An Event Chronology Based on Louisbourg Accounts Not Available in the Archives of the Fortress of Louisbourg, By Eric Krause, Krause House Info-Research Solutions, 2004 - Present

1733

• 1733

[1733]

The Occasion of my drawing this Map is to shew how strong the French have Fortified  this Harbour of Louisbourg on the island Breton being all stonework. ... Minutes made in my Voyages when sent in his Maj.ties Ship Sqirrel Capt. Thomas Smart Com.r by Gov.r  by Gov.r Shute and the Hon.ble Council of y.e Massachuset bay in New England ... New England October the 30.th 1733 

[Source: Southack New England Coasting Pilot, 1733]

• December 13, 1733
  Pennsylvania Gazette (Fair Use © Accessible Gazette Inc.)

Boston ...

Extract of a Letter from New York, dated Nov. 19, 1733.

Last Week a large French Sloop arrived here from cape breton with a Captain, Lieutenant, and some other Officers of the Garrison of Lewisburgh, with a Letter from their Governor to his Excellency our Governor, desiring his Excellency to permit them to load Provisions for that Garrison, who are in great Necessity thereof, the Crops having fail'd last Summer in Canada, and the Ships from France not yet arrived; which Request (being an Act of Humanity) his Excellency by the Advice and Consent of Majesty's Council, has granted. --- 'Tis said they are starving.

• November 29, 1733
  Pennsylvania Gazette (Fair Use © Accessible Gazette Inc.)

Custom House, New York, 

Novem. 24. 

Entred in. ... Charles Boy from Lousiburg, Isle Royalle, or Cape Briton, directed hither by Monsr: St. Ovide de Brovillant, Governor of that Place, for procuring the favourable Assistance of this Government to supply the Inhabitants there with Provisions, being destitute thereof, which was permitted by His Excellency in Council ... 

Cleared.  ... Boy to Isle Royalle, for returning with the Provisions mentioned.