A. Magasin basement

1. Filled in with earth, gravel and sand up to ground floor level - 25 cubic toises 2 pieds 5 pouces of material used

B. Officers Rooms

1. Enduits and repairs

C. Bakery

1. Enduit repairs to the flooring and the mouth of the oven
2. Partition repaired
3. 2 pouces thick planks used for hanging shelving that have a 1 pouce board edging all planed, tongued and grooved
4. Pintles and strap hinges placed for the bakery door
5. Lock for the door
6. Repair of the door to the stairway

D. Barracks: general repairs using wood from various demolitions

1. Doors
2. Window frames and sashes
3. Shutters

E. Barracks dormers

1. Closed off with Boston boards

F. Commanders Rooms

1. 6 pieds high x 3 pieds wide plank door replacement
2. Oak door casing
3. 8 pieds high x 4 pieds wide panelled armoire placed in the room with hardware
4. Probably a dresser as well
5. 2 strap hinges with pintles, a lock and six nails for the lock of a door

G. Glass work

1. 212 glass panes cleaned and glazed with mastic
2. 542 glass panes cleaned

H. Officers Latrine

1. Lock with 2 keys installed

I. Guard House

1. Hinge replacement for the door
2. Lock replacement

J. Soldiers Rooms

1. Three (3) locks for three corridor doors

K. Flank Door

1. A lock for the door

1 L. Advanced Barrier Gate

1. Repairs to the four strap hinges
2. Two pintles supplied
3. Nails

M. Interior Barrier Gate

1. Lock and key supplied
2. Strap hinge repaired

1. Various 12 to 15 pieds depending on the sea and what it leaves behind

- Chemin Couvert

1. Height of land A 248 toises from the battery was 102 pieds 4 pouces higher than the covered

- Landward side

1. Two faces
2. A dry moat
3. A covered way
4. Two place d'armes on the flanks, one closed off partly by a revetted parapet and the other by a crenelated wall

- Barracks Roof 8 July, 1766,

1. In place

- Establishment of a redoubt on a smaller hillbetween Height A and the Royal Battery

- Chemin Couvert

1. Together with the two faces of the rentrant place d'armes, the branches require 900 8 1/2 pieds long palissades
2. Proposed covered way for the left flank requires 306- 8 1/2 pieds long palissades

- Rentrant Place D'armes

1. Together with the branches of the chemin couvert, the two faces require nine hundred 8 1/2 pieds long palissades

1. 1600 toises from the town by land
2. 750 toises from the town by sea
3. 248 toises from height of land A

- Right Flank

1. Covered way around the right flank not completed as of this date. Required

1. 769 cubic toises of earth
2. 25 cubic toises of rubblestone
3. 14 square toises of sod

1. Earth
2. Rubblestone work
3. Brick work
4. Crepissage a pierre apparente
5. Cut stone work
6. Joist-work
7. 3 pouces thick merisier planks
8. Slate roofing work
9. Shingle roofing work
10. Sod work
11. Joinery work
12. Hardware work
13. Glass work

- Demolition of the Royal Battery with its re-establishment on Pointe a Rosse on Height A

1. Right face: 10
2. Left face: 10
3. Eperon: 2 per flank (4 in total)
4. Right [sic] flank: 6
5. Left [sic] flank: 2

- Existing platform of the faces and Eperon in poor condition

1. Totally cover the terreplain so that there was no banquette from one embrasure to another
2. Platforms of the flanks are trapezium

A. Two faces

1. 137 sleepers, 18 pieds long, 9 x 8 pouces
2. 67 toises 4 pieds long x 18 pieds wide o f 3 pouces thick planks
3. Nails where 5 weigh 2 livres "poids de Mare"

B . Epèron

1. 22 sleepers of assorted lengths (49 toises 3 pieds total length), 9 x 8 pouce thick
2. 4 toises 4 pieds 6 pouces 1ong x 21 pieds wide of 3 pouces thick planks
3. Nails where 5 weigh 2 livres "poids de Mare"

C. Two Flanks

1. 8 trapezium platforms as previously requiring 147 solives 0 pied 8 pouces for sleeper
2. 60 square toises of 3 pouces thick planks
3. Nails where 5 weigh 2 livres "poids de Mare"

1. "in the harbour of Louisbourg ... Beginning three hundred feet from High Water mark, at the Head of a Cove which lies about half a mile to the Eastward of the Grand Battery; and from thence to run West ten chains; thence North West one hundred and fifty eight chains; thence North eight hundred and eighty chains; thence South West one hundred and fifty eight chains; thence West ten chains till it meets the first mentioned boundary ..."

1. "Plan et Elevation de la batterie Royale"
2. "Plan et Elevation d'une Guerrette de la batterie Royale"
3. "Plan et Coupe d'une Guerrette Executée a la batterie Royale"

1. now easy to move cannons to the flanks if required

- Francis Piggot (English Ship Pilot) in Louisbourg for 6 weeks

1. "the Grand Battery is repaired"
2. No alterations made to the Grand Battery on the land side between 1745 and 1755

- Masonry merlons revetted in wood

- 3 June: demolition process begins

- 8 June: formal request made to demolish the Royal Battery

1. Orders given to make the platforms inoperative
2. Orders given to burn the "maison"
3. By, evening only the towers of the battery remained
4. Use powder, sulphur and tar in the demolition
5. French have dismantled it
6. French completely overturned the Right face parapet or breast wall
7. Barrack's roof burned
8. Barrack's floors burned
9. Flanking towers' coverings burned
10. Masonry of barracks not greatly damaged however

- Mount a small guard as a cover for the Men of Wars using the watering place and to discourage the Indians from approaching the sides and head of the harbour

- "Ruins of the late grand Battery"

 - A plan of the Grand Battery as it was rebuilt by the English in the year 1759 at Louisbourg  

- grand Battreay [sic]

1. The works of the Grand Battery are almost down
2. Towers still to be destroyed with a few explosives
3. Navy hospital [i.e. barracks] preserved
4. November 3: "one of ye Towrs at Ye grand Battrey Was Blowen"
5, November 5: "also ye other tower at ye Artillery grand battrey was sprung." 
6. November 5: the demolition of the Royal Battery completed

1. Commander in Chief in Nova Scotia renewed the original 1751 D'Arrigrand grant of land
 

1. Lawrence Kavanagh

- fishing flakes
- stage
- 2 small houses
- fenced in about 5 acres of land

2. Thomas & Richard Wheel

- fenced about 5 acres near the Grand Battery

3. Thomas Mortho

- fenced in about 5 acres a little beyond the Barachois on the north side of the road towards the Grand Battery.

4. William Brimigion

- fenced in about 3 acres on the south side of the road leading to the Grand Battery

5. Matthew Rowe

- fenced in about 3 acres adjoining to William Brimigion

6. Gregory Townsend

- fenced in with a good stone wall about 2 acres near the Grand Battery

7. Elias Gerrot

- fenced in 10 acres of land in the cove a little beyond the Grand Battery
- fish flakes
- stage
- small house

- Lots

- Thomas-& Richard Wheeler, Thomas Mortho, John Moss, William Brimingion, Matthew Rowe, Gregory Townsend and William Russell owned 3-5 acre lots which they had fenced in, were in the NorthEast Harbour, near the Grand Battery or on the road leading to the Battery.

- to George Cottnam

-  ... also a tract of land beginning at the North eastern part of the Grand Battery thence to run north forty-five degrees west, one hundred and ten chains thence south, forty-five degrees East, seventy chains to the Barrisoi [sic] at the head of the Harbour of Louisbourg. These to be bounded by the ... several courses of the said Harbour to the bounds first mentioned, containing ... about six hundres acres more or less.

- is fenced in, as likewise most of the streets in the Town between the Baraswa and the Eastern most part of the Grand Battery. I have temporary Grant for altho I [George Cottnam] never made any use of it, but left it for a Common [.] to the East Ward of that [.] Mr. Russell has some Land which he bought from one Gerrot. There is adjoining that about four hundred acres of Land belonging to one Frincis Wildo (.) Part of the Estate belonging to the late Mr. Degegrand a Frenchman ...