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Assorted United Kingdom Institutions ~ Fortress of Louisbourg Research [Some On Microfilm and thus available at multiple Canadian Institutions/Some Manuscript and thus available only at by the owner of the original]

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Centre for Kentish Studies

Amherst Manuscripts

Catalogue Ref. U1350
Creator(s):
Amherst family of Montreal House, Riverhead, Sevenoaks, Kent

CORRESPONDENCE

Sir Jeffery Amherst of Montreal, Riverhead (1717-1797)

• FILE - F.A. Strasburger - ref. U1350/C65 - date: 17 Jan 1771
  \_ [from Scope and Content] Boston: congratulatory letter seeking interest in his own projects; '... About 5 years ago I took the liberty to send you a Plan for fortifying Louisbourg and a short Project for finding out a North-West or West Passage, but I suppose you never received it..."
• William Amherst (Lieut. Gen., 1732-1781) and John Amherst (Vice Admiral, 1718-1778), brothers of Sir Jeffery
• FILE - William Amherst from Somerset house - ref. U1350/C4/3 - date: 8 Nov 1757
  \_ [from Scope and Content] Referring to the damage to Admiral Holbourne's fleet in the storm near Louisbourg; seeks advice as to applying to become Aid de Camp to Sir John Ligonier or to Lord George Sackville now a Lt. General; other references to military affairs including the sending of 900 men to the East Indies
• FILE - William Amherst from Whitehall - ref. U1350/C4/5 - date: 30 Dec 1757
  \_ [from Scope and Content] Referring to an 'affair of the Brunswick troops.' '... news I have had today... on vous fait General Major, et vous allez a Louisbourg, Commandr: you mention in your letter a pretty thing for a man who intends to be military, 'tis done, if you make me your Gallopin...'

OFFICIAL PAPERS

Sir Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst 
The American Campaign, 1758-63
Letters, etc. from William Pitt, despatched 1758

• FILE - Duplicate: the King's pleasure of the success at Louisbourg, approves joint plans of Amherst and Boscawen - ref. U1350/O20/3 - date: 9 Sept 1758
• FILE - Copies (2 each) of letters to Admiral Boscawen and to the Gov. of Louisbourg notifying them of Amherst's appointment - ref. U1350/O20/10-13 - date: 18 Sept 1758
• FILE - Copies of letters to the Governors of N. America except Georgia, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, and to the Governor of Louisbourg relating to the raising of men and money and also a copy of a clause relating to the provision of fresh supplies - ref. U1350/O20/19-21 - date: 29 Dec 1758
• FILE - Copy letters to Governors of Nova Scotia and Louisbourg and other colonies regarding the 1759 campaign - ref. U1350/O20/26, 27 - date: 29 Dec 1758

Letters, etc. from William Pitt, despatched 1759

• FILE - Instructions to provide Wolfe with molasses and rum for his troops, to make necessary hospital arrangements for the troops and to protect Louisbourg and Nova Scotia in their absence - ref. U1350/O21/1 - date: 13 Jan 1759
• FILE - Copy Secret Instructions for Brig. Genl. Wolfe ordering him to embark for Louisbourg and to take charge of the assault on Quebec - ref. U1350/O21/10 - date: 5 Feb 1759
• Letters, etc. from William Pitt, despatched 1760
• FILE - Copy order to Edward Whitmore, governor of Louisbourg to demolish the fortress and harbour defences of the town - ref. U1350/O22/20 - date: 8 Feb 1760

OFFICIAL PAPERS

Sir Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst 
The American Campaign, 1758-63 
Papers relating to the capitulation of Louisburg

• FILE - From Chv. de Drucour asking for passports for 'l'isle royalle' - ref. U1350/O30/21 - date: 27 July 1758

Derbyshire Record Office 

Wilmot-Horton of Osmaston and Catton [D3155/C1 - D3155/C2349]

Catalogue Ref. D3155
Creator(s):
Wilmot-Horton family of Osmaston and Catton, Derbyshire
Horton, Wilmot-, family of Osmaston and Catton, Derbyshire
Wilmot family of Osmaston, Horton family of Catton, Wilmot-Horton family of Osmaston and Catton

[Access Conditions] Open

Correspondence

• FILE [no title] - ref. D3155/C2227 - date: 24 May 1759

\_ [from Scope and Content] Louisbourg. Col Montagu Wilmot to Sir R Wilmot, Hopes to sail soon, blocked by ice most of the winter. Mr Wolfe has arrived and Mr Amherst is ready.

Durham Record Office

• Ref No. EP/Sto 58
  Appeals to overseers for assistance, correspondence, etc. including letter from seaman on Royal William referring to the capture of Cape Breton Isle, 1758, 1739 - 1817
  (1 bundle)

Public Record Office

• Admiralty

- 103/502: French Officers. 1755-1760. - list of the officers of the Louisbourg garrison, taken in 1758

• Ext (Documents and objects extracted from various record series)

- 1/244: 15 items extracted from BT 6/35. Various lists of ships and other vessels sailing into and out of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. 1789-1794

• Home Office (Records created or inherited by the Home Office, Ministry of Home Security, and related bodies)

- HO 44/31, ff 469-494, 1838, June 18. Major P Stewart RA, with evidence he has collected on the value of Cape Breton Island. Enclosing paper with observations on reform of government of the island, and an account of the siege of Louisburg

• War Office

- WO 12 Volume, 5718, Part 1, MUSTER FOR LOUISBOURG dated 12 June 1760. Covering the 183 days commencing 25 Oct 1759 and ending 24 April 1760. His Majesty's 45th Regiment of Foot, commanded by Lt General Hugh Warburton. (Captain James Clarke's Company, Captain Jo0hn Cosman's Company, Captain William Cotterell's Company, Captain James Cunningham's Company, Major John Fulliken's Conpany, Captain Stephen Gualy's Company, Captain Ralph Hill's Company, Captain Patrick Sutherland's Company, Captain Thomas Vaughan's Company, Lt. Colonel & Captain Montagu Wilmot's Company)

Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office

Pyke and Crook Families

Catalogue Ref. 1124 
Creator(s): Pyke family of Pewsey

Crook family of Wootton

• [from Scope and Content] Papers of the Pyke and Crook families of Pewsey and Wootton Rivers. They largely comprise vouchers of household and estate expenditure of Henry Pyke (father and son) of West Wick farm Pewsey and Thomas Pyke of Manor farm Wootton Rivers. They also include bills for work by blacksmiths, carpenters, doctors and, occasionally, for medical treatment of livestock. There are several school exercise books of members of the Pyke and Crook families, mid 19th century, the latter probably children of William and Elizabeth Crook and a group of papers of John Cannings of Fyfield, Milton Lilbourne 1738-1761 including church rates and a vivid first hand account of the taking by the English of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada 1758.

HENRY PYKE

• FILE [no title] - ref. 1124/7 - date: 1752-1758

\_ [from Scope and Content] 5 letters to John Cannings, Fyfield, Milton Lilbourne from Pitman Stagg of London. Stagg was born in Milton Lilbourne and was possibly a relative of Cannings and the letters disclose his attempts to enter the Excise in 1753 and then the army as a clerk of stores in 1757. He sailed from Portsmouth to Canada in 1758 and describes in detail the fall of Louisbourg in that year.

\_ [from Scope and Content] Louisbourg was a French fortress in Nova Socia captured and destroyed by the English under General Jeffrey Amherset and Admiral Boscowan.

York University, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research

The Hickleton Papers [HALIFAX/A4/1 - HALIFAX/B6/4]

Catalogue Ref. HALIFAX
Creator(s):
Wood family, viscounts of Halifax

[Access Conditions] Open

• [from Administrative History] The naval Commander in Chief of the exhibition was Admiral Edward Boscawen. He had ten line of battle ships, to which would be added a squadron of the Royal Navy already in Canadian waters. The troops, a total of some twelve thousand with artillery and ordnance stores, were under command of Major General Jeffrey Amherst. On 21st January 1758 Boscawen sent Rear Admiral Sir Charles Hardy in H.M.S. York to Halifax to take command of the squadron in Canadian waters, and to cruise with it off Louisburg, Cape Breton Island, the capture of which was the objective of the expedition. (Boscawen to Pitt, 9 Jan 1758. P.R.O. Colonial Office, 5/53.) The York was accompanied by H.M.S. Juno; but the two ships soon parted company. Hardy reached Halifax on 19th March 1758, and found the Canadian squadron almost ready for sea. About 5th April he left Halifax with the squadron for Cape Breton. The Juno did not reach Halifax until 11th April. She left on the 19th and joined Hardy's squadron. Hardy reported about 21st April from Cape Breton waters: 'The coast from Louisburg to the eastward is full of ice and as the wind is now southerly I think that nothing an get into this harbour.' (Hardy to Boscawen, no date c 21 April 1758, P.R.O., Colonial Office, 5/53.) Louisburg was successfully blockaded.
    

• [from Administrative History] Boscawen, in H.M.S. Namur, had left Portsmouth with the main force on 19th February 1758. He did not reach Halifax until 9th May There, two regiments from the American colonies joined his force. The expedition was held up at Halifax by contrary weather; but it was under way by the end of the month and on 2nd June 1758 reached Gabarus Bay, Cape Breton Island, and joined forces with Hardy's squadron.

West Sussex Record Office

The Buckle Papers 
Buckle family of Banstead, Surrey 
Naval and Military Papers 
Miscellaneous Naval and Military Papers

• FILE - The Whitehall Evening Post or London Intelligencer containing an account of the landing of British troops on Cape Breton Island and the besieging of the town of Louisbourg. - ref. BUCKLE/204 - date: 19-22 August 1758
• FILE - The Whitehall Evening Post or London Intelligencer containing an account of the landing of British troops on Cape Breton Island and the besieging of the town of Louisbourg. - ref. BUCKLE/204 - date: 19-22 August 1758
• FILE - Draft orders of Major-General Amherst, commander of the British infantry forces, regarding the landing of troops on Cape Breton Island and the besieging of Louisbourg. - ref. BUCKLE/205 - date: [c1758]
• FILE - Return of the killed and wounded of the several regiments involved in the siege of Louisbourg, 8 June-26 July 1758. - ref. BUCKLE/206 - date: [c1758]

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