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John Graves Simcoe fonds [textual record (some microform)]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1724-1861.

Reference:

R5137-0-5-E, MG23-HI1

Type of material:

Textual material

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Item ID number:

105120

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John Graves Simcoe fonds
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Fonds includes:

6 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1724-1861.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

4 microfilm reels : negative and positive.
1.69 m of textual records : photocopies and transcripts.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of both public and private correspondence, memoranda and military records, as well as family papers, and diaries. Included are correspondence of his father, Captain John Simcoe, RN, and of his wife Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim, as well as of his daughters Eliza Katherine, Charlotte, Harriet, Caroline, Anne and Sophie. The papers are arranged in series according to the sources from which they were copied. There are 5 pages of photocopies. Microfilmed material is located on microfilm reels A-605 to A-608.

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Simcoe, John Graves, 1752-1806

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Simcoe, Katherine

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Simcoe, John Graves, 1752-1806 : John Graves Simcoe entered the British Army in 1771. After his promotion to major in 1777, he took command of the newly-formed provincial corps called the Queen's Rangers, becoming its lieutenant colonel in 1778 and colonel in 1781. Invalided home in 1781, he spent ten years quietly in Devon until named the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, which post he took up in 1792. He was transferred to Santo Domingo for 1796-1797, then returned to England. Shortly before his death in 1806 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of India.

Simcoe married Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim in 1782 and they had eleven children.

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Textual records (Electronic) Finding Aid No. 139 provides subject and nominal lists for Series 1, 3 and 4 of the transcripts as well as a detailed description of Series 5. Series 1 and 2 include tables of contents within the volumes of the two series. The tables of contents are arranged chronologically by year, and contain the date of the document, its page number in the series, and a description of its contents. The finding aid for Series 5 contains a list of authors, recipients, and dates and descriptions of documents on reels A-605 to A-608. MSS0139 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001325.pdf

Textual records (Electronic) This finding aid describes series 5, microfilm reels A-605 to A-608 at the item level. MSS0139 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000034.pdf

Textual records (Electronic) This finding aid consists of two chronologically organized lists of despatches from the Colonial Office to the Governor in Chief of Lower Canada and the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada for the period 1784-1841. It includes many references to the Simcoe papers. MSS0178 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001183.pdf

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General note:

The Simcoe papers were received from a variety of sources from 1881-1962.

Citation/reference note:

Part of the Simcoe correspondence has been published by Cruikshank, in five volumes between 1923 and 1931, available in the National Archives Library. Mrs. Simcoe's diary and many of her sketches have also been published. Instead of relying on the originals, Cruikshank used the "error-ridden transcriptions which had been made under the direction of John Ross Robertson in the 1880s." This statement appeared in an article by E.G. Firth, "The Publication of Documents in Canada," Canadian Archivist, Vol. 1, No. 5 (1967), pp 12-15.

Location of originals note:

Originals are in the Ontario Archives, Toronto, Ont., and Devon Record Office, Exeter, U.K.
Subject heading:

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Lieutenant governors - Upper Canada, 1791-1796 Captain John Simcoe

Great Britain. Army - Officers, 1771-1806 Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim

Great Britain - Armed Forces - Officers, 1771-1806 Eliza Simcoe

Upper Canada - Politics and government, 1791-1806 Charlotte Simcoe

Politicians - Upper Canada, 1791-1796 Harriet Simcoe

John Graves Simcoe - Diaries, [1771-1806] Caroline Simcoe

Mrs. Simcoe - Diaries, [1771-1806] Anne Simcoe

Simcoe family, 1724-1860 Sophie Simcoe

Colonial administration - Upper Canada, 1784-1844

Colonies - Administration, 1784-1844

Great Britain - Colonial Office - Despatches, 1784-1844

Great Britain

Grande-Bretagne

Soldiers Great Britain

Soldats Grande-Bretagne

Indians of North America Canada
Source:

Private

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MG23-HI1
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