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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
H H 19
By
Fortress of Louisbourg
(Glenn Lucas)
c. 1964
Fortress of Louisbourg
Preface
All series in this binder have been searched except the Huntington Library and the Library of Congress. [signed] Glenn Lucas
[Editor's
Note:]
To ascertain which repository yielded Louisbourg material for the Fortress
of Louisbourg Collection, please check the following
databases:
Published
Monographs -
MONOGRAPHS
HOLDINGS / MONOGRAPHIES (Books, and Articles, in a Printed or
Microform Format / Livres et articles)
Published
Serials -
SERIALS
HOLDINGS / JOURNAUX, REVUES ET PERIODIQUES (Serials and Periodicals,
in a Printed or Microform Format)
American
Antiquarian Society
185 Salisbury St, Worcester, Massachusetts
1. A diary, Louisbourg
2. Sir Wm. Pepperell - A journal of the expedition against Louisbourg, 1745, 1 vol.
3. Curwen family papers 1640-1796 Ms 62-4507.
4. Letters relating to the French Indian War 1754-1774 11 volumes MS 62-3084
5. Hancock family papers 1735-1750 MS 62-3082
6. John Bradstreet correspondence 1755--1773.
7. Papers relating to the State of Maine 1640-182 MS 62-3081
8. Robert Hale papers -1755
9. Waldo family papers, 1757-1840 13 volumes and 2 boxes MS 62-3166
10. Cornelius Cuyler Letter books, 1724-1736, 1752-1764 MS 62-3219
11. Papers relating to Scituate Mass, 1707-1791 MS 62-3193
12.Logbook collection 28 volumes ms 62-3194
13.Thomas Allen papers, 1737-1835 MS 62-3204
14. Sewall family papers, 1634-1905 MS 62-3215
15. Papers relating to Worcester County, Mass. 1719-1873 9 boxes MS 62-3170
16. Papers relating to Worcester, Mass. 1686-1949 16 boxes MS 62-3172
17. Dwight Foster papers 1750-1884 MS 62-3093
18. Goddard family papers 1713-1867 MS 62-3097
19. Mather family papers, 1596-1785 MS 62-3124
20. Dudley, Massachusetts. Town records, 1747-1859 MS 62-3210
21.Nathan Fiske papers 1754-1798 7 volumes MS 62-3184
22.Ward family papers, 1661-1885 17 volumes and 38 boxes MS 62-3l86
23. Bullard family papers, 1724-1842 2 boxes MS 62-3189
24. John Sprague paper, 1713-1815 MS 62-3218
25. Wm. Henshaw papers, 1735-1820 MS 62-3275
26. Papers relating to Massachusetts, 1639-18767 3 volumes and 4 boxes MS 62-4845
27. Papers of the Shaw and Webb family, 1756-1881 MS 62-4484
28. Isaiah Thomas papers, 1754-1831 MS 62-3077
29.Thomas Walcut papers, 1762-1832 MS 62-3008
30. Salisbury family papers, 1674-1905 MS 62-3072
31. Anthony Haswell Papers MS 62-3060
32.Thomas Penn Letters, 1752-1772 MS 62-4793
Amherst College Library
1. Amherst papers 1759-1782, 78 feet and 123 reels of microfilm (ca. 80,000 items)
American Philosophical Society Library
1. Shippen family papers, 1750-1791
2.Vaughan family papers, 1746 ...
3 James Burd papers
Boston Athenaam
1. Wm. Shirley Family Memoranda
City of Boston
1. 14th Report of the Record Commission p.68
2. 14th Report of the Record Commission p. 72
3. 14th Report of the Record Commission p. 83
4. 14th Report of the Record Commission pp. 84-85
5. 14th Report of the Record Commission pp.118, 122, 124
6. 16th Report of the Record Commission p. 15
Boston Public Library
Louisbourg materials in the Boston Public Library [in print]
1. The case of H. M.'s Province of the Mass. Bay in New England with respect to the expenses they were at in the taking and securing Cape Breton. London 1746? 4 pp. 39 1/2 in. no title page H.81.8
2. The following is a perfect list of the establishments of officers and men in the expedition .... Broadside [ Boston 1745] 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. H.90a.511
3. New Hampshire, Gov. Wentworth
4. New Hampshire, Gov. Wentworth
5. Richard Daton.
6. Massachusetts Acts and Laws.
7. Carter, Robert Goldthwaite
8. Chamberlain collection
9. Compte-rendu de Desherbiers chargé de la reprise de possession de Louisbourg -- 29 Juin 1749 G.41.26
10. Mémoire concernant les limites du Canada 1720 par le Sr. Bobé prête de la Congrégation de la Mission. G.41.32
11. Maréchal d'estrées Janvier 1720
12. Abbé Raynal - Lettre sur l'Amérique Septentrionale. Recueils des mots et des Réflexions en désordre. G.34.14
John
Carter Brown Library
Brown University
1. Brown family, Business records, 1750-1900
Newberry
Library,
60 West Walton Place, Chicago.
Edward E. Ayer Collection
1. 1702-1750 Collection de mémoires concernant le possessions françaises; quatre volumes de copies anciennes, avec cartes [pour ces dernières, voir le catalogue publié Manuscript maps in the Edward E. Ayer Collection 1927]
The Newberry Library has two reels of microfilm .....
Volume 1
Volume 2.
Volume 3.
Volume 4.
2. General Assembly of New Hampshire
3. 1752 April 20th. Voyage of the Sieur du Franquet au port La joye, au hâvre de St. Pierre, au port des trois Rivières de l'isle St. Jean, à la Baye Verte, à Beauséjour, au fort de Gaspereau sur le Continent du Canada et au port Toulouze de L'isle Royalle 84 pages. Copie (299)
4. 1757 été - 1758, 10 juillet Reports concerning the surrender of Fort William Henry the proposed evacuation of Fort Edward, the fall of Louisbourg etc .... (754) (two pages in length).
5. 1758, May 28 - July 26th. Journal of the Siege of Louisbourg by Lieut. Augustus Gordon. 90 Pages (333a)
Chicago
Historical Society
Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois
Documents relating to Louisbourg ...
1. 1716, octobre, 8me. Reconnaissance des Pères Récollets commes missionnaires en l'Isle Royale (Cap-Breton) ; signé par De Costebelle.
2. 1749, octobre 23. Ordre de LaJonquière à Hertel de partir pour Louisbourg ...,
Wm.
L. Clements Library
Ann Arbor, Mich.
1. George Clinton papers 1697-1759 22 volumes
2. Henry Clinton papers 1750-1812 260 volumes [First two volumes checked]
3. Gage papers 1754-1783 180 volumes
4. Germain papers 1683-1785 22 volumes
5. Henry Hamilton papers 1754-1789 2 volumes [ two journals in photostat, three reports, eight letters. Served at Louisbourg, Quebec .... etc.] [originals at harvard]
6. Knox papers 1757-1809 11 volumes
7. Siege of Louisbourg 1745-1746 1 volume [ 23 letters and documents]
8. Melville papers 1728-1830 30 volumes
9. Mildmay papers 1748-1756 7 volumes
10. Miscellaneous manuscripts 1570-1938 22 volumes
11. Nova Scotia 1762-1776 1 volume
12. Pitt papers 1750-1830 5 volumes
13. Shelburne papers 1663-1797 179 volumes [Checked quickly]
14.Sydney papers 1685-1829 15 volumes
15.Townshend letter books 1767-1772 7 volumes
16. Warren papers 1744-1751 4 volumes
17. Amherst papers 1758-1764 8 volumes
18. Great Britain: Army in America Army records 1758-1824
19. Dalton family records 1693-1852 [colonial merchant family]
20. North papers 1763-1783
21. Jonathan Parsons sermons 1737-1761 [He preached at Lyme, Conn. and Newburyport, Mass. during these years]
22. Robert Rogers papers 1759-1832
23. Sir Francis Bernard's answers to queries of the Board of Trade ca. 1763
24. Shaw family business records 1745-1850 40 items MS 62-207
25. Military papers 1540-1865 [partly transcripts and photocopies] MS 62-2077
26. Official records 1493-1853 ca.50 items and 10 volumes
27. James Furnis letters 1755-1758
28. Lansdowne papers 1663-1797
29. Stopford-Sackville papers
30. Knox manuscripts
31. Admiral Douglas
32. Mildmay papers.
Columbia University Libraries
1. Ellison family papers 1733-1782
2. John Waite papers 1743-1799
3. Ebenezer Kneeland Sermons 1770-1797
Connecticut
State Library
Hartford, Connecticut
1. Papers of the Allyn and Wolcott families 1646-1797
2. Diaries 1653-1945
3. Account books 1659-1900
4. Sermons
5. Shipping papers
6. Wadsworth family papers 1718-1871
Connecticut
Historical Society
1 Elizabeth St., Hartford, Connecticut
1. Judd Diary
2. Records of Connecticut troops in the French and Indian Wars
3. Oliver Wolcott papers 1747-1834
4. Roger Wolcott's Journal of the siege of Louisbourg
5. Rev. E. K. Kneeland's Diary [Stratford, Conn.] Trinity College?
6. Reuban Smith Diary. Mrs. Samuel McCutcheon. Farmington, Conn. [677-1778]
Old
Dartmouth Historical Society
18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, Mass
1. Logbooks of various vessels 1745-1922
Dedham
[Massachusetts] Historical Society
612 High St., Dedham
1. Nathaniel Ames diaries 1758-1821
Essex
Institute
Salem, Massachusetts
132 Essex St.
1. Curwen family papers 4 volumes
2. Benjamin Craft papers 1745-1777 MS 62-3701
Letters from Craft to his wife about the Louisbourg expedition; a journal of the 1745 expedition.
3. Derby family papers 1715-1858 MS 62-3546
Merchants of Salem. There is material on Louisbourg [Volumes XXVIII, I]
4. Cleaveland family papers 1742-1891 ca. 48 vols. MS 62-3387
5. Papers of the Town and Bragg families 1 Box MS 62-4501
6. Thomas Bancroft papers 1742-1808 1 envelope MS 62-3673
7. James Bott papers 1755-1832 MS 62-3679
8. Benjamin Bradstreet papers 1729-1765 MS 62-3680
9. Joseph Bowditch 4 boxes MS 62-3681
10. Bowen family papers 1759-1808 3 volumes MS 62-36 62
11. Clarke Papers 1755-1839 1 portfolio MS 62-3693
12. Samuel Chandler. Almanacs, diaries 1746-1772 MS 62-3696
13. David Ashby papers 1804-1830 MS 62-3663
14. John D. Treadwell papers 1741-1835 1 box
15. Tucker family papers 1680-1848 3 Volumes, 1 box
16. Elijah Upton papers 16911-1896 4 vols. 1 envelope
17. Ward family business papers 1709-1883 15 volumes
18. Andrew Gould papers 1742-1875 1 envelope
19. John Touzell papers 1682-1785 1 volume and 1 box
20. Hacket, Richard papers 1737-1791
21. Hathorne family papers 2 Volumes MB 62-3581
22. Drury family papers 1739-1838 4 volumes
13. Philip English papers 1665-1773 MS 3561
24. John H. Andrews papers 1719-1874 MS 62-3372
25. Bartlett family papers from 1728 MS 62-3506
26. Benjamin F. Brown 1678-1873 1 volume and 1 package
27. Cabots family Mss 1742-1833 3 volumes and 1 package
28. Croufinshield Family
29. John Coffin papers [of Newbury] 6 volumes 1647-1862 Volumes 1 & 2
[Check if the following is at the Essex Institute]
Account Book of Mark How. Philemon How of Ipswich, Mass, aged 17, died of fever at Louisbourg. June 16th 1759.
PRINTED COLLECTION, ESSEX INSTITUTE
1. Craft's Journal, Vol. 6, p. 181.
2. Essex County Soldiers, 1755-1767
3. Journal of Gibson Clough at Louisbourg 1759-1760, Vol. 3: 99, 195.
4. Journal of Lieut Dan'l Giddings in Louisbourg Expedition 1744-1745, Vol. 48:293
5. Letters from Capt. George Curwin on Louisbourg Expedition. Vol. 3: 186.
6. Military records of Chebacco Parish Ipswich 1744-1748. Vol. 49: 95
Forbes
Library
Northampton, Massachusetts
1. Seth Pomeroy papers 1700-1912 [?]
2.Collection miscellaneous military papers ca.1690-1865 MS 62-3373
3. Genealogical and biographical materials ca. 285 items MS 62-3370
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
1. Account books, Jacobs family 1751-1818
2. French West India papers 1712-1757
3. Records of miscellaneous business enterprizes 17th to 18th centuries
4. Clifford family papers 1722-1832
5. Simon Gratz papers Commercial records 1699-1835
6. Lewis Family papers 1755-1890
7. Churchmen and clergymen, autographs 1647-1921
8. John Hughes papers 1725-1818
9. Ship register books 1722-1726 [Pennsylvania colony]
10. John Nixon papers Philadelphia merchant 1707-1845
11. John Ashurst papers 1699-1865
12. John Stamper letter book 1751-1770
13. Diaries and journals 1684-1930 [highly unlikely]
14.Dutilh and Wachsmuth records 1704-1846
15. Collection of Orderly Books [1775-1861] 49 vols.
Huntington
Library
San Marino, California
1. Canadiana (1642 - 1900) 257 items
2. Abercromby papers (1674 - 1787) ca. 1000 items
3. Loudoun papers (1682 - 1790) ca. 8060 items
4. Great Britain. War Office Records 1750-1814 ca. 850 items MS 61-1840
5. William Blathwayt papers 1657-1770 461 items MS 61-1438
6. Sir. Geo. Pocock correspondence 1733-1793 1170 items
7. Hastings Manuscript
Kittery
Point
Maine
1. Diary of John Storer of Wells, Me.
Lady
Pepperrell House
Kittery Point
1. Field return of General Pepperrell's regiment at Louisbourg 2nd June 1746
Library Of Congress
1. Gilbert Budd Diary
2. Monkton papers (1754 - 63) 1 Vol.
3. Reduction of Louisbourg, 1745 Peter Force library 1 Vol.
4. Receipts, accounts, etc. for fortification and construction work at Cape Breton, Louisbourg, under the chief engineer, British Army, 1 vol. (1921).
5. Roger Wolcott, Letter to Hon. James Hamilton, 13 March, 1754
6. Roger Wolcott Journal, 1745
7. Undated manuscript [apparently 1745]
8. Barnard family papers 1714-1901 ca 1100 items MS 62-4621
9. Hale family papers 1698-1914 MS 59-139
10. Edward Preble papers 1680-1809
11. Wadsworth family papers 1730-1952 [?] 7000 items MS 62-4853
12. Samuel Holten papers 1744-1843 MS 59-32
13. Edmond Charles Genet papers 1756-1895 MS 59-224
14. Papers of the Morris and Popham families 1667-1892 MS 59-254
15. Joseph Hodges Choate papers 1745-1927 MS 60-26
Maine
Historical Society
485 Congress Street, Portland Maine
1. Sir William Pepperell, personal papers (1716 - 1803) 1 vol. and 1 package
2. Samuel Waldo papers (1631 - 1828) 2 volumes and 1 map collection.
3. Waite Sea Journal Columbia University Libraries
By Capt. John Waite of Falmouth (Portland). Me.
4. Andrew Hawes of Stroudwater collection
5. Miscellaneous Collection
Maine
State Library
Augusta, Me.
1. Papers of Sir Wm Pepperrell
2. Jonathan Darling Journal. Printed in the Bangor Historical Magazine II, 76-8 October 1886. Location of the original unknown. Bluehill Maine 1895
Marblehead
Historical Society
161 Washington Street
1. Diaries 18th and 19th centuries
Ashley Bowen
Massachusetts
Historical Society
1154 Bolyston St., Boston
[The
following series or collections of papers at the MHS
have all been searched. In the following, material relating
to the Louisbourg project was found.]
1. Otis papers
2.Photostats
3.Thomas papers
4. Broadsides
5.C.E. French papers
6. Gilman papers
7. C. P. Greenough papers
8. Miscellaneous boxes 1736-1747, 1748-1759
9. Miscellaneous bound papers
10. Henry Knox papers Volume L
11. Sedgewick papers
12. Savage papers
13. Cushing papers
14. Norcross papers
15. Williams papers
16. John Hancock papers
17. Parkman papers
18. Gay transcripts
Mascarene papers
[There are only five volumes in the series]
19. Mascarene family papers 1687-1839
20.Pepperrell papers
[The
following collections have been checked
at the Massachusetts Historical Society and have
nothing relating to Louisbourg]
21. Colman papers
22. Edes papers
23. Frost papers
24. Gerry papers
25. Coffin papers
26. John and Jacob Wendell papers
27. Washburn manuscripts
[The
following series all contain Louisbourg
material and have been searched]
28. Winslow papers
29. Louisbourg papers
30. T. Saunders papers
31. Belknap papers
Massachusetts State Archives
[The
following volumes at the
Massachusetts State Archives have been checked]
New
Gloucester Historical Society
Maine
1. Early documents 1736-1837
New
Hampshire Historical Society
30 Park St. Concord
1. Waldron Papers - On microfilm at Louisbourg office
2. Louisbourg court martials - On microfilm at Louisbourg office
3. Vaughan papers
4. Article by Fred H. Betts taken from the N.Y. Society for Colonial Wars entitled "The Second Capture of Louisbourg" History Papers No. 4, 1899 New York Society of Colonial Wars.
New Jersey Historical Society Library
1. Lewis Morris papers 1730-1746
2. Andrew Bell papers 1742-1850
3. Ship's logs collection 1732-1839
4. Robert Hunter Morris papers 1734-1758
5. Boggs family papers 1750-1912
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
1. Gorham's Journal 1745-1746. [In the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Volume 29 p.45]
2. Gorham's "Waste Book" See N.E.H.G.R.
New
York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
1. Sir Charles Hardy papers (1755 - 1777) 1 folder
2. Papers relating to Massachusetts (1663 - 1815) 1 folder
3. Papers relating to the French and Indian War (1744 - 1779) ca. 1000 items.
4. Warren family papers 1639-1795 2 volumes MS 62-211
5. Bradstreet family papers 1703-1855 MS 60-2160
6. Delancey family papers 1647-1804 MS 60-2165
7. Wendell family papers 1708-1829 MS 60-2547
8. Ship's records 1660-1883 MS 60-3088
9. Townsend family papers 1751-1854 MS 60-2247
10. Sanders family papers [18th Century merchants] MS 60-2305
11. Charles Nicoll Business records 1753-1779 MS 60-2308
12.Papers relating to Boston 1674-1840 MS 60-2913
13.Papers relating to Connecticut 1663-1822 MS 60-2929
14 Papers relating to Windham Co., Conn. 1724-1836 MS 60-3087
15.Gerard Beekman papers 1752-1770 MS 61-1579
16. Greg and Cunningham letter book 1756-1757 MS 61-1580
17. Bayard family papers 1710-1845 MS 60-2161
18. Samuel Deall, Merchant of New York City MS 60-1878
19. Bancker family papers 1718-1824 MS 60-1925
20. Papers relating to Canada 1694-1825
21. Receipt books 1749-1878 ca. 40 vols. MS 61-230
22. Account books 1678-1899 MS 61-220
23. Livingston family papers 1716-1808 MS 60-2602
New York Public Library
Mss. Papers relative to Canada 1692-1792
Collection
Emmet collection
Miscellaneous Collection
Museum of the City of New York
1. .Livingston family papers 1719-1873
Peabody
Museum
Salem, Mass.
161 Essex St.
1. Journal kept at Louisbourg 1759-1760 by Jonathan Procter of Danvers.
Pepperrell
papers
Collections
of papers of Sir Wm. Pepperrell are held
by the following institutions and
societies
1. .Maine State Library, Augusta
2. Maine Historical Society
3.New York Public Library, Emmet Collection
4. Massachusetts Historical Society
5. New England Historical and Genealogical Society
6. Portsmouth Atheneum
7. Boston Public Library, Chamberlain collection
8. Henry Parsons, Riverhurst, Kennebunk, Me.
9. Dr. E. E. E. Shapleigh. Kittery Point, Me.
10. Alonzo Wildes, Kittery Point, Me.
11. [?] Frost, Kittery Point, Me.
12. Henry H. Taylor, Bridgeport, Conn. [30 January, 1933]
13. Charles Service, Kittery Point, Me.
Pierpont Morgan Library
Portsmouth
Athenaeum
New Hampshire
1. Larkin papers 1753-1798
2. Pierce papers
3. Papers of Sir Wm. Pepperrell
Princeton University Library
1. The William Pepperrells: Colonial Merchants
Ph.D. Thesis. Princeton (1948). Bibliography (?)
Richard
Salter Storrs Library
Longmeadow, Massachusetts
1. Stephen Williams diaries 1715-1782 MS 62-4444
There is a diary of the first siege of Louisbourg
2. Samuel Colton business records 1749-1796 MS 62-3287
Yale University
1. Clinton family papers 1754-1864 5000 items
Louisbourg Relics
1. Salem Mass
2. Mantle-piece now in Charleston, South Carolina
3. Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 141 Cambridge St., Boston
4. York Maine
Society for the Preservation of Historic Landmarks in York County, 65 Lindsay Road
5. Portsmouth Historical Society
6. Salem Historical Society
7. 1925. Geo. W. Smith Co. Inc [N.Y.]
Eleanor M. Grieve Pres Scarsdale, N.Y.
Auth H. Grieve V.P.
Robt. J. C. Hingel Sec
Robt. F. Greacen Treas. Scarsdale
Rare Books 8 E 45th St
8. 1935
Robert F. Greacen 78 Wall St.
Robt. J. C. Hingel, New York
Public Library, 476 5th Ave.
A. Grieve, 970 Lexington Ave.
9. 1964
Robert F. Greacen, Whitehall, 4-5858, 80 Wall St.
10. Capt. Edward Whitmore, Barry St. Edmunds
2 trunks of papers shipped to him in August 1763 plus furniture from Louisbourg.
Original Diaries
1. Reuben Smith Diary, Original owned by Julius Gay of Farmington, Conn., in 1923. Unpublished.
2. Joshua Winslow Diary, Original owned by James Trott of Niagara Falls, N,Y, in 1923.
3. Dummer Sewall Diary, Original owned by Harold M. Sewall of Bath, Maine in 1923.
4. George Mygate Diary Original owned by Charles S. Merrick, Wilbraham, Mass. in 1923
5. Ammi Cutter Diary, Original owned in 1871 by Ralph C. Cutter of Brooklyn, New York.
Louisbourg Diaries
Massachusetts
Maine
New York
Connecticut