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[1825, August, 09]

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MG17-A25

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Fonds du Vatican. Archives de la Sacrée Congrégation de la Propagande

Acta, "S.O.C.G.", "Varia et Addenda", "Lettere" et "Congressi"

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[1825, August, 09]

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[London],

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ALS. The writer describes his revenues, so that the addressee can forward the information to PF Secretary [Caprano]. The c.£700 he had when he arrived in Canada [in 1804] he invested in land, and 20 years later, "by a judicious selection of advantagious situations, good management & rigid economy," they became "a respectable property," to which 2,400 acres of land were added by the British government. He also has two large farms (rented to tenants for a yearly return of half of the produce of land and livestock), other farms (rented for small yearly rent), two mills (rented for half the proceeds). The above properties returned every year 1,000/1,200 bushels of grain, besides milk, butter, cheese, beef, mutton, pork, enough to maintain 20/30 students and teachers.

In Kingston, the writer owns land and a house that can yield £3,000 a year in rent, and just before he left Canada he sold two acres of that property for £1,400. As the value of property in Kingston is increasing, so is the value of his property. Furthermore, tithes from Glengarry County for the year he left Canada enabled the writer to maintain his family, the seminary, and to sell 1,300 bushels of wheat, 800 bushels of oats, 400 bushels of peas, 200 bushels of Indian corn. As for the clergy, to the one priest he had left in Canada he added two more, three seminarians just completed their third year, and three more will return with him from Europe. Rome's delays, however, could jeopardize the success of the whole enterprise. The British government will not pay the £400 per annum promised to a bp. in Upper Canada to a vicar general, and his properties will be inherited by his family.

Furthermore, Bathurst's "kind disposition" will be offended by an "impolite" attitude on the part of the Holy See.
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Author: Alexander McDonell, bp. of Rhesaina, vicar general, suffragan and auxiliary bp. in Upper Canada

Recipient: Poynter, William, 1762-1827
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MSS1186

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General note:

We do not possess a copy of this document.
Cross-references: Acta 134-137, SOCG 293-303, Varia 331-333, Lettere 209-213 217 219-225, C 137 141. Translation into Italian: SOCG 300. Another C: in Acta 134. Enclosed with SOCG 298.

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3. SOCG

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Private

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MG17-A25
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