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Account book
89-1022 · Item · 1777-1793

This item is an account book which is bound in pigskin. Some of the accounts are related to the sale of clocks. Also included are notes with the following headings "To lay gild on glass", "To gild wood or stone", "To gild any metal", "To writ with silver letters", "To soften metal", "Numbers of an 8 day clocke", "To make yellow varnish", etc. It is possible that the owner of this account book was a clock-maker.
Reid family dictionary
99-1003 · Item · [1780]

This accession consists of one dictionary, of which the title page is missing. The oldest date pencilled in appears to be 1780. Signatures include Robert Stewart, William Reid, Mary Stewart, and John Stewart. The dictionary, referred to as "Old Noah" by the Reid family, was passed down through several generations of Reid family. It originated in Ireland, and was brought to Canada by Robert and Maria Reid.

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Prince Edward Island. 26 Holland, Samuel, 1728-1801. A map of the Island of St. John, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence divided into counties and parishes and the lots as granted by Government to which are added the soundings round the coast & harbours improved from the late survey of Captain Holland. [London, Sayer & Bennett, 6 April, 1775] From: The North American Pilot for Newfoundland, Labradore, the Gulf and River St. Laurence. Chart XIII
87-001/MC11(24) · Item · 1775
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
St. Lawrence River. 25 Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771 An exact chart of the River St. Laurence from Fort Frontenac to the Island of Anticosti showing the soundings rocks, shoals, etc. with views of the lands and all necessary instructions for navigating that river to Quebec. London, Robert Sayer, May 25, 1775. Originally published: Lond, Thomas Jefferys at Charing Cross, Jan. 25, 1757. Phillips maps p. 762. Phillips Atlases 1165, map no. 9
87-001/MC11(28) · Item · 1775
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
Lake Champlain. 8 Holland, Samuel, 1728-1801. A chorographical map of the country between Albany, Oswego, Fort Frontenac, and Les Trois Rivieres, exhibiting all the grants made by the French governors on Lake Champlain and between that Lake and Montreal. Drawn from authentic surveys by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty. London, 1775. Title in one long line along the top outside the border line. Subsidiary title of a two sheet map: The Provinces of New York and New Jersey ... and the Governments of Trois Rivieres and Montreal. Drawn by Capt. Holland. Engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty. [London] Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street and T. Jefferys in the Strand [1775]. Phillips Atlases 1196, map no. 33
87-001/MC11(13) · Item · 1775
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
Nova Scotia. 27 A map of the South Part of Nova Scotia and its Fishing Banks with two inserts: A Plan of Halifax Survey'd by M(oses) Harris, and, A View of Halifax drawn from ye top mast head. From: The English Pilot, the fourth book, describing the West-India Navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the river Amazones... Map no. 14. Dublin, 1767. Map also has cartouche: To the right Honble the Lords Comission for Trade and plantations. No author given. Phillips notes the map was probably inserted. Appears to be based on Thomas Jefferys' map of 1750
87-001/MC11(20) · Item · 1767
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
Quebec (Que.). 1760 Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771 An authentic plan of the River St. Laurence from Sillery, to the Fall of Montmorenci, with the operations of the Siege of Quebec under the Command of Vice-Adml. Saunders & Major Genl. Wolfe down to the 5. Sepr. 1759. Drawn by a Captain in His Majesties Navy. [London?] 1760. "This map is dedicated to the Right Honourable William Pitt Esqr...." Includes two inset maps: Part of the Upper River of St. Laurence, and A View of the action gained by the English Sepr. 13 1759 near Quebec brought from thence by an Officer of Distinction
87-001/HMC34 · Item · 1760
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
Louisbourg (N.S.). 1758 Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771 [Two maps of Louisbourg: the first:] A Plan of the city and fortifications of Louisburg from a survey made by Richard Gridley, Lieut. Coll. of the Train of Artillery in 1745. "This important Frenc fortress was taken on the 17th of June 1745 after a siege of 49 days by nine Regiments (that were raised & equiped in 50 days in New England) and commanded by Sr. Willm. Pepperill, assisted by a Fleet under the command of Commodore Warren, with the loss of 101 men killed and 30 that died by sickness. This place was afterwards restored to the French by the Treaty of Aix la Chapel." by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to the Prince of Wales at Charing Cross, Oct. 9, 1758. [The second:] A plan of the city and harbour of Louisburg, with the French batteries that defended it and those of the English, shewing that part of Gabarus Bay in which they landed, and the ground on which they encamped during the Siege in 1758. This second map has an inset map: A map of Gabarus Bay adjoi
87-001/HMC15 · Item · 1758
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection
Hudson Bay. 1757 Bellin, Jacques Nicholas, 1703-1772 Carte de la Baye Hudson pour servira l'Histoire generale des voyages echelle de lieues communes de France par M. B.[ellin] Ingr. de la Marine, 1757. Coloured. 9 x 12 in. In upper left corner "Tome 14 in 4 No. 14"; in top right corner: "tome 14 in 8 Page 191". From: Charlevoix, Pierre Francois Xavier de, 1682-1761. Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France. Map no. ? See M. Bellin's introduction on maps in vol. III of Charlevoix
87-001/HMC01 · Item · 1757
Part of Robert Lloyd Hunter collection