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Simcoe papers in Devon [textual record (microform)]

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Date:

1775-1861.

Reference:

MG23-HI1

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

125325

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John Graves Simcoe fonds

Simcoe papers in Devon
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Date(s):

1775-1861.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

4 microfilm reels.

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of the Simcoe papers in the Devon Record Office, Exeter, England, which were microfilmed in 1962 for the National Archives of Canada. The documents are arranged in 40 numbered folders, most folders containing more than one document. No. 11 was copied as photostats. The following is a brief description of the contents of the four reels:

Reel A-605 consists of despatches, correspondence, printed military regulations, coded letters, speeches, addresses, lists of officers, memorials, petitions, reports, extracts of documents, maps, journals, general orders and returns relating to the military and political career of John Graves Simcoe, in Upper Canada and in Santo Domingo, and his return to England, 1775-1806, 1861. Included is material on the relations of the Six Nations with the British government and the American government, as well as material on Joseph Brant.

Reel A-606 consists of poems, reports, monthly returns, extracts from speeches and published sources; drawings of native people, correspondence and extracts from Simcoe's journal; Mrs. Simcoe's journal, including the voyage to Quebec, the return voyage to England, life in Upper Canada and interaction with native peoples as well as social activities in Upper and Lower Canada; journal of letters from England relating to the Simcoe daughters, correspondence of Mrs. Simcoe and her eldest daughter, Eliza, n.d., 1775-1806, 1836.

Reel A-607 consists of family correspondence including letters from Simcoe's daughters: Eliza, Charlotte, Henrietta (Harriet), Caroline, Katherine (the second Katherine), and Sophia, n.d., 1797-1858.

Reel A-608 consists of letters and fragments of letters of family members, 1800-1842.

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Dates of creation note:

Microfilmed in 1962 for the National Archives of Canada.

Source:

Private

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MG23-HI1
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Microfilm reel A-605--A-608

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