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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… bombs, but no men. A new fort of stone is building at Quebec. Three hundred paces of it are already ten feet high, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Albany to Cadaraqui and a journal of his marches towards Quebec in 1690. The Jamaica merchants presented a paper of … called Corlaer's Lake, and so to Montreal and thence to Quebec. Our way a continued swamp of stately white pine. From …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Thus we have one Schuyler at Albany who, while I was at Quebec in 1691, made one of the most vigorous and glorious … is not less than about 200,000 per annum. While I was at Quebec they reckoned to have had much above that value in the … south side of the Isle of Orleans some seven leagues to Quebec without danger. There are settlements on this side of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… I forgot to say to you what charges you have been at for Quebec, and how much more requisite it would be to incur some … English Plantation. One-fourth of what you have spent at Quebec will put New France into such a condition that it will yield more in one year than Quebec in forty. The country is extraordinary good for wine, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… come yearly to Placentia to buy fish and return with it to Quebec, which is the chiefest place on that coast. The Bay of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… which we supose to be intended for the carrying men from Quebec to Montreal, in order to be ready to attempt something …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Aug. 1718, 1711, relating to the Expedition against Quebec. Indians bring between 7 and 800 warriors for the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… great numbers of them to live in the French country near Quebec. If the Assembly can be brought to some immediate … will come by the King's ship which will only arrive at Quebec at the end of August, etc. Nothing will be done in the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1/2 pp . 740. xiv. M. de Vaudreuil to Lt. Governor Dummer, Quebec, Oct. 29, 1724. I am surprised that you have not seen … slain and scalpt, and his scalp carried in triumph to Quebec etc. As to the claim of Penobscot, I have no … company they carried four into Penobscot, three of them to Quebec, where the French received the Indians with …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Some of the principal sachems of the Senecas are gone to Quebec, we fear, to make over Tierondequat to Governor …