New England soldiers in the St John River Valley, 1758-1760

New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 59-73

  Plank, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

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References (24)

1. Council minutes, 15 July 1755, in Thomas B. Akins, ed., Selections from the Public Documents of the Province of Nova Scotia (Halifax: Charles Annand, 1869), 258-9.
2. See also John Knox, Journal of Captain John Knox, ed., Arthur G. Doughty (Toronto: Champlain Society, 1914), vol. 1, 281-2; William Shirley to Charles Lawrence, 13 March 1756, in Akins, ed., Selections, 428-37.
3. See Robert Monckton, "Report of the Proceedings of the Troops," Collections of the New Brunswick Historical Society 5 (1904) 165-75;.
4. M.A. MacDonald, Rebels and Royalists: The Lives and Material Culture of New Brunswick's Early English-Speaking Settlers, 1758-1783 (Fredricton: New Ireland Press, 1990), 13-23.
5. "Diary of Sergeant John Burrell," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 59 (1905) 352-4; Journal of Enoch Poor.
6. "Diary of Sergeant John Burrell," 353. The makeup of the family appears in the Journal of Enoch Poor.
7. "Diary of Sergeant John Burrell," 354.
8. Muriel K. Roy, "Settlement and Population Growth," in Jean Daigle, ed., The Acadians of the Maritimes: Thematic Studies (Moncton: Centre d'etudes acadiennes, 1982), 125-61, at 154.
9. See Fred Anderson, A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War (New York: Norton, 1984), 65-6.
10. "Diary of Sergeant John Burrell," 354.
11. "Diary of Sergeant John Burrell," 352.
12. "Diary of Sergeant John Burrell," 353.
13. "Diary of Sergeant John Burrell," 352.
14. Monckton, "Report," 167.
15. "Diary of Sergeant John Burrell," 352.
16. "Diary of Sergeant John Burrell," 352.
17. Other New Englanders would arrive to settle in the valley in the 1760s, including some veterans who had fought elsewhere in North America during the Seven Years' War. See D. Murray Young, "Planter Setdements in the St. John Valley," in Margaret Conrad, ed., They Planted Well: New England Ptonters in Maritime Canada (Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1988), 29-35;.
18. MacDonald, Rebels and Royalists, 24-42.
19. Monckton, "Report," 172.
20. Knox, Journal, vol. 1, 297.
21. See, for example, Robert Dinwiddie to Shirley, 29 July 1755, in R.A. Brock, ed., The Official Records of Robert Dinwiddie, 2 vols. (Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1884), 2:130-1.
22. Circular letter of Lawrence, 11 August 1755, Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, 3 (1883), 82.
23. See Philip Lawson, The Imperial Challenge: Quebec and Britain in the Age of the American Revolution (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990).
24. The Oxford English Dictionary (2d. ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), vol. 7, 330.