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Jasper Grant fonds [textual record (some microform)]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1795-1808.

Reference:

R7960-0-1-E, MG24-F128

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

107232

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Jasper Grant fonds
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Date(s):

1795-1808.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 microfilm reel negative and positive.
1 cm of textual records photocopies and transcripts.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of microfilmed material, transcripts and photocopies including 14 letters from Grant to his mother and brother, Thomas, 1795, 1800-1808. Thirteen of the letters were written while Grant served with his military regiment in Upper and Lower Canada. There are also two recipes for preserving peaches. The letters document the birth of his children, his marriage and the various residences in which they lived, the health and progress of his young family, their servants, local birds and game, plants and seeds, travel conditions for a military officer with a wife and children, the 41st Regiment, his accounts, and the house and gardens at Amherstburg. The original material was created in Upper Canada. Microfilmed material is located on microfilm reel A-2080.

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Grant, Jasper, 1762-1812

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Grant, Jasper, 1762-1812 : Born in 1762, Jasper Grant was the son of Thomas Grant of Kilmurry, Ireland and Elizabeth Campion. In 1799, Grant married Isabella Odell and had four children, all born in Canada: Jasper St. James (b. 1800), Isabella (b. 1801), Thomas (b. 1803) and Susannah. Susannah married J.F.W. DesBarres, grandson of J.F.W. DesBarres, Lieutenant Governor of Cape Breton.

Jasper Grant began his military career with the 4th Regiment of Foot as an ensign in 1781. By the end of 1793, he had attained the rank of Captain and transferred to the 41st Regiment with which he remained to the end of his career. He was promoted to the rank of Major in 1798, Lieutenant Colonel in 1803 and Colonel in 1811. As a major, he was the Commanding Officer at Fort George, Upper Canada, and later, Commanding Officer at Amherstburg. He served with his regiment in Upper and Lower Canada, 1799-1812. Grant died in 1812.

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Textual records: (Paper) A microfilm shelf list for reel A-2080 briefly describes each letter.

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Location of originals note:

The originals are with Mrs. David Micklem, England.

Dates of creation note:

The transcriptions of the letters were made in 1989 from the originals in the possession of Mrs. David Micklem, Langleys, Chelmsford, England. The original letters were microfilmed by the London Office of the National Archives in 1992.

Related material:

Related papers are located in the National Library of Ireland's Usher Papers. A description is found in "Manuscripts and Government Records in the United Kingdom and Ireland relating to Canada", ed. Bruce Wilson.

Subject heading:

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Horticulture, 1800

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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123-020082-7
1990-00001-0
1990/0157
1995/0057
MG24-F128

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MG24-F128
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Volume [MG24 F 128] 1

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Textual records: microform

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Microfilm reel [MG24 F 128] A-2080

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