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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

1767

• May 7, 1767
  Pennsylvania Gazette (Fair Use © Accessible Gazette Inc.)

[May 7, 1767]

To the PUBLIC in GENERAL, And to all masters of vessels, returning from Quebec, Louisburgh, and Newfoundland, in particular. THAT in Spanish river, in the island of cape breton, where there is a good harbour, they may be supplied with any quantity of excellent coals, delivered along side, at the rate of Three Dollars per chaldron, by applying to Mr. William Lloyd; who will attend there, from the last of June, to the last of October, and will give the greatest dispatch. For further particulars, enquire of ALEXANDER LUNAN, in Philadelphia.

• June 4, 1767
  Pennsylvania Gazette (Fair Use © Accessible Gazette Inc.)

London, March 11, 1767.

REMARKS on the REPORT published in our last Paper. By B.F. Esquire. IN the report of the Board of Trade, dated February 9, 1764, the following reasons are given for restraining the emission of paper bills of credit in America, as a legal tender.

... Also in New England, when much greater quantities were issued than was necessary for a medium of trade, to defray the expedition against Louisbourg; ... 

... The Massachusetts were therefore not dissatisfied with the restraint as it restrained their neighbours as well as themselves; and perhaps they do not desire to have the act repealed. They have not yet felt much inconvenience from it, as they were enabled to abolish their paper currency by a large sum paid them in silver from Britain, to reimburse them their expence in taking Louisbourg, which, with the gold brought from Portugal by means of their fish, kept them supplied with a currency, till the late war furnished them and all America with bills of exchange, so that little cash was needed for remittance. ...

• May 28, 1767
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Boston, May 14.

... We learn from Louisburgh, that the winter past was extremely severe there, and so intensely cold, that boiling Water, placed in the open Air, was frozen to a solid Ice in 25 Seconds. ...

• December 10, 1767
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... Nov. 30. [Boston]

Last Sunday we had here another very violent storm, attended with snow, which it is feared has been destructive to the vessels which might then be on the coast. --- We hear that Captain McFarland, in a sloop belonging to John Hancock, Esq; which sailed from hence for London the day before, was cast away at a place called Welfleet, on Cape Cod, and that the vessel and most of her cargoe would be lost, but the people saved. --- We also hear that a snow from Jamaica for Marblehead, and a schooner from Louisbourg, were ashore near the same place, but would be got off again; also that a sloop from the West Indies, bound to Casco Bay, was lost on the back of the Cape, and the Captain and three of the people drowned ...

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