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Adam Gordon journal [textual record]

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Date:

1764-1765.

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R16747-0-9-E, MG21-King'sMSS.213, Volume number: 1

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Textual material

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Item ID number:

105270

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Adam Gordon journal
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Date(s):

1764-1765.

Place of creation:

United Kingdom

Extent:

2.6 cm of textual records (133 p.) : transcripts.

Language of material:

English

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Item is a journal, 10 April 1764 - 14 October 1765, of the travels made by an officer of the 66th Regiment of Foot, who may have been the colonel of the regiment, Lord Adam Gordon ([1726]-1801). Sailing from Portsmouth, the itinerary included Madeira; Antigua, St. Kitts, Jamaica; Pensacola, Santa Rosa, Mobile, and Isle Dauphin on the northern coast of the Gulf; Cuba (where he was not allowed to land); along the east coast of Florida, and through the seaboards of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, to New York; across the colony of New York to Lake Ontario, Niagara, Lake Erie, and down the St. Lawrence to Montreal and Quebec; then on to Lake Champlain, Lake George, through Connecticut and Massachusetts to Boston, Newport, and New York, where he embarked for Falmouth, England.

The narrative gives brief descriptions of people, manners, government, defences, products, etc., in the principal places visited. In addition to his remarks on Canada in the ordinary course of the account, the author has added (ff. 59-60) "Some thoughts Relative to Canada as It appeared affected in 1765", just after the Conquest. Transcripts, 133 pages.

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Gordon, Adam, [1726]-1801

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Gordon, Adam, [1726]-1801 : Governor of Edinburgh Castle.

Lord Adam Gordon, ([1726]-1801) was the fourth son of Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon ([1678]-1728), by his wife Lady Henrietta Mordaunt, daughter of the Earl of Peterborough. He entered the army, ca. 1746, and in 1753 became lieutenant and captain in the 3rd Foot Guards. In 1758, he served with his company of the guards in the expedition to the French coast under General Bligh. In 1762, he became colonel of the 66th Regiment of Foot, and took that regiment out to Jamaica in 1764.

Returning home in 1765, Lord Adam Gordon was entrusted by the Florida (?) colonists with a memorial of grievances to lay before the secretary of state. In 1782, he was appointed commander of the forces in North Britain (Scotland) and took up residence in Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, which he repaired extensively. In 1796, he became a full general and governor of Edinburgh Castle. He died at his seat, The Barn, Kincardineshire, Scotland, on 13 August 1801.

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Textual records (Paper) Finding Aid No. 599 provides information on which the attribution of authorship, to Lord Adam Gordon, of this anonymous travel journal is based. MSS0599 (90: Open)

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General note:

Documents created in: Kincardineshire, Scotland.

Custodial history:

The King's Manuscripts are a manuscript collection formed mainly by the purchases of George III and by gifts made to him. The collection was presented to the British nation in 1823 by George IV. It was deposited in the British Museum (now the British Library), where it is kept as a separate collection, numbered as King's MSS. 1-446, although it is catalogued and indexed together with the collections of George III's predecessors on the throne, known as the Royal or Old Royal collection., In 1912, the National Archives of Canada transcribed King's MSS. 213 (ff. 1-69), the journal of an officer of the 66th Regiment of Foot, who travelled over a part of the West Indies and of North America in the course of 1764 and 1765.

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Originals with the British Library, London, England.
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[Lord Adam Gordon] - Diaries, 1764-1765 Great Britain. Army. 66th Regiment of Foot, 1764-1765

North America - Politics and government, 1764-1765 Portsmouth (N.S.), 1767-1765

North Ameria - Description and travel, 1764-1765 Madeira, 1764-1765

North America - Social life and customs, 1764-1765 Antigua, 1764-1765

Great Britain - Army - Officers, 1764-1765 St. Kitts, 1764-1765

Central America - Politics and government, 1764-1765 Jamica, 1764-1765

Central America - Description and travel, 1764-1765 Pensacola (Fla.), 1764-1765

Central America - Social life and customs, 1764-1765 Santa Rosa (Costa Rica), 1764-1765

Canada - Social life and customs, 1764-1765 Florida, 1764-1765

Canada - Description and travel, 1764-1765 Georgia, 1764-1765

Great Britain - Colonies - Defense, 1764-1765 South Carolina, 1764-1765

Soldiers, English - Diaries, 1764-1765 North Carolina, 1764-1765

[Lord Adam Gordon] - Journeys, 1764-1765 Virginia, 1764-1765

Pennsylvania, 1764-1765

New York (State), 1764-1765

Lake Ontario, 1764-1765

Niagara (Upper Canada), 1764-1765

Lake Erie, 1764-1765

Lake Champlain, 1764-1765

Lake George, 1764-1765

Massachusetts, 1764-1765

New Port (N.C.), 1764-1765

Falmouth (Eng.), 1764-1765

Québec (Québec)

Montréal (Québec)

New Jersey

Maryland

New York (N.Y.)

Connecticut

Canada

Great Britain

Grande-Bretagne

Isle Dauphin, 1764-1765
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MG21-King'sMSS.213
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG21 King's Mss. 213] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 599] 60--61

[Consultation 10 Closed]

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