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Andrew Brown collection [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Collection

Date:

[ca. 1710-1834].

Reference:

R17020-0-8-E, MG21-Add.MSS.-19072, MG21-Add.MSS.-19073, MG21-Add.MSS.-19069, MG21-Add.MSS.-19071, MG21-Add.MSS.-19074, MG21-Add.MSS.-19070, MG21-Add.MSS.-19075, MG21-Add.MSS.-19076

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

104865

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Andrew Brown collection
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Collection includes:

13 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

[ca. 1710-1834].

Place of creation:

Nova Scotia

Extent:

0.57 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French

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Collection consists of historical materials collected by the Reverend Dr. Andrew Brown (d. 1834), together with the rough draft of his projected history of Nova Scotia for which they were collected. The papers are annotated in the hand of the Reverend Dr. Andrew Brown himself and in that of Alexander Balloch Grosart. A number of the documents are in French.

Includes photocopies of the papers of Paul Mascarene, described in several series.

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Brown, Andrew, 1763-1834
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Associated name: Mascarene, Paul, 1684-1760

Great Britain Nova Scotia

France Nova Scotia

Mascarene, Paul, 1684-1760

Morris, Charles, 1731-1802

Kasthing, Anthony, ca. 1735-1757

Morris, Charles, 1711-1781

Philipps, Richard, 1661-1750

Murray, Lieutenant-General, ca. 1777

Washington, John, Lieutenant, ca. 1746-1747

Fergunson, Lieutenant, ca. 1776-1794

Diemar, Frederic de, Lieutenant, ca. 1777

Mascarene (family)

Belcher, Jonathan, Lieutenant-Governor, ca. 1750-1791

Pichon, Thomas, spy

Doucett, John, d. 1726

Grande-Bretagne Nouvelle-Écosse

France Nouvelle-Écosse
Biography/Administrative history:

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Brown, Andrew, 1763-1834 : Presbyterian minister and Professor of rhetoric.

The Reverend Dr. Andrew Brown (d. 1834) was a native of Biggar in Lanarkshire, Scotland. After graduation from the University of Edinburgh, he was ordained by the Presbytery of Biggar and came out to Nova Scotia in the middle of 1787. There he served as minister of St. Matthew's Presbyterian Church, Halifax, for eight years, from 1787 to 1795, when he returned to Scotland. He afterwards served as minister of Lochmaben in Dumfriesshire, until his translation to New Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, from which he was promoted to the Old Church in the same city. In 1801, he succeeded Hugh Blair as Professor of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres at the University of Edinburgh. In 1813, he became Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. He died in 1834.

Mascarene, Paul, 1684-1760 : Jean-Paul Mascarene was the son of a Huguenot, Jean Mascarene, and Margaret de Salavy. He was born in 1684 or 1685 in the province of Languedoc, France. In 1696 he escaped to Geneva, where he was educated, and was naturalized around 1706 in England, where he embarked upon a military career. He served in the British Army from 1708 to 1758. He assisted in the capture of Port Royal in 1710 and thereafter served mainly in Nova Scotia. From 1740 to 1749, he acted as governor of Nova Scotia and defended Annapolis against Du Vivier in 1744. In 1758, he retired from active service with the rank of major-general, and died at Boston, Massachusetts, 22 January 1760.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid provides a descriptive list of all the material copied. It shows which parts were copied in the Nova Scotia "A" and "B" State Papers and gives references to their calendars, which are to be found in the Report on Canadian Archives, 1894 and 1946-1949. Finding Aid No. 90 provides the microfilm shelf list for the Nova Scotia "A" transcripts in the section for MG 11, C.O. 217. Further information can be obtained from the Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1848-1853 (London: 1868); from Douglas MSS0599-5 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002413.pdf

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General note:

Documents created in: Halifax, N.S.

Custodial history:

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The papers of the Reverend Dr. Andrew Brown (d. 1834) were rescued from destruction by the author and editor Alexander Balloch Grosart (1827-1899), while he was a student of theology at Edinburgh, and sold to the British Library in 1852. At the end of the nineteenth century, when the National Archives of Canada was creating its various artificial series of "state papers," parts of the Brown papers were transcribed and included in the composite Nova Scotia "A" and "B" series. (See MG 11, C.O. 217 and C.O. 220). Later, in 1911-1912, when Add. MSS. 19069-19074 were transcribed as a unit, most of the documents previously copied in the State Papers series were not recopied, but cross references to omitted items were provided., In 1973, for the convenience of users, photocopies of the omitted Brown documents among the Nova Scotia "A" and "B" transcripts were made and integrated with the rest of the material in this fonds. When the fragile transcripts in Add. MSS. 19070 and 19071 were microfilmed in 1978, the photocopies from the State Papers included with them were filmed with the rest of the material, on reel C-11964. Add. MSS. 19075 and 19076, which contain Brown's rough draft for his history of Nova Scotia, were photocopied by the National Archives of Canada in 1929.

Citation/reference note:

Brymner's copying proposals in the Report on Public Archives of 1881, pp. 31-38; and from J.B. Brebner's "The Brown Manuscripts and Longfellow" in the Canadian Historical Review, Volume XVII, No. 2 (June 1936). A number of the Brown manuscripts that relate to the expulsion of the Acadians were printed, with material from other sources, by Placide Gaudet in the Report concerning Canadian Archives for 1905, Volume 2, and also in Documents Inédits du Canada-Français (Québec: 1888-1890), Volumes I-III,

Location of originals note:

Originals with the British Library, London, England.

Availability of other formats note:

Portions of the Brown papers included in MG 11, C.O. 217, Nova Scotia "A" Series, are also available with the rest of that series on reels C-9119 to C-9143, as indicated in the Nova Scotia "A" Series Calendar and microfilm shelf list. Add. MSS. 19070 and 19071 are also available on reel C-11964.
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Canso (N.S.)

Acadiens, Déportation des, 1758

Acadiens, Déportation des, 1755

Acadians Nova Scotia

United Empire loyalists Nova Scotia

Port Royal (N.S.)

Petitions Nova Scotia

Indians of North America Nova Scotia

Lunenburg (N.S.)

Deportation Nova Scotia

Halifax (N.S.)

Saint John (N.B.)

Annapolis Royal (N.S.)

Halifax (N.-É.)

Canada 1713-1763 (Nouvelle-France)

Canada Seven Years' War, 1755-1763

Canada 1755-1763 (Guerre de Sept Ans)

United States Revolution, 1775-1783

États-Unis 1775-1783 (Révolution)

Canada 1713-1763 (New France)

Kings County (N.S.)

Nova Scotia

Nouvelle-Écosse

Governors Nova Scotia

Gouverneurs Nouvelle-Écosse

Port-Royal (N.-É.) Prise, 1710

Expulsion des étrangers Nouvelle-Écosse

Acadians

United Empire loyalists Nouvelle-Écosse

Acadiens Nouvelle-Écosse

Pétitions Nouvelle-Écosse

Annapolis Royal (N.-É.) 1710 (Prise)

Lunenburg (N.-É.)

Indiens Amérique du Nord Nouvelle-Écosse
Source:

Private

Former archival reference no.:

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MG21-Add.MSS.-19072
MG21-Add.MSS.-19073
MG21-Add.MSS.-19069
MG21-Add.MSS.-19071
MG21-Add.MSS.-19074
MG21-Add.MSS.-19070
MG21-Add.MSS.-19075
MG21-Add.MSS.-19076
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG21 Add. Mss.-19069] 19069

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [MG21 Add. Mss.-19070] 19070

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [MG21 Add. Mss.-19071] 19071

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [MG21 Add. Mss.-19072] 19072

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [MG21 Add. Mss.-19073] 19073

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [MG21 Add. Mss.-19074] 19074

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [MG21 Add. Mss.-19075] 19075

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [MG21 Add. Mss.-19076] 19076

[Consultation 90 Open]

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