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Louisbourg: A Focus of Conflict
H
E 13
By
Peter
Bower
March
1970
Fortress of Louisbourg
BIBLIOGRAPHY
UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS
American
Collections
- American
Antiquarian Society. Curwen Papers.
- Boston
Athenaeum, Library of Boston, Customs House Clearances, 1744-1748 [?]
- Brown Library, John Carter. Various
Eighteenth Century Pamphlets.
- Clements
Library, W.L. George Clinton Papers; Louisbourg, Siege, 1745, [?]
- Harvard
University School of Business Administration, Baker Library, Thomas Hancock
Papers.
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Historical Society, Belknap Papers, Davis Papers, Pepperell Papers.
British
Collections:
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Record Office. Duke of Buckingham Papers.
- Mapperton
House, Beaminster. Papers of the Fourth Earl of Sandwich.
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University, Newcastle Mss.
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Office. Admiralty 1, Secretary's Department, In-Letters.
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Secretary's Department, Out-Letters.
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Secretary's Department, Minutes of the Commission for Lord High
Admiral
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Secretary's Department, Vice-Admiralty and Subordinate Offices.
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Registers, List Books showing the disposition of ships,
41
names of officers, etc., 1673-1885.
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Log Books, etc., Admiralty Journals.
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51, Log Books, etc., Captains' Logs.
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Office 5, America and West Indies, Correspondence, original, etc.
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Office 42, Canada, Correspondence, original.
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2, Registers, 1540-1957.
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41, Domestic-Military, 1637-1885.
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42, Domestic Naval.
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Papers 44, Entry Books.
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In-Letters, Treasury Board
Papers, 1557-1920.
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Out-Letters, Secretary at War.
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Registers, etc., Various, 1660-1938.
Scottish
Record Office. North Berwick Muniments.
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of Thornton Muniments, Garrison Orders of Louisbourg.
Sussex
Archaeological Society.
Canadian
Collections:
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Archives of Canada. Nova Scotia A, Transcripts of Colonial Office
Documents, various volumes.
French
Collections:
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Colonies. Série B., Lettres Envoyées, 1663-1789.
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Généra1e, Ile Royale,, 1712-1763.
- Série C11C,
Amérique du Nord.
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Collection Moreau St. Méry, 1632-1806.
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divers documents, 1721-1784.
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Colonies, Amérique Septentrionale.
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Marine. Série A1, Ordonnances, Edits, Arrêts.
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Two
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editors and A.R.M. Lower, Toronto: University Press, 1933.
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Expedition to Quebec, 1711. Gerald Graham, editor. Toronto:Champlain Society, 1954.
CONTEMPORARY
ACCOUNTS AND DESCRIPTIONS: BOOKS
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Importance of Cape Breton Demonstrated and Exemplified by Extracts from the
best Writers, French and English, who have treated of
the Colony. Anonymous. John Carter Brown Library. London: John
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the Voige in the Sloop Union. Howard M. Chapin, editor. Providence: Paul
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1745 (Lettre d'un Habitant de Louisbourg). Anonymous. George M. Wrong,
editor and translator. Toronto: Warwick Bro's & Rutter, 1897.
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Thomas. Lettres et memoires Pour servir a l'Histoire naturelle, Civile
et Politique de Cap Breton depuis Son établissement jusqu'a
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Gosse, 1760.
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Thomas. Extraordinary Events the Doings of God, and marvellous in pious
Eyes Illustrated in a Sermon... Occasion'd by Taking the City of Louisbourg on the Isle of Cape Breton, by New-England
Soldiers, assisted by a British Squadron. London. John Lewis, 1746.
- D'Ulloa, Don
Antonio. Voyage au Pérou. Two volumes. Paris: Jambert, 1752.
CONTEMPORARY
ACCOUNTS AND DESCRIPTIONS: PAMPHLETS AND COLLECTIONS
- An Accurate
Journal and Account of the Proceedings of the New-England Land-Forces,
During the late Expedition... To the Time of the Surrender of Louisbourg.
Attested to by William Pepperrell, Samuel Waldo, Samuel Moore, Simon
Lothrop and Richard Gridley. London: A. and S. Brice, 1746.
- "Expedition
to Cape Breton: Journal of the Rev. Adonijah Bidwell, Chaplainof the Fleet"
New England Historical and Genealogical Register, XXVII, (April, 1873) pp. 153-159.
- "Dudley
Bradstreet's Diary, Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings,
Second Series, X1, (June, 1897) pp. 423-446.
- "Benjamin Cleaves's Journal of the Expedition to
Louisbourg,, 1745", New England Historical and Genealogical Register,
LXVI, (April, 1912,), pp.
113-124.
- "Craft's journal of
the Siege of Louisbourg", Historical Collections of the Essex
Institute, VI, no. 5, (October, 1864) pp. 161-194.
- Journal and Letters of the late Samuel
Curwen. George Atkinson Ward, editor.
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"one of his descendants". Boston: Redding and Company, 1847.
- "Journal kept
by Lieut. Daniel Giddings of Ipswich during the Expedition against Cape
Breton in 1744-5", Historical Collections of the Essex Institute. XLVIII,
no. 4, (October, 1912) pp. 293-304.
- Benjamin
Green's Journal. This journal was incorrectly published as "The Sir
William Pepperrell Journal", American Antiquarian Society
Proceedings. XX (October, 1909) pp. 136-176. The bibliography in de
Forest, Louisbourg Journals, p. 235, noted that the journal was most
probably kept by Benjamin Green.
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Press, 1932.
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Mead & Company, 1896.
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from William Shirley, Esq; Governor of Massachusetts's To his Grace the Duke of Newcastle: with a Journal of the
Siege of Louisbourg. London: E. Owen, 1746.
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Third Series, II, (Boston, 1909), pp. 134-144. This diary is attributed to
Stearn because
the handwriting resembles other documents known to have been written by
Stearn.
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of Roger Wolcott at the Siege of Louisbourg, 1745", Collections of the Connecticut Historical
Society. I, (Hartford, 1860), pp. 131-161.
CONTEMPORARY
NEWSPAPERS
The
Louisbourg Restoration Project, National Historic Sites Service, Parks
Branch, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development,
holds selected transcripts and extracts of the following newspapers,
apparently collected from the Boston Public Library and the Massachusetts
Historical Society.
- The Boston
Evening-Post.
- Boston
Gazette.
- The Boston
Weekly News-Letter.
- The Boston Weekly Post Boy.
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Arthur H. "The Canada Expedition of 1746, its Relation to British
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1940), pp. 552-580.
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XI, no. 2, (June, 1930), pp. 105-128.
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THESES AND
UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS
- Baker, Raymond F.
The Siege of Louisbourg. Louisbourg Restoration Project,
unpublished manuscript, 1966.
- Foote, William
A. The American Units of the British Regular Army, 1664-1772.
Texas Western College: unpublished Master's thesis, 1959.
- Giasson,
Gérard. La Forteresse de Louisbourg. University of Montréal, unpublished
master's thesis, 1966.
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Artillery at Louisbourg. Louisbourg Restoration Project, unpublished
manuscript, 1967.
- Gwyn, Julian.
Admiral Sir Peter Warren, 1703-1753, his Life and Fortune. Unpublished
manuscript, 1969.
- Humphreys,
John. Royal Battery Report #2. Louisbourg Restoration Project,
unpublished manuscript,, 1964.
- The Service of
British Regiments in Canada and North America. Compiled by Charles A.
Stewart. Ottawa: Department of National Defence Library, unpublished
manuscript, 1962.
- Way, Ronald L.
Report on the Defensive Works of the King's Bastion, Fortress of Louisbourg. Louisbourg Restoration
Project, unpublished manuscript, 1962.
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