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BADEATJX  Journal des operations de l'armée Américaine en Canada, 1775-76, par J. B. Badeaux, Notaire des Trois Rivieres. Hist. Doc. Ser. 3, 1871.

 

FINLAY Journal of the siege and blockade of Quebec by the American Rebels in Autumn 1775 and winter 1776. Hist. Doc. Ser. 4, 1875.

 

"This journal is partly in the handwriting of Capt. Patrick Daly in the Royal Highland Emigrants (MacLean's) and from him I had it, and seems very correct and just. Who it was kept by, I don't know, but suppose Mr. Hugh Finlay may be the gentleman who made it for his amusement.”

 

"The above preface is in the handwriting of Malcolm Fraser, Esq., formerly Lieutenant in the 78' Regiment (or Fraser's Highlanders.) The MS. is in the possession of Honble. J. M. Fraser, who kindly allowed a copy to be made for the use of the L. &H. Soc." G. B. Faribault.

 

ANON Journal of the weather, kept at Quebec in the year of the siege by the Americans in 1776. From Quebec Gazette of 18 April, 1872. Transaction N.S. 22, 1898. THOMPSON Journals of Sergeant James Thompson, 1758-1830, in possession of Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. Description of Montgomery's Sword. Hist. Soc. Ser. 7, .1905.

 

MELSHEIMER Journal of the voyage of the Brunswick Auxiliaries from Wolfenbüttel to Quebec, by F. V. Melsheimer, chaplain to the Duke of Brunswick's dragoon regiment. Trans. N.S. 20, 1891.

 

AINSLIE Journal of the most remarkable occurrences in the Province of Quebec from the appearance of the Rebels in September, 1775, until their retreat on the 6 May, 1776. Thomas Ainslie (collector of Customs and Captain in British Militia in Quebec 1775.)

This journal forms part of the Jared Sparks collection in Harvard University, and first published by the L. & H. Society. Hist. Doc. Ser. 7, 1905.

 

ANON Journal of the most remarkable occurrences in Quebec since Arnold appear'd before the Town on 14 November, 1775. Obtained from Toronto Public Library. Hist. Doc. Ser. 7, 1905.

 

ORDERLY BOOK OF BRITISH MILITIA Orderly Book began by Captain Anthony Vialar of the British Militia, the 17 September, 1775, and kept by him till November 16, when continued by Captain Robert Lester. Siege of Quebec by Montgomery. Hist. Doc. Ser. 7, 1905. Original in Dominion Archives, Ottawa.

 

ROSTERS OF CANADIAN MILITIA Role générale de la Milice Canadienne de Quebec, passée en Revue le 11 September, 1775. Nouveau Role de la Milice Canadienne qui à fait le service pendent le Blocus de Quebec depuis le 14 Novembre, 1775, et qui le continura jusqu'au jour ou il plaira à son Excellence le general Carleton d'en ordoner autrement. Tenu par Gabriel Elzear Tasehereau, Ecuyer, Cap t. Aide Major de la Milice, 1775. Presented to L. & H. Soc. by Hon. Justice Tasehereau, May 1830. Hist. Doc. Ser. 7, 1905.

 

Roll of Officers of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Highland Emigrants (H.M. 84th Regt.) 1775-1778. Hist. Doc. Ser. 7, 1905.

 

ANON Journal of the Siege of Quebec 1775. Supposed to be that of an artillery officer, as Ms duties appeared to be chiefly on the Ramparts and in the batteries of Quebec. In the Jared Sparks collection of MS. in Harvard University, and published for first time in L. & H. Soc. Hist. Doc, Series 8, 1906.

 

ANON  Journal of the principal occurrences during the siege of Quebec by the American Revolutionists, under Generals Montgomery and Arnold in 1775-76. Edited by W. T. P. Short, with preface and notes, and published in London, 1824. Reproduced without, editor's notes or preface, &c, in Hist. Doc, Series 8, 1906.

 

MACLEAN Lt. Col. MacLean's letter to Johia Coffin. Hist. Doc. Ser. 8, 1906.

 

CLAUS Memorandum of the Rebel invasion of Canada in 1775, by Colonel Daniel Claus. In Canadian Archives Series Q, Vol. 13, p. 48. Published in L. & H. Soc. Hist. Doc, Ser. 8, .1906.

 

HALSTED-MERCIER Halsted-Mercier Papers, concerning property under Cape Diamond, 1775. Hist. Doc. Ser. 8, 1906.

 

II .— From Other Sources.

 

SANGUINET Témoin Oculaire de l'invasion du Canada par les Bostonnais. Journal de M. Sanguinet de Montréal.

 

BADEAUX Invasion du Canada par les Américains en 1775. Journal de .T. Bte. Badeaux, Notaire de Trois Rivières.

 

BERTHELOT Extracts du Mémoire de M. A. Berthelot, sur l'invasion du Canada en 1775.

 

DELORIMIER Mes Services Pendent la guerre Américaine de 1775. Mémoire du Chevalier de Lorimier.

 

LETTRES Lettres écrit pendent l'invasion Américaine en 1775-76.

 

CEDARS PARKE Narration Authentique de l'Echange des Prisonniers faits aux Cèdres pendant la guerre Américaine en 1775. Translated into French by Marcil Ethier, from "An Authentic Narrative of facts relating to the exchange of prisoners taken at the Cedars; supported by the testimonies and depositions of His Majesty's officers, with several original letters and papers. Together with remarks upon the report and resolves of the American Congress on that subject, by Captain Andrew Parke, who served in the expedition under Captain Forster.

 

The above six sets of documents were published by M. l’abbe Verreau, under the auspices of the Société Historique de Montreal in 1870-73. The Verreau papers are in Laval University, Quebec.

 

GAZETTE Quebec Gazette, 1775-1776.

 

LATERRIERE Mémoires de Pierre de Sales Laterrière et de ses traverses edition intime Quebec, 1873.

FOUCHER Siege fait par les Bostonnais des retrenchements à St. Jean an 1775. Journal de Foucher. Published in 1889 by Lucien Huot in "Siege du Fort St. Jean en 1775."

 

ANON REMEMBRANCER Journal of the most remavkaole occurrences in Quebec from the 14 November, 1775, to the 7th May, 1776, by an officer of the Garrison. Published in Almon's Remembrancer, London, 1778. Reprinted in William Smith's History of Canada, 1815. Reprinted from Smith in the collections of New York Historical Society for 1880.

 

ANNUAL REGISTER Annual Register, London, 1776.

 

LINDSAY  Narrative of the invasion of Canada by the American Provincials, under Montgomery and Arnold, with a particular account of the Siege of Quebec, from the 17th September, 1775, the day on which the British Militia was embodied in that place until the 6th May, 1776, when the siege was raised. William Lindsay, Lieutenant in the British Militia, 1775.

Canadian Review, Vol. 2 and 3, 1826. This journal ends on 31st December, 1775, by the stoppage of publication of the Review. Locality of the original is uncertain.

 

DOM. ARCHIVES Dominion Archives at Ottawa. See Archivist's reports dated 1891 and 1905.

 

LAUZON History of the Seigneurie de Lauzon, 3 Vols. 'Levis, 1897-1900. J. E. Roy.

 

TASCHEREAU La Famille Taschereau, by P. Georges Roy, Levis, 1901.

 

CONGRESS Journals of Congress, 1775-1776.

 

FORCE American Archives 4th and 5th Series. Containing documentary history of the English Colonies in North America, from the King's Message to Parliament, of March 7, 1774 to the definitive treaty of Peace with Great Britain, on 3rd September, 1783. Prepared and published by an Act of Congress, passed 2nd March, 1833. M. St. Clair and Peter Force, 1837.

 

STEDMAN History of the origin, progress and termination of the American War, 2 Vols. C. Stedman, London, 1794.

 

WILKINSON Memoirs of my own times, 3 Vols. General James Wilkinson, 1816.

 

ALLEN Ethan Allen. His Narrative of the Capture of Ticonderoga.,Burlington, 1849.

 

ARNOLD Arnold's Journal. A copy is in the Sparks collection in Harvard University. Published in full in Justin H. Smith's "Arnold's march from Cambridge to Quebec." New York, 1903.

 

OSWALD Captain Eleazer Oswald's Journal in American Archives, 4 Series, Vol. III. This is called the "missing pages of Arnold's journal."

 

HENRY An accurate and interesting account of the hardships and sufferings of that band of Heroes who traversed the wilderness in the Campaign against Quebec in 1775. John Joseph Henry. Lancaster, 1812.

 

This journal is counted unreliable as it was written thirty six years after the invasion, having been dictated by Henry from his bed a short time before his death, and was published without revision.

 

MEIGS Journal of the expedition against Quebec under Command of Col. Benedict Arnold in the year 1775, by Major Return J. Meigs, Published in Almon's Remembrancer in 1776, and in 1814 by the Massachusetts Historical Society, and in 1864 by Charles J. Bushnell, New York.

 

HADDEN Hadden's Journal and Orderly Books. A Journal kept in Canada and upon Burgoyne's Campaign in 1776-1777, by Lieutenant James Hadden, Royal Artillery, also orders kept by him and issued by Sir Guy Carleton, Lt.-Gen. John Burgoyne and Major Gen. William Phillips, in 1776-77 and 78, with explanatory notes by Horatio Rogers, Albany, 1884.

 

HENDRICK AND MCCOY Journal of march of a company of Provincials from Carlisle to Boston, thence to Quebec, by Sergt. William McCoy, of Captain Hendrick's company, said to have been given to Major Murray of the Quebec Garrison, was probably that published in Glasgow in 1776 and reprinted in Pennsylvania Archives, Vol. IV. Hendrick's Journal is identical in title and in text. (Justin H. Smith)

 

SENTER Journal of Issac Senter, physician to the Expedition of Arnold. Historical Collections of Pennsylvania, 1846.

 

THAYER Journal of the indefatigable march of Col. Benedict Arnold, from Prospect Hill Fort, in order to join the detachment which was going on a secret expedition. Consisting of two Battalions, one commanded by Lt.-Col. Greene, and the other by Lt.-Col. Enos, with all circumstances and particularly the difficulties that I myself have labored under, having the command of a Company of Foot under Lt.-Col. Greene, in the years 1775 and 1776.

Captain Simeon Thayer. Published in Historical Collections of Ehode Island Historical Society, Vol. VI, 1867.

 

TOPHAM Original Journal of John Topham of New¬port. Copy in Boston Public Library.

 

WILDE Diary of Ebenezer Wilde. Printed by W.

Stoddard in 1850, also in Library of Har¬vard University.

 

HUMPHREY Journal of William Humphrey, in Rhode Island Historical Society.

 

HEATH Journal of Lieutenant William Heath, of

Morgan's Riflemen. See Graham's life of Daniel Morgan.

 

HASKELL Journal of Caleb Haskell, private in Captain Ward's Company, May 5th, 1775, to May 30, 1776. Published in Newburyport, 1881. Copy in Boston Public Libray.

 

MELVIN Journal of the Expedition to Quebec in the year 1775 under command of Col. Benedict Arnold, by James Melvin, private in Captain Dearborn's Company. New York, 1857.

 

TOLMAN, WARE A journal of a march from Cambridge, on an expedition against Quebec in Colonel Benedict Arnold's detachment, 13 September, 1775, by Ebenezer Tolman, of Capt. Ward's Company. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. VI., 1852. Ware's Journal identified with Tolman (Smith.)

 

SQUIER Diary of Ephriam Squier, 7th September to 25th November, 1775. Contains the account of Col. Enos' retreat. Magazine of American History, Vol. II.

 

STOCKING Interesting journal of Abner Stocking of Chatham, Connecticut, private in Capt. Hanchet's Company. Published in Cat-skill, N.Y., in 1810. Copy in Prince collection, Boston Public Libray.

 

MORRISON George Morrison, of Capt. Hendrick's Company, account of the assault on Quebec. Printed in Hagerstown, Maryland, 1803. Copy in Harvard University, and Pennsylvania Historical Society.

 

DEARBORN Captain Dearborn's journal is in the Boston Public Library.

 

NICHOLS Papers of Francis Nichols, in Pennsylvania Historical Society

 

BRUNSWICK LETTERS Letters of Brunswick and Hessian officers during the American Revolution. Translated by Col. W. L. Stone, Albany, 1891.

 

RITZEMA Journal of Colonel Rudolphus Ritzema, of 1st New York Regiment, from 8 August, 1775 to 30 March, 1776. In New York Historical Society., Magazine of American History, February, 1877.

 

RIEDESEL, Memoirs of Madame Riedesel. Col. W. L. Stone.

 

JOHNSON Life and times of Sir William Johnson Bart. 2 Vols. Col. W. L. Stone. Albany, 1865.

 

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