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Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada
Recherche sur la Forteresse-de-Louisbourg Lieu historique national du Canada
Descriptive
Louisbourg-Related Finding Aids and Inventories
Not Available at the Fortress of Louisbourg
By
Eric Krause
(Krause House Info-Research Solutions)
2004 to Present
YALE UNIVERSITY - SELECT INVENTORY
This institution has research material which Louisbourg does not hold as a copied manuscript from any other institution as follows:
Backus, Simon
(1701-1745)
Quantity and location: 5 folder; Box 216
Biographical information:
1701 - Born in
Norwich, CT, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Huntington) Backus
1724 - Graduated from Yale College
1727 - Ordained, served Newington parish in Wethersfield, CT
1729 - Married to Eunice Edwards, sister of Jonathan Edwards
1737/38 - Son Simon born
1745 - Sent by colony authorities to Louisburg, Cape Breton as chaplain to the
350 Connecticut troops stationed there to prevent a recapture of the post by the
French. Was taken ill and died there.
Description of material:
1. 22 manuscript
sermons delivered by Backus in various Connecticut churches. Organized
chronologically by earliest date noted on the sermon, 1724-1739 (3 folders)
2. Account record (1735-1736); goods and services received, with prices marked.
(1 folder)
3. Letter written in by grandson, which includes biographical information
regarding Simon Backus and his son Simon.
Yale University Library, Divinity Library Special Collections, Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection, (Record Group No. 30)