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Researching the
Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada
Recherche sur la Forteresse-de-Louisbourg Lieu historique national du Canada
Descriptive
Louisbourg-Related Finding Aids and Inventories
Not Available at the Fortress of Louisbourg
By
Eric Krause
(Krause House Info-Research Solutions)
2004 to Present
HARVARD UNIVERSITY - BAKER LIBRARY
SELECT INVENTORY
This institution has research material which Louisbourg does not hold as a copied manuscript from any other institution as follows:
(A) MANUSCRIPTS ON MICROFILM
(I) Account Books of brick and pottery makers in Massachusetts, 1747-1817 (inclusive), 73-7230, Reels 2 (Mss: 605 1747-1817)
- Some building materials mentioned for the 18th century (e.g. Shingles, boards, etc., but without details)
(i) Bane + [Anies?], 1813
(ii) John Parker His Book, 1747
- Earthenware
(iii) Abraham Hews’s Book, Weston, 1780 (Mss 605 1780-1813, H613)
(iv) Robert L. Kearney, 1831
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(II) Wendell family, Business Records, 1722-1865 (inclusive), 69-0509, Reel 1 (Mss: 733, 1722-1865)
- trip to Canso
- Josuah Peirce at Canso, 1728 Ledger
- Canso, August 7, 1724
- Accounts of the Committee for Rebuilding the Boston Court Houses
- Amounts received from Wendell and others
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(III) Records of men and firms engaged in building construction, New York and New England, 1764-1876 (inclusive), Account books of house painters Daniel Rea & Son, Boston, 1764-1802, 86-3168, Reel 1 (Mss: 715 1764-1802, R 281)
- Excellent details on painting and oils
- Painting a gutter and trunk
- Painting a sign board & writing your name on it (name could be written in gold)
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(IV) Account & Records of men engaged in ocean shipping, 1733-1938 (inclusive), 92-2027, Reel 1 (Mss: 733 1733-1745 E 73, Erving, John)
(i) John Erving - General Journal belonging to John Erving, Boston, 1733-1745
- Some building materials and other examples:
(a) Boards and planks [p. 36]
(b) Boards [p. 70]
(c) Edward Milleken of Scarborough Dr to Cash paid Isaac Smith for freight of some lumber he sent to me Vizs: from John [Hill] wright Sixteen Pounds for two Thousand of Boards said Smith sold [him] together with Cash I paid Smith myself twelve Pounds which is in All, Twenty Eight Pounds .................. 28 ...." [p. 261]
(d) Boards [p. 286]
(e) 45253 Feet of Boards Bot of M.r Moore ... [p. 286]
(f) Annapolis Royal 1744 - July 9 [p. 428]
(g) September 19, 1744, Annapolis Royal
- Works
- Henry Bastide
(h) Boards (William Doake) [p. 476]
(i) Boards (William Doake) [p. 519]
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(V) John Baker Ledger, 1769-1834, 71-4597, Reel 1, (Mss: 1 1769-1834 B 167)
- Benjamin Brown
- pine & spruce shingles 1777 [1] - [p. 9]
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(VI) Nathaniel, William & Soloman Bartlett - Account Books, 1704-1865, 85-3960, Reel 6 (Mss: 1 1704-1856 B 291)
- Nothing of interest for Louisbourg
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(VII) Records of wholesale merchants, 1761-1906, The letterbook of Daniel Parker, (1781-1783) 69-5992, Reel 1 (Mss: 76`1 1781-1783 P238)
- Nothing of interest for Louisbourg
(B) ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS
(I) Melatiah Bourne Records, 1728-1803 (Mss: 733, 1727-1803 B 775)
(i) Series 1, Bourne Family, 1737-1803, Box 16
(a) Ship’s papers, schooner Lydia, voyage to Louisbourg, 1759-1760 [f. 24]
(b) Ship’s papers, schooner Lydia, voyage to Louisbourg, 1759 [f. 25]
(c) Ship’s papers, schooner Lydia, voyage to Louisbourg, 1759 [f. 26]
(d) Ship’s papers, schooner Lydia, voyage to Halifax, 1759 [f. 27]