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Researching the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada
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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

1771

[May 20, 1771]

"Sandy Creek Camp Tuesday May 20th 1771. 
Parole - Cape Britain. Countersign - Louisbourg ..."

[William L Saunders, editor, The Colonial Records of North Carolina (Raleigh: Josephus Daniels, 1890), Volume VIII, 1769 to 1771, pp. 574-607]

[October 17, 1771]

THIS is to give Notice to Mr. ROBERT ERWIN, Shoemaker, and his Sister MARY ERWIN, the Children of Gavin Erwin, and Mary Erwin, of Cork, in Ireland (this Robert Erwin was born in the Garrison of Gibraltar, and Mary in the Garrison of Louisbourg) to repair immediately to Philadelphia, where their Mother arrived the First of this instant October, and is at a Loss, not knowing where to direct to them. I beg of all good People that may hear or known of them, to inform them, that I am to be met with at Mr. Robeson, in Pewter Platter Alley, Philadelphia.

MARY ERWIN.

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