APPENDIX 5

THE PRIMARY SOURCES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

Rollo, Andrew (fifth Lord Rollo) (1758) Letter to Admiral Boscawen, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Fleet in America. 10 October 1758. [CEA: typescript in the Placide Gaudet Papers: 1.35-25, citing: PAC: Chatham Manuscripts Vol. 96, pp. 94-96.]

Anon. (1762) Remarks relative to the Sketch of the Island of St John’s in North America [Hardwicke Papers, British Library: Add. MSS 35914, 95—99ff; and PEI PARO: 4615.]

Holland, Samuel (1764) Letter (dated 1764) to Lord Hillsborough, ’descriptive of the Island of St. John’. [Unpublished handwritten transcript, (Colonial Office Correspondence), PEI PARO Acc. 2324/8A.]

(1765) Letter (dated 4 March 1765) to Lord Hillsborough, ’descriptive of progress in Survey’. [Unpublished handwritten transcript, (Colonial Office Correspondence), PEI PARO Acc. 2324/8A.]

(1765) Letter (dated 8 October 1765) to Richard Cumberland Esq., Agent to the Provinces of Quebec and Nova Scotia, containing a ’Report of Survey’, to accompany an annotated ’Plan of the Island of St. John in the Province of Nova Scotia . [Unpublished handwritten transcript (Colonial Office Correspondence), in PEI PARO, Acc. 2324I8A.]

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Holland, Samuel (1765) ’Plan of the Island of St. John in the Province of Nova Scotia [with annotations] (dated 19 September 1765). [PEI PARO Acc. 0617C. This is a photographic copy (apparently the same size as the original, but sub-divided into a large number of separate sheets) of a hand—drawn copy of the plan made by C. Petticrew, P.R.O. 1931, (verified in the margin by H. P. Biggar as ’a correct copy’ on 24 February 1932).]

Rogers, Robert (1765) A Concise Account of North

America. J. Millan, London. [UPE|, Robertson Library: F5000. 035, no. 392]

Francklin, Michael (1768) Letters to Isaac Deschamps, 17 and 20 May 1768 (enclosed in a letter of 29 May 1768 to the Secretary of State, Lord Hillsborough). [17 May letter: Centres d’Etudes Acadiennes: typescript in the J.—H. Blanchard Papers: 22120, citing: Col. Corr. N. 8., Vol. 3, p. 143; 20 May letter: CO 217, Vol. 22, pp. 218-220v.]

Anon. (1768) Petition of the Proprietors of the Island of St. John in the Gu/ph of St. Lawrence to the King. 31 May 1768. [McKinnon, F. (1951) The Government of Prince Edward Island. University of Toronto Press. pp.

6-7; or Bolger (1973) Canada’s Smallest Province — A

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History of Prince Edward Island. P.E.|. Centennial Commission. p. 42, citing C.O. Vol. 27, pp. 168-69.]

Morris, Charles Jnr. (1769) Letter (with attached plan of the eastern part of Lot 13) (dated 12 January 1769) addressed to John Butler, Agent for John Pownal, Esq., proprietor of Lot 13. [Unpublished Seymour of Ragley Collection, Warwick County Record Office, CR 114A/562 & 567. Microfilm copy in P.E.|. PARO, Acc. 3485/1 .]

Patterson, Walter (1770, 1773, 1774)

Letter to the Earl of Hillsborough, 24 October 1770. [CO-226/1, fols. 11—12v].

Letter to the Secretary of State, 1773. [CO—227/2, fols. 129v-40].

Letter to the Secretary of State, 1 May 1774. [CO—227/2, fols. 42-50v].

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DesBrisay, Thomas (1770-1772) Advertisements in the Belfast News Letter, 2 March 1770; 29 January, 5 February 1771; 21 January — 19 May, 5 June 1772. [Also printed in: Royle, S. A. & Ni Laoire, C. (2002) DesBrisay’s Settlers. The Island Magazine, 51: 19-23.]

Anon. (1771) Letter, published anonymously in The Scots Magazine (October 1771) and in the Belfast News Letter (8 November 1771 ).

Anon. (1772) and Anon. (1773) Three letters, published anonymously in the Belfast News Letter (3 March 1772, 30 April 1773). [Also printed in: Royle, S. A. and Ni Laoire, C. (2003) "Do not send my dear babies here to starve” — St. John’s Island in 1772. The Island Magazine, No. 53: 12—15.]

House of Assembly (1773-1849) — extracts from selected acts of the Prince Edward Island House of Assembly up to 1873, relating to the forest. [Taken from various sources including: The Acts of the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island. [Vol. I]: 7773—7834,- [Vol. 2]: 1835-7842.]. James D. Haszard, King’s Printer, Charlottetown, 1834, 1842.]

Smethurst, Gamaliel (1774) A Narrative of an Extraordinary Escape out of the Hands of the Indians in the Gu/ph of St. Lawrence; Also A Provident/'al Escape after a Shipwreck in coming from the Island St. John, in said Gulph,‘ with an Account of the Fisheries round that Island. J. Bews, A. Grant, London. 48 pp. [Parts relevant to New Brunswick (i.e. pp. 1—26) were reprinted (1905) in Collections of the New Brunswick Historical Society, Volume 2: 358-90, edited by W. F. Ganong — omitting pp. 27—48.]