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

• May 15, 1759 - Sept 24, 1760. Of an expedition to Louisbourg with an account of life on the Coast of Cape Breton. The record begins with the departure from Nantucket for Louisbourg in the Oliver, goes to Cape Breton, account of events follows, detailing movements of troops and vessels. Closes with the surrender, Bound with another diary of the previous year, evidently by the same hand. Author unknown.

2. Sir Wm. Pepperell - A journal of the expedition against Louisbourg, 1745, 1 vol.

• (Maine; merchant, president of Mass. Council, jurist, colonial army officer). "...The most important of the Pepperell papers had fallen into his [J. Balknap] hands ... after which he deposited them in the Mass. Historical Society where they now (1887) are, bound in two volumes, covering the years 1699-1779, but chiefly concerning the Louisbourg expedition. With them in the same depository are the Belknap papers, three volumes, as well as a composite volume, Louisbourg Papers, devoted entirely to the expedition..." (J. Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America . vol. 5, p. 436.) For further description of these papers, see Winsor, p. 436, note 1.

3. Curwen family papers 1640-1796  Ms 62-4507.

• There are several which relate to the 1745 expedition against Louisbourg

4. Letters relating to the French Indian War 1754-1774 11 volumes MS 62-3084

• There are several letters relating to the Louisbourg Expedition of 1758.

5. Hancock family papers 1735-1750  MS 62-3082

• Letters of Thomas Hancock

6. John Bradstreet correspondence  1755--1773.

• Correspondence with Wm. Shirley, Jeffery Amherst and Thomas Gage and the supply service 1754-1773

7. Papers relating to the State of Maine 1640-182 MS 62-3081

• [especially York County, Maine the home of Sir Wm. Pepperrell] 

8. Robert Hale papers -1755

• Journal of an expedition to Nova Scotia in 1731 and others.

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

• Troop supplier, French and Indian war

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

• Merchant and ship owner of Boston and New London [53 volumes, 9 boxes]

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

• Diaries [1754-1799], notebooks, sermons

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

• Army officer ... letters, journals, orderly books [1758-1759]

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)

• In part, photocopies (negative) made from originals in the Public Record Office of London; and microfilm (positive) purchased from the Library of Congress British Army officer; commander-in-chief in North America. Correspondence and other
   papers relating to military matters. Unpublished calendar in the Library. 
• Described in British Manuscripts project, compiled by L. K. Born and published by the Library of Congress (1955). Open to investigators under Library restrictions.

American Philosophical Society Library

1. Shippen family papers, 1750-1791

• French and Indian War

2.Vaughan family papers, 1746 ...

3 James Burd papers

• Diary, account books etc. French and Indian War [mainly Pennsylvania]

Boston Athenaam

1. Wm. Shirley Family Memoranda

• see Library of Congress Check List of Personal Papers (1918) P. 73

City of Boston

1. 14th Report of the Record Commission p.68 

• 26th March 1745: The selectmen informed the town that 215 firearms given to the town by Col. Thos. Fitch were lately impressed for service in the Expedition to Cape Breton

2. 14th Report of the Record Commission p. 72 

• 3rd May 1745: Petition of John Goldthwait & Jacob Sheafe. Collectors of taxes for 1743. Praying that assessors may be allowed to abute taxes of these as enlisted in the Expedition to Cape Breton that didn't pay before.

3. 14th Report of the Record Commission p. 83 

• 11th March 1745: Mr.Hancook, one of the selectmen informed town that he had received from the Province Treasurer £666.13.4 by grant of the General Court 30th 
• May 1744 for purchase of cannon etc. and £2150 for the 215 firearms for Cape Breton.

4. 14th Report of the Record Commission pp. 84-85 

• 11th March 1745: Reference to impressments of seamen for ships to Cape Breton ..... 3000 said to have fled in fear of being impressed.

5. 14th Report of the Record Commission pp.118, 122, 124 

• 12th May 1747: Petitions of selectmen to Thos. Charles Knowles of Cape Breton, requesting protection to fetch sea coal from Cape Breton. 
• 29th June, 1747: Favourable answer to the petitions of the selectmen ff .122, 124

6. 16th Report of the Record Commission p. 15 

• 12th June 1758: Reference to fishing to be re-commenced when Louisbourg is taken.

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 

• A proclamation whereas  .... such ... men .... as shall enlist ... shall receive twenty-five shillings ... per month ... 2nd Feb. 1744, Broadside Facsimile [Boston. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1919] 16 5/8 x 12 1/8 in. H.90.453.141

4. New Hampshire, Gov. Wentworth 

• A proclamation ... whereas ... such ... men... as shall enlist ... shall receive Twenty-five shillings .... per months ... 2 Feb.1744, Broadside facsimile. [Boston, Mass. Hist. Soc. 1919] 16 7/8 x 12 1/8 in. H.90.453.141

5. Richard Daton. 

• Capture of the "Prudent" and the "Bienfaisant" in Louisbourg Harbour 26 July 1758. R. Paton, pinx. P. C. Canot, Sculp. Loudon, Ishn, Boy Dell,14 Feb. 1771

6. Massachusetts Acts and Laws. 

• Levying of soldiers. August 31 Geo. III 1758. Act for the speedy levying of soldiers foe the intended Expedition .... 27 April 1758. Sold by S. Kneeland, Facsimile. Boston. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1917 H.90.453.314

7. Carter, Robert Goldthwaite 

• Record of the military service of Capt. Joseph Goldthwait, adjutant of Pepperrell's Regiment [First Mass.] at the Siege of Louisbourg, l745. [N.P. 191 ....] E.198.C32

8. Chamberlain collection 

• Papers of Sir Wm. Pepperrell 

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

• Extrait des papiers concernant l'Acadie, le Canada, etc. remis par le Maréchal d'Estrée au Sr. d'Auteuil pour l'examiner. G.41.49 

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 

• Memoire par raport au Traitté de la paix générale concernant les colonies, la navigation et le commerce à Mrs. les commissaires plenopentiares du Roy à Riswick ... pp. 1-296

Volume 2.

• Memoire sur les affaires presentes du Canada et l'établissement du Cap Breton pp. 1-73

Volume 3. 

• Memoire pour jetter les premiers fondements de l'établissement proposé dans l'Isle du Cap Breton, Quebec ... 20 aôut, signé Raudot pp.74-118

Volume 4.

• Memoire sur l'Etablissement du Cap-Breton ... Quebec 27 fevrier 1710, signé Raudot pp. 119-134
• Mémoire sur les limites de l'accadie pp. 135-155

2. General Assembly of New Hampshire 

• (a) 1744-46 Extracts of 4 acts of the General Assembly [collection for the Expedition against Louisbourg] 9 pages (620) 
• 1746 December 11 General Assembly of New Hampshire: Vote concerning Accounts relating to the Expedition against Louisbourg (618) 
• 1747 June 4. General Assembly of New Hampshire to John Thomlinson Louisbourg expedition 2 pages (619) 
• 1749 June 12. Benning Wentworth to the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations. Dated Portsmouth. N.H. Expenses for the expedition against Louisbourg ...

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

• Merchants of Abington, Mass.

25. Military papers 1540-1865 [partly transcripts and photocopies] MS 62-2077

• Includes material on first siege of Louisbourg

26. Official records 1493-1853 ca.50 items and 10 volumes

• Material on some British colonies in America

27. James Furnis letters 1755-1758

• British army officer, Letters to the Board of Ordnance by Furnis, comptroller of the ordnance in North America.

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

• Col. Henry Ellison's letters re military activities in America 1733-1748

2. John Waite papers 1743-1799

• Merchant sea captain and sheriff of Cumberland County, Me. Most of the papers relate to his term as sheriff

3. Ebenezer Kneeland Sermons 1770-1797

• 62 items. Sermons in various Connecticut Towns

Connecticut State Library
Hartford, Connecticut

1. Papers of the Allyn and Wolcott families 1646-1797 

• 221 items

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

• June 1 - Nov. 27, 1745. By Seargent Philip Judd, of East Middletown, Conn. Kept in expedition from New London to Cape Breton. It covers two large pieces paper. Judd died at Cape Breton, Dec. 14, 1745. MSS unpublished.

2. Records of Connecticut troops in the French and Indian Wars

• "Many account books, diaries, and logbooks relating the whaling, shipping, railroads, highways, merchants, peddlers, fishing ... Military records include papers relating to the Connecticut militia, from 1678, the French and Indian Wars ..." (Hamer, p. 55)

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

• Chiefly logbooks of whale-ships, together with those of merchantmen  and a few warships, transports and other government vessels

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

• These include letters [1744-1745] from George Curwen to his wife while he was commissary for the army at the siege of Louisbourg

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

• Includes the diary of Rev. John Cleaveland, 1758-1762, a chaplain in the French and Indian war. Louisbourg Diary

5. Papers of the Town and  Bragg families 1 Box MS 62-4501

6. Thomas Bancroft papers 1742-1808 1 envelope MS 62-3673

• Sea captain of Salem, Massachusetts

7. James Bott papers 1755-1832  MS 62-3679

8. Benjamin Bradstreet papers 1729-1765  MS 62-3680

• Gloceste, Mass. clergyman [Was this Dudley Bradstreet's father]

9. Joseph Bowditch  4 boxes   MS 62-3681

• Salem merchant.

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 

• Volume 1: 1745

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

• Account book of Richard Hacket of Salisbury, Mass., a boat-builder.

21. Hathorne family papers 2 Volumes MB 62-3581

• Shipping interests of Philip English

22. Drury family papers   1739-1838   4 volumes

• Massachusetts and Rhode Island merchants

13. Philip English  papers 1665-1773  MS 3561

• Salem merchant,. Some of the papers are in French. 

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

• Col. Bagley's regiment 1758. Vol. 29, p. 169.

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 [?]

• Louisbourg diary -1745 and other material

2.Collection miscellaneous military papers   ca.1690-1865    MS 62-3373

• ca. 400 items and 2 volumes

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

• Philadelphia merchants

5. Simon Gratz papers Commercial records 1699-1835

• Papers of merchants etc. of Philadelphia

6. Lewis Family papers 1755-1890

• Philadelphia merchants

7. Churchmen and clergymen, autographs 1647-1921

• Autograph letters and portraits containing representative documents of American clergymen 1647-1920 chaplains in the French and Indian Wars

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

• Philadelphia merchants

12. John Stamper letter book 1751-1770

13. Diaries and journals 1684-1930 [highly unlikely]

14.Dutilh and  Wachsmuth records 1704-1846

• Merchants

15. Collection of Orderly Books [1775-1861]   49 vols.

• 42 American orderly books, mainly from the Revolutionary Period, together with 5 British orderly books, one dated 1758.

Huntington Library
 San Marino, California

1. Canadiana (1642 - 1900) 257 items

• Miscellaneous material relating to Canada, largely 19th C. Catalog cards in Library. Acquired from several sources before 1927.

2. Abercromby papers (1674 - 1787) ca. 1000 items

• These papers are largely for the year 1758 while -Tames Abercromby was commander-in-chief in America during the French and Indian War. There are summary report and catalog cards in the Library.

3. Loudoun papers (1682 - 1790) ca. 8060 items

• John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (1705 - 1782). British Army officer. Official correspondence, dispatches, maps, plans, and other papers relating to Loudoun's position as commander-in-chief of British colonial troops in North America during the French and Indian War. Includes letters addressed to Loudoun from America during the American Revolution. Articles, reports, other descriptive matter, and catalog cards in Library. Acquired from Sotheby's of London, 1923; from the Museum Book Store of London, 1924.

4. Great Britain. War Office Records 1750-1814  ca. 850 items  MS 61-1840

• Service in America, the West Indies, India, Gibraltar, etc.

5. William Blathwayt papers   1657-1770   461 items   MS 61-1438

• British colonial administrator. Papers relating to trade and plantations.

6. Sir. Geo. Pocock correspondence  1733-1793   1170 items

• Centres on the British expedition against Cuba 1762

7. Hastings Manuscript

Kittery Point
Maine

1. Diary of John Storer of Wells, Me.

• Diary from 8th March to 30 April 1745, kept during his participation in the Expedition against Louisbourg. There are very detailed records of the meetings of the council.
• In the possession of Stephen Decatur of Kittery Point as of 1938

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

• Diary kept on board H.M.S. Kingston, 1755 - 1760, describing sieges of Louisbourg and Quebec. 1 vol. L.R. 1924 p. 59. See List of Manuscript Collections in the Library of Congress to July 1931.

2. Monkton papers (1754 - 63)   1 Vol.

• Monkton, Robert

3. Reduction of Louisbourg, 1745    Peter Force library   1 Vol.

• Much material of the French and Indian War, especially regarding the taking of Louisbourg. See Library of Congress Handbook of MSS (1918) p, 254. 
• Also 1 vol. Governor William Shirley's correspondence with Governor Benning Wentworth 1742 - 1756 ( copied by John Farmer mainly from the New Hampshire Historical Society's Collections 1834).

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

• Concerning the Susquehanna Lands, and the siege of Louisbourg in 1744/1745, See Library of Congress Handbook of USS (1918) P. 76.

6. Roger Wolcott Journal, 1745

• Journal of the expedition against Louisbourg, May 31 to July 30, 1745, together with his autobiography. One volume folio; 69 pages. See Library of Congress Handbook of MSS (1918) p. 192. Transcript only]

7. Undated manuscript [apparently 1745]

• A journal of the first siege approved and authenticated by Wm. Pepperrell.

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

• Physician and public official of Massachusetts

13. Edmond Charles Genet papers    1756-1895    MS 59-224

14. Papers of the Morris and Popham  families   1667-1892    MS 59-254

• [Lewis Morris was governor of New Jersey]

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

• See Library of Congress Check List of Personal Papers, (1918) p. 78.

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. 

• (1) Sept. 18, 1753 to Sept. 17, 1759. Mostly logs of short voyages to Louisbourg, New York, and Philadelphia. 
• (2) August 16 - October 29, 1755. Voyage from Halifax to Chegnecto. Helps transport the Acadians at Grand Manan and Annapolis. Lists of children who died on the voyage. 
• (3) Oct. 30 - Nov. 12, 1755. Annapolis to Georgia. 
• (4) Journal in the sloop Swallow toward Quebec in an expedition against the French, commanded by Adm. Saunders and General Wolfe. vol. J. Unpublished as of 1923.

4. Andrew Hawes of Stroudwater collection

• Volume I
• Volume II
• Box II

5. Miscellaneous Collection

• Volume I [autograph 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 

• (a) as ensign on H.M.S.Pembroke 
• (b) at the siege of Quebec.

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 

• [photostats of various documents held by other archives and museums]

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 

• Volumes XI 1738-1748   
• Volumes XII  1749-1760

10. Henry Knox papers Volume L

11. Sedgewick papers  

• Folder 1756-1757
• Folder 1757-1761

12. Savage papers 

• Volume 1   1702-1750
• Volume [Box] 11   1712-1762

13. Cushing papers

14. Norcross papers 

• Volume 2

15. Williams papers 

• Volume I [remains to be checked]
• Volume II

16. John Hancock papers 

• Folder 1728-1749
• Folder 1750-1760
• Folder 1761-1765

17. Parkman papers 

• Volume IX
• Volume X
• Volume XI
• Volume XII
• Volume XIII 
• Volume XIV 
• Volume XV 
• Volume XVI 
• Volume XVII 
• Volume XVIII 
• Volume XIX 
• Volume XX
• Volume XXII   Documents from the State Paper Office 
• Volume XXXI   Archives of France. Documents re Acadians 
• Volume XXXVIII 
• Volume XXXIX 
• Volume XL 
• Volume XLI 
• Volume XLII 
• Volume XLIII 
• Volume XLIV 
• Volume XLV Bouquet and Haldimand papers 1756-1761 
• Volume LIII Archives du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères 
• Volume LIV Archives Nationales 1598-1759 
• Volume LXIV Archives de la Marine 1737-1759
• Volume LXX
• Volume LXXII
• Volume LXXIII Letters of J. H. Bastide 1743-1764
• Volume CII
• Volume CIII
• Volume CVI
• Volume CVII
• Volume CXV

18. Gay transcripts

Mascarene papers 

• Volume I
• Volume II
• Volume III
• Volume IV

[There are only five volumes in the series]

19. Mascarene family papers  1687-1839

• Folder-Letter Book 1740-1743
• Folder 1687-1756

20.Pepperrell papers

• Volume 71a
• Volume 71b

[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

• Volume 61.E¹ 
• 61.E²

29. Louisbourg papers

• Volume 71.C.I 
• Volume 71.C.III 
• Volume 71.C.IV 
• Volume 71.C.V 
• Volume 71.C.VI 
• Volume 71.C.VIII 

30. T. Saunders papers

• 1 box 1732-1828

31. Belknap papers

• Volume 61.A  
• Volume 61.B 
• Volume 61.C 
• Volume 161.A 
• Volume 161.C

Massachusetts State Archives

[The following volumes at the 
Massachusetts State Archives have been checked]

• Volume 1. Agriculture 1644-1774 
• Volume 2. Colonial 1638-1720 
• Volume 3. Colonial 1629-1720 
• Volume 4. Colonial 1721-1768 
• Volume 5. Colonial 1721-1766 
• Volume 6. Colonial 1724-1775 
• Volume 7. Commercial 1685-1714 
• Volume 8. Depositions 1662-1766 
• Volume 9. Domestic relations 1643-1774 
• Volume 10. Ecclesiastical 1637-1679 
• Volume 11. Ecclesiastical 1679-1739 
• Volume 12. Ecclesiastical 1739-1749 
• Volume 13. Ecclesiastical 1749-1756 
• Volume 14. Ecclesiastical 1757-1774
• Volume 15A. Estates 1651-1774 
• Volume 15B. Estates 1636-1671 
• Volume 16. Estates 1671-1697 
• Volume 17. Estates 1697-1743 
• Volume 18. Estates 1742-1753 
• Volume 19. Estates 1753-1774 
• Volume 20. Foreign relations 1658-1751 
• Volume 21. Foreign relations 1751-1758 
• Volume 22. Foreign relations 1758-1775 
• Volume 23. French neutrals1755-1758
• Volume 24. French neutrals 1758-1769
• Volume 25. Hutchison's correspondence1741-1773
• Volume 26. Hutchison's correspondence 1761-1770
• Volume 27. Hutchison's correspondence 1770-1774
• Volume 28. Hutchison's Mss. History 1691-1750
• Volume 29. Indian conferences etc.
• Volume 30. Indians 
• Volume 31. Indians 
• Volume 32. Indians 1750-1757 
• Volume 33. Indians 1757-1775 
• Volume 34. Indian treaties 
• Volume 35. Inter charter 1689-1690 
• Volume 36. Inter charter 1690-1691 
• Volume 37. Inter charter 1691-1692 
• Volume 38A. Journals etc, 1695-1748
• Volume 38B. Judicial 1640-1655
• Volume 39. Judicial 1658-1683
• Volume 40. Judicial 1683-1724
• Volume 41. Judicial 1725-1742
• Volume 42. Judicial 1742-1749
• Volume 43. Judicial 1749-1754
• Volume 44. Judicial 1754-1755
• Volume 45. lands
• Volume 46. Lands 1726-1739 
• Volume 47. lands 1745-1774 
• Volume 48. Legislature 1643-1732 
• Volume 49. Legislature 1733-1756 
• Volume 50. Legislature 1756-1775 
• Volume 51. Letters 1692-1724 
• Volume 52. Letters 1724-1733 
• Volume 53. Letters 1738-1750
• Volume 54. Letters 1750-1755 
• Volume 55. Letters 1755-1756 
• Volume 56. Letters 1756-1774 
• Volume 57. Letter Books 1658-1779 
• Volume 58. Literary 1645-1774 
• Volume 59. Manufacturers 1639-1773 
• Volume 60. Maritime 1641-1691 
• Volume 61. Maritime 1691-1694 
• Volume 62. Maritime 1694-1706 
• Volume 63. Maritime 1706-1740 
• Volume 64.Maritime 1740-1753 
• Volume 65. Maritime 1753-1759 
• Volume 66. Maritime 1759-1775 
• Volume 67. Military 1643-1675 
• Volume 68. Maritime 1675-1676 
• Volume 69. Military 1676-1680 
• Volume 70. Military 1680-1703 
• Volume 71. Maritime 1704-1711 
• Volume 72. Maritime 1712-1747 
• Volume 73. Maritime 1747-1750 
• Volume 74. Maritime 1751.-1755 
• Volume 75. Maritime 1755-1756 
• Volume 76. Maritime 1756-1757 
• Volume 77. Military 1757-1759 
• Volume 78. Military 1758-1760 
• Volume 79. Maritime 1760-1761 
• Volume 80. Maritime 1761-1774
• Volume 81. Minutes of Council 1669-1732 
• Volume 82. Minutes of Council 1733-1753
• Volume 83. Minutes of Council1753-1756
• Volume 84. Minutes of Council 1756-1761 
• Volume 85. Minutes of Council 1760-1770 
• Volume 86. Minutes of Council 1770-1776
• Volume 87. Miscellaneous
• Volume 88. Miscellaneous
• Volume 90 Military accounts 1748-1751 
• Volume 90. Military accounts 1756-1759 
• Volume 91. Muster rolls 1710-1740
• Volume 92. Rolls of Garrisons, town companies etc.
• Volume 93. Muster rolls 1749-1755
• Volume 94. Muster rolls Crown Point 1755-1756
• Volume 95. Muster rolls Crown Point 1756-1757
• Volume 96. Muster rolls French wars 1757-1758
• Volume 97. Muster rolls Louisbourg 1758-1760
• Volume 98. Muster rolls Louisbourg 1760-1761
• Volume 99. Muster rolls Louisbourg 1761-1762,1774
• Volume 100. Pecuniary 1629-l794 
• Volume 101. Pecuniary 1694-1740 
• Volume 102. Pecuniary 1740-1752 
• Volume 103. Pecuniary 1752-1760 
• Volume 104. Pecuniary 1700 
• Volume 105. Petitions 1643-1775 
• Volume 106. Political 1738-1654 
• Volume 107. Revolution 1689 
• Volume 108. Speeches, messages etc. 1702-1754 
• Volume 109. Speeches and messages 1755-1760 
• Volume 110. Speeches and messages 1760-1774
• Volume 111. Taverns etc,
• Volume 112. Towns 1632-1693
• Volume 113. Towns 1693-1729 
• Volume 114. Towns 1730-1742 
• Volume 115. Towns 1742-1751 
• Volume 116. Towns 1751-1754 
• Volume 117. Towns 1755-1762 
• Volume 118. Towns 1763-1774 
• Volume 119. Trade 1645-1754 
• Volume 120. Trade 1754-1774 
• Volume 121. Travelling etc. 1644-1774 
• Volume 122. Treasury 1692-1713 
• Volume 123. Treasury 1707-1734 
• Volume 124. Treasury 1734-1757 
• Volume 125. Treasury 1757-1769 
• Volume 126. Usurpation 1686-1687 
• Volume 127. Usurpation 1687 
• Volume 128. Usurpation 1688 
• Volume 129. Usurpation 1688-1689 
• Volume 130. Valuation of towns 1760-1770 
• Volume 131. Valuations 
• Volume 132. Valuations 
• Volume 133. Valuations 
• Volume 134. Valuations 1771 
• Volume 135. Witchcraft 1656-1750 
• Volume 136. Misc. Pecuniary and military 1715-1701
• Volume 137. and onwards are beyond the Louisbourg period with the few  exceptions listed below .....
• Volume 246. Accounts 1738-1744 
• Volume 247. Accounts 1745-1750 
• Volume 248. Accounts 1751-1755
• Volume 249. Accounts 1756
• Volume 250. Accounts 1757
• Volume 287. Letters 1663-1760
• Volume 303. Petitions 1659-1786

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

• The Vaughan papers are copies of those in the English Public Record Office

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

• (1716 - 1780); Colonial Governor of New York. Tradesmen's bills and miscellaneous papers.

2. Papers relating to Massachusetts (1663 - 1815) 1 folder

• Governor William Shirley's copies of 11 letters (1743 - 44), and local papers.

3. Papers relating to the French and Indian War (1744 - 1779) ca. 1000 items.

• Letters concerning military activity at Louisbourg, Canada (1744-48). Journals (1747 - 1754) of Captain Phineas Stevens of Massachusetts and a receipt book (1746) of money paid to him by his soldiers. Memorials of British officers and soldiers who served in America in the French and Indian War and in the Revolutionary War. New York muster rolls (1755 - 1764) and miscellaneous papers. The rolls are printed in the Collections (1691).

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

• [New York Merchant]

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

• [New York merchant]

16. Greg and Cunningham letter book  1756-1757  MS 61-1580

• [New York merchant]

17. Bayard family papers  1710-1845  MS 60-2161

18. Samuel Deall, Merchant of New York City   MS 60-1878

• Account books 1757-1775

19. Bancker family papers   1718-1824   MS 60-1925

20. Papers relating to Canada 1694-1825

• 130 letters to the Marquis de Lotbinière [75 from Vaudreuil]. 
• Miscellaneous papers 1694-1814, together with several for the revolutionary period.

21. Receipt books 1749-1878  ca. 40 vols. MS 61-230

22. Account books   1678-1899    MS 61-220

• 110 volumes of  various business concerns

23. Livingston family papers  1716-1808   MS 60-2602

• Account books

New York Public Library

Mss. Papers relative to Canada 1692-1792 

• Folio 22. Canada Expedition 1746 

Collection 

• 4570 Volume II: Letter of Shirley of 26th November 1753 
• 4948 Volume II: Letter of Pepperrell and Warren
• Diverse papers of Sir Wm. Pepperrell

Emmet collection

• Papers of Sir Wm. Pepperrell

Miscellaneous Collection

Museum of the City of New York

1. .Livingston family papers 1719-1873

• Mainly 1736-1752. Correspondence with other merchants etc.

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

• Louisbourg

6. Portsmouth Atheneum

7. Boston Public Library, Chamberlain collection

8. Henry Parsons, Riverhurst, Kennebunk, Me.

9. Dr. E. E. E. Shapleigh. Kittery Point, Me. 

• Not Louisbourg

10. Alonzo Wildes, Kittery Point, Me.

• Not Louisbourg

11. [?] Frost, Kittery Point, Me.

12. Henry H. Taylor, Bridgeport, Conn. [30 January, 1933]

13. Charles Service, Kittery Point, Me.

Pierpont Morgan Library

• 1. V/8/D-MA-550 Letter of Wm. Shirley 8th April 1745
• Ford Collection

Portsmouth Athenaeum
New Hampshire

1. Larkin papers 1753-1798

• Primarily letters to Hugh Hall Wentworth and Joshua Wentworth merchants of Portsmouth, N. H. about trade between Portsmouth and England, the West Indies and Nova Scotia. [related to the libraries Pierce papers]

2. Pierce papers

3. Papers of Sir Wm. Pepperrell

Princeton University Library

1. The William Pepperrells: Colonial Merchants

• Ph.D. Thesis. Princeton (1948). Bibliography (?)

Richard Salter Storrs Library
Longmeadow, Massachusetts

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

• There is a diary of the first siege of Louisbourg

2. Samuel Colton business records 1749-1796   MS 62-3287

Yale University 

1. Clinton family papers   1754-1864   5000 items

• Mainly the papers of Sir Henry Clinton [1771-1829]

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

• Society for the Preservation of Historic Landmarks in York County, 65 Lindsay Road

5. Portsmouth Historical Society

6. Salem Historical Society

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

• Eleanor M. Grieve Pres Scarsdale, N.Y.

• Auth H. Grieve V.P.

• Robt. J. C. Hingel Sec

• Robt. F. Greacen Treas. Scarsdale

• Rare Books 8 E 45th St

8. 1935

• Robert F. Greacen 78 Wall St.

• Robt. J. C. Hingel, New York

• Public Library, 476 5th Ave.

• A. Grieve, 970 Lexington Ave.

9. 1964

• Robert F. Greacen, Whitehall, 4-5858, 80 Wall St.

10. Capt. Edward Whitmore, Barry St. Edmunds

• 2 trunks of papers shipped to him in August 1763 plus furniture from Louisbourg.

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

• Wilbraham, Mass., George Mygate Diary owned by Charles B. Merrick in 1923
• Taunton, Mass., Jacob Haskins Diary, 1759-1761, owned by Frank Haskins of Taunton
• Newbury, Mass., Nathaniel Knapp Diary 1758-1759, Society of Colonial Wars of mass., No. 2, 1895
• Newbury, Mass., Samuel Rolfe Diary owned by Jonathan Kettell, 1845
• Newburyport, Mass, Giddings Diary, 1745, Hon. J. J. Currier of Newburyport Maine

Maine

• Bath, Maine. Dummer Sewall diary, 1759-1760, owned by Harold M. Sewall 1923
• Bluehill, Maine. Jonathan Darling Diary, 1759-1760, owned by R. G. W. Dodge in 1895
• Kittery Point, Maine. Diary of John Storer, 1745, of Wells, Maine. Owned by Stephen Decatur in 1938

New York

• New York City, A diary, Louisbourg. March 14-October 1745. Owned by George Smith of 70 Wall St. in 1923.

Connecticut

• Farmingtont, Conn. Reuban Smith Diary, 1759-1760,  Owned by Julius Gay in 1923

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