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Events from the year 1723 in Canada.

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Historical documents[edit]

Indigenous peoples previously unknown in New York come from as far away as Michilimackinac and Miami lands to trade[3]

Five Nations (now Six with acceptance of Tuscarora) receive scores of "far Indians" from Michilimackinac to be seventh nation[4]

Abenaki tell priest to "conquer" himself to learn their ways, as they did "to believe that which we do not see" (Note: "savage" used)[5]

"Englishmen!" - Note left for enemy at Nanrantsouak assures them of Abenaki revenge that will not "end but with the world"[6]

Massachusetts fights "wrangling war" with Indigenous people while supplying them "powder and shot[...], to murther ourselves"[7]

Governors of Massachusetts and Canada exchange series of letters arguing which is right in New England's war with Abenaki[8]

"Insolent letter" of governor of Canada warns Massachusetts that French will enter war unless "Bounds of the Indians Land" are settled[9]

New York Council approves treaty whereby Five Nations will assist Massachusetts in war with "Eastern Indians"[10]

Governor Dummer welcomes leaders of Haudenosaunee and other nations to Boston pursuant to their treaty with Massachusetts[11]

New York governor says French risk losing influence with Five Nations who are helping Massachusetts fight French-allied "Algonkins"[12]

"Those cruel Monsters" - Newspaper reports of Indigenous men attacking settlers at Northfield and Rutland[13]

"Cagnowago" men "are very sorry and ashamed" for taking part in raid on Northfield, Massachusetts[14]

"We shall generally observe that the politest Indians were farther remov'd from both the Poles" (Note: "brutal" and other racial stereotypes)[15]

Naval timber of future New Brunswick cheaper than New England's, and Canso can become "most considerable[...]port in America"[16]

Pirates have taken upwards of 20 French vessels near Île Royale, including 22-gun warship, and similar number on Grand Banks[17]

With loss of Placentia, French government encourages Île-Royale (Cape Breton Island) with duty exemption on fish and fish oil[18]

Quoting John Locke's essay on civil government, St. John's residents "embody ourselves into a community for[...]mutual preservation"[19]

"Very great help to the trade" - Salmon fishery set up "on Great and Little Salmonier, Corret and Bisca Bay Rivers," Newfoundland[20]

"Highly injur'd" - Merchants complain about overbearing Newfoundland garrison officers fishing and trading to foreign parts[21]

Newfoundland survey answers include: more liquor sold on Sunday, and servants and New England merchants are paid in fish[22]

Illustration: Highly imaginative depiction of Indigenous people carrying coffin in grand procession[23]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
  2. ^ Gibbs, G. C. (September 2004; online edn, January 2006) "George I (1660–1727)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10538. Retrieved 30 July 2007 (subscription required).
  3. ^ "Papers Relating to an Act...for Encouragement of the Indian Trade..." The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada, Which Are Dependent on the Province of New-York[...] (1747), pgs. 21-2 following Part II. Accessed 2 March 2021
  4. ^ "605 Governor Burnet to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (June 25, 1723), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 5 March 2021
  5. ^ Letter of Sébastien Rasles (Narantsouak, October 12, 1723), The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. LXVII. Accessed 3 March 2021 http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_67.html (scroll down to Page 139)
  6. ^ "805 xi Translation of notice 'found upon the Church door at Norridgewack'" Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 5 March 2021
  7. ^ 530 Report of Thomas (?Moore; Boston, May 16, 1723) Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 4 March 2021
  8. ^ 805 iii, iv, v, viii Letters of Gov. Shute and Gov. Vaudreuil (various dates, 1721-3)), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 5 March 2021
  9. ^ "Boston, November 25" The (Philadelphia) American Weekly Mercury, No. 208 ("From Thursday December 5th, to Tuesday December 10th, 1723"), pg. 134. Accessed 8 March 2021
  10. ^ 550 Letter of Governor William Burnet (May 29, 1723), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 5 March 2021
  11. ^ "Boston August 26" The (Philadelphia) American Weekly Mercury, No. 194 ("From Thursday August 29th, to Thursday September 5th, 1723"), pg. 96. Accessed 8 March 2021
  12. ^ 791 Letter of Governor Burnet (December 16, 1723), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 5 March 2021
  13. ^ "Boston August 19" The (Philadelphia) American Weekly Mercury, No. 193 ("From Thursday August 22d, to Thursday August 29th, 1723"), pg. 94. Accessed 8 March 2021
  14. ^ 805 ix, x Letters of John (Johannes?) Schuyler (Albany, December 6 and November 28, 1723), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 5 March 2021
  15. ^ "Esquimaux" Canada, or New-France (1723?), pg. 196. Accessed 26 April 2021
  16. ^ 766 i Governor's report on Nova Scotia (November 28, 1723), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 5 March 2021
  17. ^ "New York, September 23" The (Philadelphia) American Weekly Mercury, No. 198 ("From Thursday September 26th, to Thursday October 4th, 1723"), pg. 106. Accessed 8 March 2021
  18. ^ "Extract from Savary's Dictionaire de Commerce" The Great Importance of Cape Breton[...] (1746), pgs. 35-6. Accessed 2 March 2021
  19. ^ "59 Proceedings of the Harbour of St. Johns on 26th Nov., 1723" Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 34, 1724-1725. Accessed 12 March 2021
  20. ^ "730 Commodore H. Cayley to the Council of Trade and Plantations" ("Dover, at St. John's, N.fland," October 19, 1723), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 5 March 2021
  21. ^ Samuel Baker and 11 others, "475 Petition of London Merchants Trading to Placentia to the Council of Trade and Plantations" ("Read 21st March, 1722/3"), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 4 March 2021
  22. ^ "1. ...Answers to Heads of Enquiry relating to the Fishery and Trade of Newfoundland, 1723" Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 34, 1724-1725. Accessed 12 March 2021
  23. ^ B. Picart, Convoi funêbre des peuples du Canada (1723). Accessed 3 March 2021
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