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Western and exploring expeditions [textual record (microform), cartographic material]

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Date:

1750-1773.

Reference:

R11231-15-3-E, MG21-Add.MSS.-21661-21892

Type of material:

Textual material, Maps and cartographic material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

126826

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Haldimand papers

Western and exploring expeditions
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Series includes:

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Date(s):

1750-1773.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 microfilm reel.
12 maps.

Language of material:

English

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This series, (volume 26), consists of the following items: memoir by Jacques Repentigny Legardeur de Saint Pierre, 1752, on his trip for the discovery of the Western sea in 1750; voyage of HMS Winchelsea from Charleston, South Carolina, to New York, in convoy, 1758; report by Alexander Fraser on his exploratory survey of the Ohio and Illinois country, Pensacola, 1766; report on a journey by land from Pensacola, 13-14 July, 1766; letter from Lt. Thomas Hutchins, Pensacola, 15 October, 1768, enclosing a journal kept by Sergeant Wright during his journey from Pensacola to visit the Upper Creek Indians; list of Indian tribes on the Mississippi supplied by Charles Stuart, 1773; report of Hugh Finlay on his survey of a post road from Quebec to Falmouth and of his attempts to get the Assembly of Massachusetts to agree to open the road; report of an expedition from Simpson's Cliff to Pensacola; notes by Harry Gordon on the country from Cascaskia to New Orleans; notes on the Campeachy and neighbourhood. There are also maps.

Also included are: list of militia raised in Yucatan in 1762; remarks on the Mississippi by Col. Maxwell; list of names of towns; instructions given by the Congress to privateers cruising the St. Lawrence; report on distances from Trois Pistoles to Restigouche; and re-survey of Hugh Parker's land at Salisbury Plains, Maryland, 1750. This material is located on microfilm reel A-615.

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MG21-Add.MSS.-21661-21892
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Microfilm reel A-615

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