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Series 1:Robert Monckton papers [textual record]

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Date:

1742-1834.

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MG18-MSérie1

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128874

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Northcliffe collection

Series 1:Robert Monckton papers
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Series includes:

789 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1742-1834.

Place of creation:

Nova Scotia

Extent:

0.98 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of correspondence, reports, journals, returns and orders, instructions and commissions, accounts, articles of capitulation, and related records of the campaigns in Nova Scotia, Quebec and the West Indies during the Seven Years' War. Included is Monckton's correspondence with Sir William Shirley, Charles Lawrence, Lord Amherst, George Townshend, Edward Boscawen and other prominent leaders (volumes 1-9); journals of the siege of Louisbourg (volume 10) and Quebec (volume 28); documents relating to prisoners of war (volume 33); documents relating to the capture of Martinique (volumes 44-50); and family papers. Volume 89 contains a list of the proceeding volumes (55 pages) and volume 90 contains the Catalogue of Monckton Papers offered for sale by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 1920 (47 pages). This material is available on microfilm reels C-365 to C-369. Not microfilmed were a list of Monckton's papers and a catalogue of Monckton's papers offered for sale in 1920. The Atlas (volume 56) was transferred to the National Map Collection of the National Archives of Canada.

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Monckton, Robert, 1726-1782

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Monckton, Robert, 1726-1782 : Military Officer, Colonial Administrator.

Robert Monckton (1726-1782), second son of John Monckton, Viscount Galway, was commissioned in the British Army in 1741. By 1752 he was a lieutenant-colonel serving in Nova Scotia. During 1753 he put down the insurrection of German settlers at Lunenburg. He commanded the successful campaign against the French forts of Beauséjour and Gaspereau, in 1755, and later supervised the expulsion of the Acadians. He was made Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia in 1755. During the 1758 siege of Louisbourg, Monckton was forced to remain at Halifax, forwarding supplies, but later that year destroyed some French settlements up the Saint John River. He was made second-in-command to James Wolfe in the 1759 campaign against Quebec. In 1761 he was appointed Governor of New York, a position he retained until 1765. Monckton crowned his successful military career as commander of the army that captured the West Indian islands of Martinique, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent in 1762.

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The full text is reproduced in the published calendar, pages 203-204. A copy o fthe Articles of Capitulation signed on September 1759 follows Wolfe's proposals. These final Articles were published in the Constitutional Documents (1759-1791), pages 1-7.

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Volume [MG18 M Série 1] 1--90

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Microfilm reel C-365--C-369

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