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Robert Morse fonds [textual record, cartographic material, technical drawing]

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Fonds

Date :

1783-1784.

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R17884-0-9-E, MG21-King'sMSS.-208-209

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Archives / Collections et fonds

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105244

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Robert Morse fonds
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Fonds comprend :

2 description(s) de niveau inférieur
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Date(s) :

1783-1784.

Lieu de création :

Royaume-Uni

Étendue :

2 cm of textual records (98 p.) transcripts.

Langue du document :

anglais

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Fonds contains two reports. King's Manuscript 208 and 209 contain a report written by Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Morse (1744-1818) on Nova Scotia and the maps and plans that illustrate it. In particular, King's Manuscript 208 is a transcript copy of the report that gives a geographical description of Nova Scotia and New Brunscwick, and analyses the geographical complexity of the St. Croix dispute. King's Manuscript 209 is the plans and maps referred to in Morse's report. Transcripts, 98 pages.

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Morse, Robert, 1744-1818

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Morse, Robert, 1744-1818 : Military engineer and author.

Robert Morse (1744-1818) was born on 29 February 1744. He was the second son of the Reverend Thomas Morse, rector of Lamyatt, Somerset, England. He was educated at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, 1756-1758. In June 1782, Morse accompanied Sir Guy Carleton to New York as Chief Engineer in North America. On 1 January 1783, he was promoted lieutenant-colonel.

On 28 July 1783, Morse received Carleton's order to make a general survey of Nova Scotia. He was instructed to examine its military defences and its natural strengths and advantages and make a particular study of the protection of navigation, fisheries and communications links with Canada; he was also to give special attention to the harbour at Saint John (N.B.), the Strait of Canso, and the St. Croix River area, where the boundary question was a matter of concern. Morse left New York at the end of July 1783 and arrived at Halifax, N.S., in August. He embarked immediately on a seven-week exploration of the Fundy and Passamaquoddy areas in the armed brigantine Maria.

Morse spent the autumn, winter, spring, and summer of 1783-1784 in sorting out the chaotic stores situation for the Halifax garrison, inspecting the fortifications of the province, advising the local army command on the repair of barracks, and gathering materials for his forthcoming report. The report was written at some time after July 1784, either in Nova Scotia or after he sailed for Britain in October 1784.

Morse was appointed inspector-general of fortifications in 1802 and held the post for nine years. He was promoted general on 25 April 1808. He died on 28 January 1818 at his house in Devonshire Place, London, England and was buried in Marylebone Church.

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(Papier) A description of King's MSS. 208 and 209 and the comments upon them made by Douglas Brymner, the first Dominion Archivist, are available with his copying proposals in the Report on Public Archives of 1881, Appendix No. 1, pages 29-30. The text of the report in King's MSS. 208 is printed in the Report on Canadian Archives of 1884, note C, pages xxvii-1ix. Descriptions of the maps and plans in King's MSS. 209 are available in the Catalogue of the Manuscript Maps, Charts, and Plans, and of the Topographical Drawings in the British Museum, volume 3 and from the catalogue cards in the cartographical and architectural archives division (CAAD).

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Historique de la conservation :

The King's Manuscripts are a manuscript collection formed mainly by the purchases of George III and by gifts made to him. The collection was presented to the British nation in 1823 by George IV. It was deposited in the British Museum (now the British Library), where it is kept as a separate collection, numbered as King's MSS. 1-446, although it is catalogued and indexed together with the collections of George III's predecessors on the throne, known as the Royal or Old Royal collection., In 1884, the National Archives of Canada transcribed King's MSS. 208 and 209, which contain Morse's report on Nova Scotia and the maps and plans that illustrate it. They originally constituted volumes 373 and 374 respectively of the old "M" Series.

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Originals with the British Library, London, England.

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Great Britain. Army - Colonial forces - Nova Scotia, 1784 "A General Description of the Province of Nova Scotia, and a Report of the present state of the Defences", 1784

Great Britain. Army - Colonial forces - New Brunswick, 1784 "uniting these Provinces with Canada", 1784

Great Britain - Armed Forces - Nova Scotia, 1774 Sir Guy Carleton, 1784

Great Britain - Armed Forces - New Brunswick, 1774 "employing an able man to preside over the whole", 1784

Military weapons - New Brunswick, 1784 Province of Nova Scotia, 1784

MIlitary weapons - New Brunswick, 1784 New York, 1783, 1784

Great Britain. Army - Officers, 1784 Geography - St. Croix, 1784

Great Britain. Army - Colonial forces - North America, 1784 St. Croix, 1784

Ammunition, 1784

United Empire loyalists - Nova Scotia, 1784

United Empire loyalists - New Brunswick, 1784

Loyalist settlement - Nova Scotia, 1784

Loyalist settlement - New Brunswick, 1784

New Brunswick - History - 1784-1867, 1784

Geography - Nova Scotia, 1784

Geography - New Brunswick, 1784

New Brunswick - Description and travel, 1784

Nova Scotia - Description and travel, 1784

Botany - New Brunswick, 1784

Botany - Nova Scotia, 1784@

Zoology - New Brunswick, 1784

Zoology - Nova Scotia, 1784

Settlement - New Brunswick, 1784

Settlement - Nova Scotia, 1784

Statistics - Nova Scotia, 1784

Statistics - New Brunswick, 1784

Nova Scotia - Population - Statistics, 1784

New Brunswick - Population - Statistics, 1784

Fortifications - New Brunswick, 1784

Fortifications - Nova Scotia, 1784

Great Britain. Army - Barracks and quarters, 1784

Barracks - Construction and maintenance, 1784

Firearms - Nova Scotia, 1784

Firearms - New Brunswick, 1784

Ordnance - Nova Scotia, 1784

Ordnance - New Brunswick, 1784

Great Britain. Army - Ordnance and ordnance stores, 1784

Nova Scotia 1784-1867

Canada 1763-1791

Canada 1763-1791 (Régime anglais)
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Documents textuels

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Volume [MG21 King's Mss. 208] 1

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Volume [MG21 King's Mss. 209] 1

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