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| V.1 Three Rivers in Lower Canada 1758-1766
| Regimental returns, orders, accounts and papers during Haldimand's Command in Florida, 1763-1774 | General orders and instructions issued by Thomas Gage, 1763-1777 | Letters to Haldimand, from the successive Secretaries-at-War, 1778-1786 | Register of warrants issued for the extraordinary service in the army in Canada 1778-1784 | Letters written in 1777-1784 by the officers commanding at Niagara, V.1 | Letters (as above), 1781-1782, V. 3-4 | Letters (as above), 1783-1784, includes letters from Generals Washington and Lincoln. | Letters from Haldimand to officers commanding at Niagara, 1779-1783 | Correspondence of Haldimand and his secretary Robert Mathews with John Butler at Niagara, 1777-1784 | Correspondence of Haldimand with Guy Johnson, 1779-1783 V.1 | Correspondence of Haldimand with Guy Johnson, 1779-1783 V.2 | Correspondence of Haldimand with Guy Johnson, 1779-1783 V.2 | Directions to Mr. Pellycrew...manners and customs of the Indian Nations and a letter giving a sketch of the natural and civil history of the State of Pennsylvania. | Haldimand's correspondence with John Ross, commanding at Oswego, 1782-1783. | Haldimand's correspondence with officers of the Royal Navy, 1778-1783 | Letters from the officers of the Provincial Navy of Canada, 1778-1784. The greater number are written by William Chambers... | Letters from Haldimand to officers of the Provincial Navy of Canada, 1778-1784 | Miscellaneous papers relating to the Provincial Navy of Canada 1775-1784 | Letters to Haldimand and Robert Mathews, his Secretary, from officers of the King's Royal Regiment of New York, 1776-1783 | Letters from Haldimand to officers of the King's Royal Regiment of New York, 1779-1783. Haldimand's correspondence with Robert and James Rogers...1779-1784 Letters from officers of the Loyalists in Canada and others, principally to Haldimand. 1778-1784. | As above, V.1 | AS above, V.2 | Letters from Haldimand to officers of the Loyalists, 1779-1783. Haldimand's correspondence with Conrad Gugy... relating to the Loyalists, 1778-1784, Principally in French. | Haldimand's correspondence with various Inspectors of Loyalists in Canada, 1781-1784. English and French. With a few enclosures and letters from Loyalists, Returns, Accounts, etc. relating to the Loyalists in Canada.1778-1785. | Muster rolls...relating to the Loyalists and other provincial corps serving in America. 1776-1784. Musters of Townships and settlements of refugee Loyalists and disbanded soldiers in Canada, 1784. Surveys, journals, plans, etc. relative to the settlements of the Loyalists in Canada, 1782-1783. | Returns of provisions in store at Quebec, and forwarded to the Upper-Posts of Canada, 1778-1784. Monthly returns of provisions in the commissariat magazines of Canada, 1778-1783. | Memorials to Haldimand by officers and soldiers of the army 1778-1785...and from the Provincial Corps and Loyalists of Canada 1777-1785. 2 v. | As above, V.2 | |
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| A Data Base of 54568 of Names of Loyalists and their Associates Contained in the
British Headquarters Papers,New York City 1774-1783 | | |
| "Carleton's Loyalist index : database of 54,658 records", located in SPCL stacks. | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| 1 - 40 inc |
"The evidence does not suggest that the Executive Council met in separate meetings for its "land" and "state" work but, rather, that two separate agendas were presented at each meeting at which there were both land and state matters to be discussed. The proceedings and decisions were then recorded in different minute books. The line of distinction between "land" and "state" issues was not always clearly maintained in the two sets of minutes. Matters relating to particular land grants, leases and associated topics are documented in the land minute books. Land-related issues of a broad or policy nature, on the other hand, were generally considered to be "state" matters and are found documented in the "state" minute books. As a result, one finds records of land-granting policy, of the acquisition and distribution of Indian lands, of military reserves (ordnance lands transferred to civil control), and similar topics documented in the state minute books." -- from Library and Archives Canada, description found in Archives, State Minute Books of the Executive Council
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| Pay Lists, Abstracts of Pay
| Book of Payments made to Loyalists, 1783
| Relief of Loyalists in East Florida, 1789 - 1795
| Loyalists Quarterly Pension Lists 1788 - 1839
| Payments and Pensions to Loyalists 1810 - 1830
| Case of Fifty-Five Uncompensated Loyalists
| Payments to Loyalists 1830 - 1835
| Registrar General, Schedules and Land Rolls 1784 - 1922 vols. 1 - 8 Series A-IV
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| Consists of miscellaneous schedules and land rolls documenting various aspects of crown lands administration, especially the disposition of land. | |
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| A collection of speeches made by Col. John Butler to the Indian Allies. | |
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| North America - Historical Geography – Maps
| West Indies - Historical Geography – Maps
| North America - Historical Geography – Maps
| West Indies - Historical Geography – Maps
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| These 7 microfilms contain the assorted letters, bills, circulars, diaries, etc. of Thomas Merritt (v.1, reel 1), William Hamilton Merritt (v.2-40, reels 2-7), and Jedediah Prendergast Merritt (v.41-42, reel 7). Also included are records of the Chace-Prendergast family into which William Hamilton Merritt married.
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| A descriptive guide to the original Merritt papers in the Public Archives of Canada. |
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Joseph Brant,(Thayendanegea) born in 1742, was a Mohawk chief who helped gain Indian support for the British in the French and Indian War between 1754 and 1763. From 1763 to 1776, Brant and his tribe assisted the British in the American Revolution by attacking the American settlers. After the Revolution, unable to negotiate a land settlement with the American government, Brant obtained a land grant in Canada and he and his followers settled in the area now known as Brantford, Ontario, which was named after him. The last years of his life were spent seeing to the welfare of his people and translating the Bible into the Mohawk language. He died in 1807.
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One Reel, Series G ; v. 1-3 : from the Draper manuscript collection.
Note Original manuscripts in the custody of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
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| These microfilms consist of correspondence, journals, accounts and other records of Daniel Claus, his son William Claus, and his grandson Warren Claus, together with papers of Alexander McKee, Deputy Superintendent of Indian Affairs, 1794-1799, and Prideaux Selby (d. 1813), Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, 1797-1809. The McKee and Selby papers were acquired by William Claus when he succeeded McKee in office. The Claus family papers also include some of William Claus, Jr. (d. 1824), who served with the 54th Regiment, in Europe, Jamaica, South Africa and India; and John Claus (d. 1812) who served with the 84th Regiment. Volumes 1-12 and 13-19 form two overlapping series in basically chronological sequence. Commissions and land records (volume 20), notebooks and memoranda (volumes 21-22) and biographical and genealogical notes (volume 23) were largely separated from the main series. English translations of letters in Mohawk found within the first series of correspondence form volume 24, while the "Claus-Haldimand" correspondence relating to the use of Indians in warfare, 1777-1784, is found in volume 25 with transcriptions in volume 26. |
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| FC 3071.1 J37 J38 1972 | Microfilms "consist of correspondence, land records (including deeds), legal records, genealogical information, diaries, maps, memoranda, and accounts. The majority of the records ... are personal family documents reflecting the attitudes, interests, problems and way of life of the members of loyalist ruling class families." -- from the Archival Description in the Archives of Ontario. |
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| FC 3153 G83 A23r 1978 | Series A. General correspondence -- Series B. Militia papers -- Series C. Business papers -- Series D. Niagara District papers -- Series E. Indian papers -- Series F. Beamer papers -- Series G. Commissions -- Series H. Agreements, indentures, grants -- Series I. Miscellaneous. |
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| FC 3153 G83 A23a 1978 | Microfilms "consist of correspondence, land records (including deeds), legal records, genealogical information, diaries, maps, memoranda, and accounts. The majority of the records ... are personal family documents reflecting the attitudes, interests, problems and way of life of the members of loyalist ruling class families." -- from the Archival Description in the Archives of Ontario. |
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| FC3071.1 S5 S56 1993.
| Inventory of the Simcoe family papers, F 47 / prepared by Wayne Crockett |
| | Series F 47-1 to F 47-4; F 47-6 to F 47-10; F 47-12 to F 47-17.
Summary Fonds documents the lives of several members of the Simcoe family in the United Kingdom and Canada. They have been divided into five sous-fonds relating to the work of John Graves Simcoe, Elizabeth Posthuma (nee Gwillim) Simcoe, their son Francis Gwillim Simcoe, the eldest daughter, Eliza Simcoe and a general section covering various other members of their extended family. ; The John Graves Simcoe sous-fonds includes documentation of his service in the British army in North America and England, his five years as the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada and his unofficial pursuits as a land owner.
Note Reproduction of: original textual portions of the Simcoe Family Fonds (Fonds F 47), Archives of Ontario. | There is an additional reel of John Graves Simcoe Papers identified as MS 29 which is held by the William L. Clements Library, at the University of Michigan. Unfortunately their policy does not permit selling or depositing copies of their films in collections of other institutions.
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| E 195 J63 J64 2008. | CD-ROM | Collection comprises Papers of Sir William Johnson, vols. I-XIV; The papers of Sir William Johnson addenda,1979; Day calendar of papers; Johnson papers in The documentary history of New York State, vols. 1, 2, and 4; and Johnson papers in Documents relative to the colonial history of New York State, vols. 6-8 .
This collection of Johnson's papers represents a significant number of Johnson's personal and business papers. The collection consists of several thousand individual documents ranging from bills and receipts to correspondence to household inventories. The collection includes materials seized by the State during the American Revolution and other materials acquired subsequently to supplement the collection.
Included in this collection are correspondence, bills, accounts, records of public proceedings, official and military reports regarding Johnson as a land developer, records relating to Johnson's activities as a fur trader and his activities as Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Also included are papers relating to trade with the Indians; papers relating to Johnson's activities during the French and Indian War, particularly the Battle of Lake George in 1755; the construction of Johnson's homes, Fort Johnson and Johnson Hall; the erection of public buildings for use by the county seat in Johnstown, N.Y. and other papers reflecting Johnson's role as a prominent figure on the colonial frontier.
The collection also contains materials relating to Johnson's activities as a land agent for his uncle Sir Peter Warren. Johnson acted as Warren's agent shortly after his immigration to America and managed Warren's Mohawk Valley lands.
The collection was badly damaged in the 1911 New York State Capitol fire. Those documents that survived were published as Johnson Papers (see publications note). A published calendar of the collection was issued prior to the fire and the absence of particular documents is easy to ascertain (see publications note). The State Library holds other papers of Johnson and his family which are cataloged separately.
Note Sir William Johnson was a wealthy land owner and trader, controlling most of the lands in New York State's Mohawk Valley. Johnson served as the Superintendent of Indian Affairs and was appointed to the New York Colony Governor's Council. In 1755 he defeated a superior French force at the Battle of Lake George and was subsequently awarded a hereditary baronetcy. Johnson's relations with the Iroquois resulted in his gaining political and economic prominence. He was instrumental in relieving tensions between Native Americans and European settlers. Johnson established the city of Johnstown, N.Y. and was successful in obtaining its designation as the county seat of Tryon County. Johnson died at Johnson Hall, his baronial estate,in Johnstown in 1774 and is buried in Johnstown.
Calendar of the Sir William Johnson manuscripts in the New York State Library, compiled by Richard E. Day. Calendar includes an alphabetical index to correspondants
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| British Military and Naval Records, LAC RG8, 1, Series C General Introduction, page 111 Preliminary Inventory to RG 8, Series I published in 1954 page VIII Microfilm Conversion List, page XXVII Annoted version of E. Cruikshank, Inventory of the Military Documents in the Canadian Archives, page XLIV Copy of the Card Index held in the Reference Room LAC as of August 1977... (Follows Cruikshank) |
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| America and West Indies
Original Correspondence - Board of Trade
New York, | Vol. 1078: 1774-1781 America and West Indies
Original Correspondence - Board of Trade
New York, | Vols. 1079 to 1080: 1696-1727, 1738-1779 America and West Indies
Original Correspondence - Secretary of State
New York, | Vol. 1089: 1778-1782 America and West Indies
Original Correspondence - Secretary of State
New York, | Vols. 1103 to 1110: 1771-1780 America and West Indies
Entry Books of Letters, Commissions, Instructions, Warrants, Grants, etc.
Reports, Instructions, Board of Trade Correspondence
New York | Vols. 1128 to 1132: 1751-1779 America and West Indies
Sessional Papers (extracts)
Council; Assembly; Council in Assembly
New York | Vols. 1203, 1205, 1210: 1760-1775 America and West Indies
Original Correspondence - Board of Trade and Secretary of
State (extracts)
Virginia | Vols. 1332 to 1334: 1767-1781 Vols. 1335 to 1336: 1702-1774 Vols. 1337 to 1338: 1694-1753 Vols. 1339 to 1342: 1700-1717 America and West Indies
Original Correspondence - Board of Trade and Secretary of
State (extracts)
Virginia | Vols. 1342 to 1344: 1715-1783 America and West Indies
Original Correspondence - Board of Trade and Secretary of
State (extracts)
Virginia | Vols. 1352 to 1353: 1774-1777 America and West Indies
Original Correspondence - Secretary of State
Indian Affairs, Surveys, etc. | Correspondence of Guy Johnson with Lord George Germaine, Secretary of State for the Colonies, regarding the state of Indian affairs - relations with Indians in the Southern and Northern Districts; correspondence of John Stuart; material on trade in the colonies. Volume 77 1776- 1777 America and West Indies
Original Correspondence - Secretary of State
Indian Affairs, Surveys, etc.
Remarks on the management of the Northern Indian Nations:
discussion that the Indians consider themselves a free and
independent people who must be managed either by persuasion,
influence or awe of military authority, folio 12-, Daniel Claus;
correspondence of John Stuart and others; estimate of the expense
regarding general surveys in North America | Volume 78 |
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| Series consists of the petitions and related records submitted to the Executive Council Office of the Province of Upper Canada from 1791 to 1841 and to the Executive Council Office of the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1867. The arrangement of the Upper Canada Land Petitions preserves the original alpha-numeric reference assigned by the Clerk of the Executive Council. This alpha-numeric filing system, established in the late 1790s, is based on a close correlation between the petitions and the land minute books (available as Special Collections - Microfilm FC 161 C22 1991). The alpha-numeric references are based on the initial letter of the petitioners surname, or corporate name (the "bundle letter") and the sequence in which the petition was presented to the land committee (the "petition number"). Following the union of Upper and Lower Canada in 1841, the Clerk of the Executive Council of the Province of Canada continued the filing system developed in Upper Canada. The petition numbers reflect the order in which cases were considered and decided upon by the land committee. Within the series itself, each volume of petitions is prefaced by a list of petitioners. | ||
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| These petitions found on microfilm MS 691 reels 73 to 77, were removed from Series RG 1-58, Township Papers, when that series was being microfilmed and were then arranged alphabetically by applicant's name and placed in Subseries RG 1-54-2, "Petitions for Land", of Series RG 1-54, "Petitions relating to land received by the Crown Lands Department, 1827-1904". Sub-series RG 1-54-2 formerly was Series RG 1 C-1-1, Volumes 1 to 55, and Boxes 1 to 6. These records were acquired from the Department of Lands and Forests | ||
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| Index to the Upper Canada land books: Feb. 1787 to Feb. 1841, edited by Susan Smart, published by the Ontario Genealogical Society, c2007 |
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| Finding Aid 1802, a nominal card index known as the Upper Canada Land Index serves both the Land Books (Minutes of the Land Committee) in RG 1 L1 and the Land Petitions in RG 1 L3, for the provinces of Upper Canada, 1791-1841, and Canada, 1841-1867. The index was microfilmed in 1981 on reels C-10810 to C-10836; supplementary entries were microfilmed in 1991, on reels H-1976 to H-1978. |
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| Land Petitions, 1783, Clements, Peter to 1785, Carey, Edwards | ||
| Land Petitions, 1785 Carey, John Henry to 1785 Williams, Ellis | ||
| Land Petitions, 1785 Edwards, John to 1785 Husted, Jabez | ||
| Land Petitions, 1785 Hutchins, William to 1785 McPherson, Charles | ||
| Land Petitions, 1785 McPherson, James to 1785 Smith, Josiah | ||
| Land Petitions, 1785 Smith, Mary to 1785 Wilcox, Robert | ||
| Land Petitions, 1785 Wilkins, Thomas to 1785 Ford, John | ||
| Land Petitions, 1785 Forrester, George P. to 1786 Parker Timothy | ||
| Land Petitions, 1786 Partelow, Amos to 1787 Brundage, Nathaniel | ||
| Land Petitions, 1787 Burns, Daniel to 1787 Smith, Charles | ||
| Land Petitions, 1787 Smith, Edwards to 1788 Harris, John | ||
| Land Petitions, 1788 Hartshorn, John to 1788 Young, Francis | ||
| Land Petitions, 1789 Ackerman, James to 1790 Bell, William | ||
| Land Petitions, 1790 Betson, Thomas to 1791 Murphy, William | ||
| Land Petitions, 1791 McArthur, Alexander to Kollock, Simon | ||
| Land Petitions, 1793 Lee, Samuel to 1796 Knox, John | ||
| Land Petitions, 1796 Leonard, George to 1798 Raymond, Samuel | ||
| Land Petitions, 1798 Ried, Robert to 1801 Fraser Angus | ||
| Land Petitions, Additions 1787 to 1855. | ||
| Land Petitions, Index 1785 to 1918 |
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| New Brunswick & Nova Scotia grant books, Book 1 1784 NS Grants #1-#40 to Book 2 1784 NS Grants #44-60, #134-#146 | ||
| New Brunswick & Nova Scotia grant books, Book IV 1792-1800 NB Grants #243-#358, Book V 1800-1803 NB Grants #359-#422, Book A NS Grants #62-#70 | ||
| New Brunswick & Nova Scotia grant books, Book A 1784 NS Grants #71-#133, Book A 1784 NB Grants #1-#80, Book B 1784 NB Grants 1784 #43-#382 | ||
| Grant index, 1765 to 1848. |
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| FC 3154.45 B84 S69 1994 | The Butler Papers (4 vols.) | ||||||
| FC 425 P648 2003 | Loyalist Poetry: a collection of poems composed by members of the United Empire Loyalists' Association | Adrian Willison | |||||
| FC 3154.45 B84 S67 2004 | An Annotated Nominal Roll of Butler's Rangers 1777-1784 with documentary sources | ||||||
| FC 161 H36 1978 | Redcoats and Loyalists,1760/1815. | ||||||
| FC 426 M66 1994 | The Loyalists : Revolution, Exile, Settlement | ||||||
| F 146 F67 1907 | Forfeited Estates : Inventories and Sales (1778-1782) | ||||||
| CS 71 F453 2004 | Sweet Lands of Liberty : a historiogenealogy of selected branches of the Field, Douglas and Stockton families of England, Canada, and America | ||||||
| CS 90 S59 2007 | The Story Of A Family | ||||||
| FC 3070 L6 K58 1997 | Inventing the Loyalists: The Ontario Loyalist Tradition and the Creation of Usable Pasts | ||||||
| E 209 T43 1993 | Turning The World Upside Down : Inside The American Revolution | ||||||
| CE 209 T43 1993 | The Path of Destiny : Canada From The British Conquest To Home Rule, 1763-1850 | ||||||
| FC 426 U68 1967 | The United Empire Loyalists : Men And Myths | ||||||
| FC 423 B76 1984 | Victorious In Defeat : the Loyalists in Canada | ||||||
| FC 2920 L6 L69 1989 | The Loyalists of Quebec, 1774-1825 : A Forgotten History | ||||||
| E 236 W37 1997 | The Burning Of The Valleys : Daring Raids From Canada Against The New York Frontier In The fall Of 1780 | ||||||
| FC 426 B73 1932 | The United Empire Loyalists, Founders Of British Canada | ||||||
| FC 3071.1 S5 R43 1890 | The Life And Times Of Gen. John Graves Simcoe, Commander Of The "Queen's Rangers" During The Revolutionary War, And First Governor Of Upper Canada, Together With Some Account Of Major André And Capt. Brant | ||||||
| FC 423 R945 | The Loyalists Of America And Their Times : From 1620 To 1816 (2 vols.) | ||||||
| FC 3154.4 K57 1927 | Annals of Niagara; Edited With Introduction And Notes By Lorne Pierce | ||||||
| FC 3071 G85 1963 | Early Life In Upper Canada | ||||||
| FC 3070 L6 F78 | King's Men : The Soldier Founders Of Ontario | ||||||
| PS 8471 I73 Z83 | William Kirby : A Portrait Of A Tory Loyalist | ||||||
| FC 3070 L6 L694 1984 | Loyalist Vignettes and Sketches | and Garry Toffoli | |||||
| FC 3158.5 H57 1972 | The History Of The County Of Welland (Reprint of 1887 Edition) | Introduction by John Burtniak | |||||
| FC 3061 L69 1984 | Loyal She Remains | ||||||
| CS 88 H34 L69 1986 | Loyalist ancestors: Some Families Of The Hamilton Area | | FC 3070 L6 M55
| United Empire Loyalists : Pioneers Of Upper Canada | |