Curtis, Thomas (1775) A Narative of the Voyage of Tho‘. Curtis to the Island of St. John ’8 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in North America, in the year 7775. [Manuscript copy in the PAC, published for the first time in Harvey, D. C. (ed.) (1955) Journeys to the Island of St. John or Prince Edward Island. MacMiIIan, Toronto. pp. 9-69]

Chappell, Benjamin (1775-1818) Daybooks. [The original and a microfilm copy are in the P.E.l. PARO: 2227 — the following extracts are from The Daybooks of Benjamin Chappell (2003), edited by LaVerne Chappell and indexed by Gilbert Hughes; published by the P.E.|. Genealogical Society, Charlottetown.]

M'Robert, Patrick (1776) A Tour through Part of the North Provinces of North America, being a Series of Letters wrote on the Spot in the Years 1774 & 1775. Edinburgh. [Reprinted (April, 1935) in The Pennsylvanian Magazine of History and Biography, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, edited and introduced by C. Bridenbaugh.]

Lawson, David (post 1777) A Coppy of the Misfortunes / met with since my landing the 8th of June 1770. [From a typescript in P. E. l. PARO (2663/1-31) which has been ’transcribed from a xerox of the original' by A. B. W. MacEwan — the original is in the Montgomery papers in the Scottish Record Office (SRO GD 293/2/79/5ll.

[Clark, Robert] (1779) A Short Description of The Island of St. John in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, North-

America. 3 pp. London (no publisher named). [P. E. I. PARO Acc. 4437]

[Bitten Ensign] (1780) The regimental log of the von Knyphausen Fusilier Regiment (8 September 1779 — 30 June 1780). [A copy (if not the original) is in the Hessische Staatsarchiv, Marburg, Germany; the excerpts below come from an English translation by L. Zimmermann, printed in the Spring 1987 Abegweit Review (Vol. 5, No. 2: 20-28) as: Excerpts from a Hessian troop log: ’Journal Regiment von Knyphausen’ (September 8, 1779 — June 30, 1780).]

Heyden, Captain Samuel et al. (1782) Letter (dated 30 November 1782) signed by six officers in the King’s Rangers, then stationed on the Island of St. John. Printed in the New York Royal Gazette, 5 March, 1783. [Reprinted by [Cambridge, John] (1796?, 1805) in: A Description of Prince Edward Island, in the Gulf of St. Laurence, North America R. Ashby & Co.; W. Winchester & Son; London. pp. 3—4].

Stewart, Peter (1783) Letter to Sir James Montgomery (the proprietor of Lot 34), 27 April 1783. National Archives of Scotland, GD 293/2/79/46.

MacDonald of Glenaladale, Captain John (1784) Letter (dated 29 April 1784) to his sister Helen MacDonald, accompanied by ’Private Instructions and Hints regarding the building of the House ...’

IP.E.|. PARO 26649 and 2664-154].

Hollingsworth, S. (1787) The present state of Nova Scotia; with a brief account of Canada, and the British islands on the coast of North America. London. 221 pp.

[UPE|, Robertson Library: PEI F5000.c35, No. 592]

Inglis, Charles (1789) Journal of Charles Inglis. Unpublished journal. Typescript copy in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia, MG1 479-82. [An extract is included in Warburton, AB. (1923) A History of Prince Edward Island. Barnes & Co., Saint John, N. B. p. 257]

Anon. (1789?) Petition of the Proprietors of Lands in the Island of St. John, in the Gulf of the River St. Lawrence. 3 pp. [UPE|, Robertson Library: PEI FC 2621. P48 1789M]

Cambridge, John (c. 1793) Letter to ’Friend Stainforth’ in the Letterbook of John Cambridge, 7792—1807. [P.E.l. PARO 2984/4]

Gray, Robert (1793) Letter (with a sketch plan of Lot 13), addressed to William Porter Gillick, agent for Captain Conway', proprietor of Lot 13 (dated 9 October 1793). [Unpublished. Seymour of Ragley Collection, Warwick County Record Office, CR114A/564 & 568. Microfilm copy in P.E.|. PARO, Acc. 3485/1 .]

Shuttleworth, Robert (1793) Letter to Sir Joseph Banks, 8 October 1793. [Printed in: Webber, D. A. (1992)

Robert Shuttleworth, the opulent gentleman from Morell. The Island Magazine, 31: 3—10.]

[Cambridge, John] (1796:”, 1805, 1818) A Description of Prince Edward Island, in the Gulf of St. Laurence, North America . R. Ashby & Co.; W. Winchester & Son; London. 16 pp. [Reprinted 1818 with additions]

[Robinson, Joseph] (c. 1798) To the Farmers of the Island of St. John in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 4 pp. [P.E.l. PARO: Smith — Alley Collection: Acc. 2702, Ser. 9, 684.]

Walsh, Edward (1803) Travel Journal. [an extract was published (1984) as ‘An Account of Prince Edward’s Island’, The Island Magazine, 15: 9—13 (with an introduction by H. T. Holman).]

Douglas, Thomas, Earl of Selkirk (1803) Diary / (5 August — 3 October, 1803, The Maritimes); Dairy V (30 September — 15 December, 1804, Nova Scotia.) [Published in 1958 as Lord Selkirk’s Diary 7803—7804. A Journal of His Travels in British North America and the North—Eastern United States. Edited with introduction by P. C. T. White. Champlain Society, Toronto.)

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