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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

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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:  


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


Richard Salter Storrs Library
Longmeadow, Massachusetts

1. Stephen Williams diaries 1715-1782  MS 62-4444

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

5. Portsmouth Historical Society

6. Salem Historical Society

7. 1925. Geo. W. Smith Co. Inc [N.Y.]

8. 1935

9. 1964

10. Capt. Edward Whitmore, Barry St. Edmunds


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

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