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

1786

• July 19, 1786
  Pennsylvania Gazette (Fair Use © Accessible Gazette Inc.)

New York, July 6.

The great truths, says a correspondent, that Americans are allies to Britain, and an independent self-governing nation --- being self-evident, one would imagine reiterated assertions entirely needless; ...

... Whenever the intercourse between America, and the British West Indies, has been introduced on the tapis in the British Parliament, the enemies of American navigation have never dared to offer such an insult to the common sense of their hearers, as to pretend that the West Indies could dispense with supplies from America. However strongly inclined to exaggerate the rising consequence and manifold advantages of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, cape breton, &c. &c. it would be too glaring an absurdity to pretend that they could furnish the lumber, flour, &c. &c. it would be too glaring an absurdity to pretend that they could furnish the lumber, flour, &c. &c. necessary, in less than perhaps a century to come. ...

• August 9, 1786
  Pennsylvania Gazette (Fair Use © Accessible Gazette Inc.)

Halifax, (Nova Scotia) May 9.

... His Excellency JOHN PARR ... Captain General and Governor in Chief, in and over his Majesty's province of Nova Scotia, the islands of St. John, cape breton, and their dependencies, Vice Admiral of the same, &c. &c. ...