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Robert Monckton collection [textual record (microform)]
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Finding aid Textual records: (Paper) The Microfilm Shelf Lists provide detailed description of the contents of reels A-1715 and A-1716. MSS2001 -
Record information Robert Monckton collection [textual record (microform)]
Date:[1707-ca. 1921, predominant 1707-1782].Reference:R11051-0-X-E, MG40-Q17Type of material:Textual materialFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:98181Date(s):[1707-ca. 1921, predominant 1707-1782].Place of creation:United KingdomExtent:2 microfilm reels negative and positive.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:Fonds consists of microfilmed letters to Robert Monckton relating to military activities in North America, 1751-1782. This material is located on microfilm reel A-1715. Subjects covered by the correspondence include: the 1753 Lunenburg rebellion, the 1755 attacks against forts Beauséjour and Gaspereau, privateering and shipping, 1757-1758; the 1758 military actions at Louisbourg, Carillon, and the Saint John River forts; the 1759-1760 sieges of Quebec; the Martinique expedition; the American Revolution; and the quest for a pension for Monckton's widow and children. Correspondents include but are not limited to: Jeffrey and William Amherst, James Abercromby, William Pepperell, William Shirley, John Winslow, Francis Holburne, James Wolfe, James Murray, and William Havilland. Also included are: a 1707 letter of Henri de Ruvigny, Earl of Galway, commander of the English, Dutch and Portuguese forces in Portugal and Spain, 1704-1710; a 1917 note regarding the widow and children of Robert Monckton; and an undated letter, ca.1921, relating to the 1920 sale of Monckton letters at auction.
Fonds also contains minutes, 4 April 1712, of a meeting of Her Majesty's Commissioners for Trade and Plantations and a specimen of a report about French fishing rights in the sea off Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island and Annapolis Royal, n.d., microfilm reel A-1716. This material was microfilmed from the Galway Papers (Ga 12839).Provenance:Additional name(s):Biography/Administrative history:Monckton, Robert, 1726-1782 : Military Officer, Colonial Administrator.
Robert Monckton (1726-1782), second son of John Monckton, Viscount Galway, was commissioned in the British Army in 1741. By 1752 he was a lieutenant-colonel serving in Nova Scotia. During 1753 he put down the insurrection of German settlers at Lunenburg. He commanded the successful campaign against the French forts of Beauséjour and Gaspereau, in 1755, and later supervised the expulsion of the Acadians. He was made Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia in 1755. During the 1758 siege of Louisbourg, Monckton was forced to remain at Halifax, forwarding supplies, but later that year destroyed some French settlements up the Saint John River. He was made second-in-command to James Wolfe in the 1759 campaign against Quebec. In 1761 he was appointed Governor of New York, a position he retained until 1765. Monckton crowned his successful military career as commander of the army that captured the West Indian islands of Martinique, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent in 1762.Additional information:General note:The Monckton papers on reel A-1715 were identified as MG 40 Q 17; on reel A-1716, as MG 18 O 14.Location of originals note:The originals are located in the Manuscripts Department, University of Nottingham Library, Nottingham, England.Related material:For additional Robert Monckton material, see MG 18, M, Northcliffe Collection, Series I, Robert Monckton Papers.Subject heading:- Canada - History - Lunenberg Rebellion, 1753 Jeffrey Amherst, [1751-1782]
- United States - History - American Revolution, 1775-1783, [1776-1783] James Abercromby, [1751-1782]
- Fort Louisbourg (N.S), - Seige, 1758 William Pepperell, [1751-1782]
- Fort Carillon (Quebec) - Seige, 1758 William Shirley, [1751-1782]
- Fort Gaspereau - Seige, 1755 James Murray, [1751-1782]
- William Havilland, [1751-1782]
- Henri de Revigny, [1751-1782]
- Québec Campaign, 1759
- Canada Seven Years' War, 1755-1763
- Canada 1755-1763 (Guerre de Sept Ans)
- Québec (Québec) 1759 (Siège)
- Fort Beauséjour (Aulac, N.B.)
- Fort Beauséjour (Aulac, N.-B.)
- Martinique Seige, 1762
Source:PrivateFormer archival reference no.:MG40-Q17 -
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