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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

Finding Aids and Inventories Not Available 
at the Fortress of Louisbourg

By Eric Krause

Krause House Info-Research Solutions

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Taken from : FINDING AID FOR LOUISBOURG MATERIALS IN THE MARYLAND STATE ARCHIVES
Extracted by Eric Krause, Krause House Info-Research Solutions, February 6, 2002 Louisbourg Library Report 2002-09

The published archival records of the Maryland Government are available on line in searchable format at [http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/html/index.html]. A search will produce two results: A copy in OCR (Optical Character Recognition) format and a tiff image of the original published page. To consult the image, your browser may require the addition of a plug-in.

Please read "about this site," - including technical details and credits at: [http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/html/index.html ].

If your internet browser will not bring up the tiff image, please read "Help," - information on viewing the images at: [ http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/html/help.html  ] and click on "Viewing Images."

The limitations of the uncorrected OCR version require that the researcher always consult the image to ensure an accurate interpretation.

References to Louisbourg (Louisburg, Louisburgh, Lewisburg, Cape Breton, etc.) found in the OCR version have been extracted and re-formatted as below.

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©Copyright 2002, Maryland State Archives

The Maryland State Archives publication series, Archives of Maryland Online, will be providing access to over one million historical documents that form the constitutional, legal, legislative, judicial, and administrative basis of Maryland's government. Online access to this information at the Archives' web site enables users to research quickly and easily such topics as Maryland's constitutions and constitutional conventions' proceedings, session laws, proceedings of the General Assembly, governors' papers, and military records. Through this project, the Archives is making accessible in electronic form and preserving for future generations records that are scattered among a number of repositories and that often exist only on rapidly disintegrating paper.

An act of the General Assembly in 1882 directed the Maryland Historical Society to collect and prepare for publication "... all the records, archives and ancient documents of the province and State of Maryland of any date prior to the acknowledgment of the independence of the United States by Great Britain...". The legislature had two objectives: to prevent further loss of the state's historical documents and to make the records available to scholars and investigators who did not have access to the original records. The records were collected "...from various rooms of the State House, from disused offices, cupboards, underneath the staircases, from the lofts, the cellars, and even the stairway leading to the dome...". Where gaps existed, they were filled wherever possible with copies obtained from the Public Records Office in London.

The first digital edition of the Archives of Maryland series is being published by the Maryland State Archives through a grant from the Information Technology Fund of the State of Maryland. As part of an ongoing effort to provide greater access to Maryland Legal History, the Archives will be bringing the printed Archives of Maryland series online and expanding the contents with links to scans of historical documents.


Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly,
June 3, 1752 - December 24, 1754,
Volume 50

The fiftieth volume of the Archives of Maryland series was published in 1933, with J. Hall Pleasants as the editor, under the direction of the Maryland Historical Society. This volume covers the Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly from June 3, 1752 to December 24, 1754 as well as the Calvert Papers from this time period.
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