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

1774

• May 18, 1774
  Pennsylvania Gazette (Fair Use © Accessible Gazette Inc.)

London, April 9.

... The word war brings to my mind another transgression of these wicked Bostonians. They very simply imagining it would be for the advantage of Britain, conquered cape breton in the war before the last: And we restored it, without indemnifying them, so far as I have heard, for their expence. These very miscreants continued a greater number of men constantly in arms, during the last war, than they were required to do; ;and most cruelly injured us, in a very essential manner, by sending to the Havanna a supply of men, without whose aid that city had not been taken, nor our exhausted troops carried off in safety. As a just punishment on the Gentleman who conducted that supply, to the ruin of his own fortune, he remained here for several years in a starving condition; and, as if a general infatuation had at that time seized all ranks of people, even the then House of Commons returned thanks to that people for these exertions of Loyalty.Yours, &c.

April 5, 1774. COMMON SENSE.

• August 16, 1774
  Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle [Atlantic Canada Newspaper Survey - CHIN PRECIS]

[August 16, 1774]

[PRECIS]

[400 ACRES OF LAND, BEING PART OF 25,000 ACRES GRANTED TO GRAHAM DE ARRIGRAND. MOST OF THE 400 ACRES ARE CLEARED AND WERE LATELY OCCUPIED BY ANTHONY RODERICK. NO HOUSE ON THE LAND. ENQUIRE HENRY BALDWIN, HALIFAX. ...]

• September 13, 1774
  Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle [Atlantic Canada Newspaper Survey - CHIN PRECIS]

[September 13, 1774]

[PRECIS]

[Business: DE ARRIGRAND, GRATIAN, MR.-GRANTEE; RODRICH, ANTHONY, MR.-TENANT?; BALDWIN, HENRY, MR.-LAND AGENT?-ADVERTISER?

Description: TO SET OR SELL 400 ACRES 1 MILE NORTH OF GRAND BATTERY NEAR LOUISBOURG(SIC) HARBOUR, BEING PART OF DE ARRIGRAND'S 20000 ACRE GRANT UNDER SEAL OF GREAT BRITAIN. LAND MOSTLY CLEARED, FORMERLY OCCUPIED BY RODRICH AND OTHERS, LACKS HOUSE BUT ONE AVAILABLE NEARBY. FOR PARTICULARS SEE BALDWIN IN HALIFAX. ]

• September 28, 1774
  Pennsylvania Gazette (Fair Use © Accessible Gazette Inc.)

New York, September 26.

Yesterday morning at 7 o'clock, died in this city, Major General JOHN BRADSTREET, well known for his distinguished military services in America, and especially in the last reduction of Louisbourg and Cadaracqui, in 1757. His remains are to be interred this afternoon, with the honour due to his elevated rank. ...

• November 7, 1774

[November 7, 1774]

On Complaint made by M^r. Cottnam the Chief Magistrate of Louisbourg that several building materials had been moved from Louisbourg to St. Peters on the Isle of Breton by M^r. Lawrence Kavanagh also referring for further information to M^r. Hunter Commanding of His Majesty's Arm'd Vessell The Gaspee, together with a Copy of a deposition to the Fact.

• November 9, 1774
  Pennsylvania Gazette (Fair Use © Accessible Gazette Inc.)

[November 9, 1774]

Remainder of the ADDRESS to the INHABITANTS of the COLONIES.

... Such was the conduct of the people of the Massachusetts Bay during the last war. As to their behaviour before that period, it ought not to have been forgot in Great Britain, that not only on every occasion they had constantly and chearfully complied with the frequent royal requisitions - but that chiefly by their vigorous efforts, Nova Scotia was subdued in 1710, and Louisbourg in 1745. ....