Historical documents
Ways French try to surpass British include linking Canada and Louisiana through wheat- and lead-rich Great Lakes province called "Hanois(e)"[3]
Intendant says Canadians "have a too-high opinion of Themselves [to achieve] the success they are capable of in the arts, Agriculture and Commerce"[4]
French priest gets tough with shipwreck victims, calling their despair criminal in eyes of God, to whom they should offer their pain[5]
Shipwrecked priest learns respect for Indigenous people "whom a false prejudice makes us suppose incapable of thinking or reasoning"[6]
Ship carrying sugar from Jamaica to London loses 17 drowned plus one of three who made it to shore after it wrecks on Sable Island[7]
Minas Indigenous people are accused of forcing sloop captain and crew to give up trade cargo worth £1,546 New England currency[8]
Pre-teen servant confesses to intentionally burning his master's house, and Council delays judgment pending legal advice from Boston[9]
Board of Trade submits proposal for settlement of Nova Scotia under trustee-appointed council until assembly and government can be established[10]
Unemployed London carpenters and other artisans request free passage to and 200-acre grants in 14-miles-square township in Nova Scotia[11]
King's rent collector must: take in quit-rents, fines and arrearages; note all sales, exchanges and wills; and "take a Particular Account" of strangers[12]
In Nova Scotia, "all discoverers of mines or minerals [will have] an equal share with those who own and work them"[13]
Noting his seizure of smugglers' ship in Newfoundland, Navy captain hopes new admiralty court there will end such long-practised trade[14]
Mission society has missionaries at Trinity Bay, Newf. and Albany, N.Y. ("to the Mohawk-Indians") and schoolmasters at Annapolis Royal and Canso[15]
Trinity Bay can't support its missionary after "catching little Fish for two or three Voyages, and selling at a bad Market"[16]
Massachusetts governor gives brief details of military assets in Canada, and warns of danger to trade and Indigenous relations[17]
Gov. Belcher reports good results from talks and local contacts with Penobscot, citing benefit of "honestly and justly" observing treaties[18]
New York lieutenant governor will meet Six Nations to renew treaties and "keep them from" allowing French fort in Seneca country[19]
N.Y. lieutenant governor reports complaint from Gov. Beauharnois and query to Oswego officer about shooting at French canoe passing by[20]
Arthur Dobbs calls Hudson's Bay Company's 1736 bid to find Northwest Passage "idle or faulty," and company "unwilling to make the Attempt"[21]
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