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Title:
PRO 30/55/085/030 - Autograph Letter from Rt Morse to Sir Guy Carleton
Date:
1783
Language:
English
Date from:
1783-11-01
Date to:
1783-11-01
Section:
2 : PRO 30/55 - British Army Headquarters Papers
TNA Shelfmark:
PRO 30/55/085/030
Full Description:
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Morse, Chief Engineer, Halifax to Carleton. Brigadier-General Fox has written to him from Campo Belo, an island at the mouth of Passamaquody Bay, on a topic which may become soon a matter of consquence. He feels it his duty to comment on them. Describes three rivers that empty into the bay , each called by different surveyors as the St Croix. [He has marked their details on an enclosed sketch]. The Copscork, or Western St Croix was the former boundary between Nova Scotia and New Hampshire. However, the middle river, the Scodiac, is a bigger river and in his opinion should be the true border between Nova Scotia and the American States. He opines that the river Mr Allen pretends is the boundary as being called the St Croix, is in fact the Majiggaducey. He urges early action lest the people from Penobscot are again driven off their lands and before military forces become involved.
TNA Link:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16553724
Format:
Handwritten
DOI:
10.1163/37612_WNA_PRO_PRO_30_55_85_30