51To George Washington from Colonel Henry Knox, 17 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
There is no other News here of Colo. Arno⟨ld⟩ than that from Colo. McCleans having burnt the House⟨s⟩ round Quebec...some timid & some malevolent Spirits who make this matter much worse—from the different accounts which I have been Able to collect I have very little doubt tha⟨t⟩ General Montgomery has Quebec now in his possession. I am with the utm⟨ost⟩ Respect Your Excellency⟨s⟩ Most Obdt...
52To Benjamin Franklin from Pierre du Calvet, 20 July 1784 (Franklin Papers)
Je Suis l’infortuné canadien, qui, le 17e. et le 20e. du mois d’octobre dernier, eut l’honneur de communiquer à vôtre Excellence a passi l’histoire de Ses infortunes, a quebec. durant le Sejour des généraux Américains dans la province en 1776. Je fis par leurs ordres des fournitures de toute Espece, jusques á la concurrence de 56,394 ...au dessus des loix á quebec, et depuis mon départ de paris...
53To James Madison from Jonathan Dayton, [16 January] 1813 (Madison Papers)
...the next Summer’s campaign, let me assure you, Sir, that there will be the most fatal disappointment. No force you can collect & send there, however great, can so far succeed as to reach & take Quebec by the first year’s operations. All you can do (& this is certainly very practicable) will be to take the whole of upper Canada, & all the British fortresses as low down as Montreal. ...Quebec...
54From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Cushing, 1 June 1774 (Franklin Papers)
I mention these Dates and Particulars that you may know if any of my Letters are missing. With this I inclose a List of your new Council, the Quebec Bill, an Abstract of the Resolutions for laying Duties in that Province, and some Newspapers containing the two Protests of the Lords,...The Quebec bill, which became law on June 22 to take effect on May 1, 1775 (14 Geo. III, c. 83), provided for...
55To James Madison from B. H. Cuthbert, 29 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
In event of a war with England, Canada presents to us the first object of conquest, a conquest trivial indeed, the strongly fortified town of Quebec excepted, but Sir this must be an object of import sufficient to excite a good share of attention. To
possess ourselves of Quebec by any of the common modes of war will assuredly not only cost time any treasure, but many lives, and to obviate...
56To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 28 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
Brigadier General Prescott surrendered next Day by Capitulation. What Terms General Montgomery has given him, I do not know as he was so hurryed in preparing to move immediately to Quebec, that he could not find Time to send them. Prescott & the Officers arrived here at four to Day. I have just recd a Return of the Officers, Men, Vessels & stores taken, which I do Myself......put Quebec (of...
57To George Washington from John Hancock, 19 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
...the American army outside Boston. Ogden at first declined to go, but after the Battle of Bunker Hill, Burr went to Elizabeth and persuaded his friend to come with him. Both young men accompanied Arnold’s march to Quebec in the fall of 1775 as unattached volunteers. Ogden was wounded at Quebec on 31 Dec. but joined the 1st New Jersey Regiment as a lieutenant colonel in March 1776. He was...
58To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 13 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
...our army with paper money. what the result will be I cannot say—Before this reaches you, your Excellency will probably have heard, that the greater part of a Fleet, of Victuallers and Merchant Ships from Europe for Quebec, have been taken by our Eastern Cruizers; Sixteen of which have arrived at different Ports....upwards of 40 sail from London, bound to Quebec, under convoy of two frigates...
59To George Washington from Philip John Schuyler, 22 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
raising, Major Volunteer Corps & some others, no Indians at Crown point, 31st in winter Quarters near Quebec, 53d at ...near lake St Peters, 29th at St Denis & St Charles near Chamble, 44th at Quebec. a Dutch at Montreal, 34th Regt at St Johns, and Isle au Noix with some Jagers—a great number of Batteaux at St Johns, repairing Batteaux, they do It every Spring. Expect some troops from Britain,...
60To George Washington from George Clinton, 7 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
...Canada were deputed
by the Western Nations (mentioned in his Lordships Speech) to confer with him on the
very Subject referred to in it, and that some short Time before they left Home those
Chiefs had set out for Quebec with this Object in View. They also Quebec Isle à Noux & St Johns are the only fortified Places in Lower Canada. Chamble & Montreal are...
61To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 27 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
—I shall answer the Gentlemen on the Subject of the Gundalo to Day—If the Account given by McChord be true it is much to be lamented that the Siege of Quebec could not have been immediately reassumed....other Vessel as speedily as possible for War, to keep the Mastery of Lake Champlain.” Carroll and Chase also reported: “John McChord Left Loretto in sight of Quebec on Monday last [13 May]:...
62To George Washington from Colonel Jacob Bayley, 26 February 1776 (Washington Papers)
That I had a Rumour of General Montgomerys Defeat at Quebec, but no Certainty, I wanted to know, that we might do every thing in our Power to strengthen and Encourage them....committees of safety. “We have here,” Bayley informed Wooster, “the Malancholy News of a Defeat of General Montgomery at Quebec, tho’ we are not Certain of the Truth of it yet think it our Duty to send Men not only...
63From George Washington to John Hancock, 12 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
all Allowances, he will be at Quebec the 20th Instt, where a Gentleman from Canada (Mr Brice), assures me he will meet with no Resistance.The Fleet mentioned in my last has been seen standing N.N.E. so that we apprehend it is intended for some Part of this Province, or New Hampshire, or possibly Quebec.
64To Benjamin Franklin from Francis Maseres, [1772] (Franklin Papers)
Mr: Maseres presents his compliments to Dr: Franklyn and sends him two more copies of the collection of Quebec instruments and the draught of a toleration-act;A Collection of Several Commissions, and Other Public Instruments, … Relating to the State of the Province of Quebec in North America, since the
65To George Washington from Simeon Thayer, 15 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
...an early age. He served in the French and Indian War before establishing himself in his trade in Providence. He raised a company of Rhode Island troops in 1775 and participated in Arnold’s attack on Quebec, in which he was taken prisoner. He commanded the defense of Fort Mifflin in the Delaware in 1777. He lost an eye at the battle of Monmouth but remained with the army until January 1781,...
66Barclay’s Independent Negotiation: Three Documents, [after 12 December 1774 and before 16 February 1774, 1775] (Franklin Papers)
The late Massachusets and Quebec Acts to be repeal’d and a free Government granted to Canada.Massachusets and Quebec Bills to be repealed.
67From John Adams to James Warren, 7 June 1775 (Adams Papers)
...., 1891, p. 312–319). James Price was a Montreal merchant sent by the other English merchants of that city to tell the Continental Congress about the conditions existing in Quebec. The substance of his report, derived from correspondence rather than from the report itself, which has not been found, was that although the French peasants would probably not act against the colonies, the...
68To George Washington from a Board of Officers, 10 September 1778 (Washington Papers)
The union of Canada, on which depends a permanent peace with the Indians—The Advantages
resulting from their Trade—The security of our Frontiers—and the evasion of the extended
limits of Canada by the late Quebec Bill,The Quebec Act of 1774 extended Canada’s boundaries south to the Ohio River and west
to the Mississippi River.
69To John Adams from Stephen Higginson, 8 August 1785 (Adams Papers)
...of the same Acts rendered less extensive and beneficial than before; our Oil was formerly a good and valuable Article to remit direct to London, our N: E. Rum when exported to Newfoundland, Quebec and Nova Scotia furnished us with large Sums in Bills upon Britain, and our new Ships when they obtained a freight in the British Islands for London and were there sold served very well as...
70To George Washington from Brigadier General William Thompson, 5 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
The wants of the Prisoners being many, I procured them Credit with Mr Freeman at Quebec for £630.9.8½ Halifax; equal to £945.14.6¾ Pennsylvania Currency, For which I have reced the following Bills and Cash viz....William Hendricks’s company of Thompson’s Pennsylvania rifle regiment when he was captured at Quebec on 31 Dec. 1775. Named a captain in the 9th Pennsylvania Regiment in December 1776...
71Conversation with George Beckwith, [22 March–April 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
” I am desired to explain this to You, and to remain a short time here, in case any information from home, subsequent to my leaving Quebec, may enable His Lordship to throw further light on this subject.[Beckwith] I have requested to see You as the time is drawing near when I intend returning to Quebec; I conceive it to be
72From Thomas Jefferson to John Page, 17 May 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
from General Sullivan which inform that the lower town of Quebec is taken and a breach made in the wall of the upper; but I do not know myself that there are such letters; and if there be, whether Sullivan mentions his intelligence as authentic, as he could not... ...Quebec himself. As to the articles of salt, blankets &c. every colony I beleive will be to shift for itself, as I see nothing...
73To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 13 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
Mr Mercer is a Merchant from Quebec he will soon be with Your Excey & give you a minute detail....from Montreal, the commissioners to Canada and Arnold informed Schuyler that on 6 May the American army at Quebec had been forced to retreat in great haste by newly arrived British reinforcements. “Our army,” the commissioners wrote, “are now on their way to the Mouth of the Sorrel, where they...
74To George Washington from Brigadier General William Thompson, 27 April 1776 (Washington Papers)
...soon as Col. Patterson’s Regiment marches from hence, I shall go to the Half Moon and see that Carriages are provided to forward the Troops from that Place, and shall take every method in my power to reach Quebec as soon as possible, tho’ from the many carrying places and embarkations I am doubtful whether we shall arrive in less than three weeks....if I can get to Quebec with my party...
75Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 30 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
and I might venture to say to the walls of Quebec: because on the 10 where he would land within 3. or 4. days and not meet a resistance which gives us any apprehensions. between that
place and Quebec there is neither post nor armed man. ...Quebec being ours whenever the season will open it to us, this last place will never be worth the blood it would cost. cut off from subsistence by the...
76To George Washington from the Gloucester Committee of Safety, 28 September 1775 (Washington Papers)
That yesterday morning a Brig was descover’d at ankor within Thatchers Island—Captains Somes & Smith in a boat went alongside and asked where from, and where bound, was answer’d from Quebec for [St.] Eustatia, they asked what they did there, the answer was they wanted Water—Sd Somes & Smith taking them to be enemies came ashore, and envited men to go off in boats and Seize her......at Quebec...
77From George Washington to Joshua Loring, 1 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
I desire that Capt. Dearbone who was taken at Quebec on the 31st decemr 1775, and whose Parole has not yet been sent out, may have it done by the first Opportunity, in the room of one of the Captains, and that Captains Trowbridge and percival of the... ...of Eight of the Officers besides Capt. Dearbone, who were taken at Quebec, which have never been sent out. I wish to have them among the...
78To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 28 September 1778 (Washington Papers)
The Royal Highland Emigrants was a Loyalist corps consisting of two battalions, one headquartered at Quebec and the other at Halifax. Lt. Col. John Small commanded the latter battalion. The corps was taken into the British army as the 84th Regiment of Foot in January 1779....Colo. McLane [Allan Maclean] left Canada in the Month of august for England. That the Garrison of Quebec consists of...
79To George Washington from Brigadier General Jacob Bayley, 10 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
This intelligence apparently refers to St. Paul du Nord, a village on the St. Lawrence River almost 200 miles northeast of Quebec.St. François du Lac is a village located where the St. François River flows into the St. Lawrence from the southeast about 100 miles southwest of Quebec.
80From George Washington to Brigadier General Henry Knox, 28 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
Court of Enquiry into his conduct at the attack on Quebec, on the 31st Decr 1775.[”] .... I believe soon after he returned from Canada on the subject of a report that was or had been in circulation respecting his conduct at the Attack on Quebec, which was rather injurious to his character as an officer; but what it was I can not now determine with precision. However I am rather inclined to...
81From John Adams to John Jay, 15 December 1785 (Adams Papers)
Joseph Brant, has lately arrived with Lt Governor Hamilton from Quebec, and the Indian has been presented to the King, at a Fryday Levee, I Suppose as a Colonel in the British service.—The Mohawk chief Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea), who visited England in 1775–1776, sailed from Quebec on 6 Nov. 1785 with the recalled lieutenant governor of Quebec, Henry Hamilton. Arriving in London by 7 Dec., he...
82To Benjamin Franklin from John Sargent, 19 June 1760 (Franklin Papers)
Sargent’s anxiety about Quebec dates this letter in 1760. ., June 17–19, 1760, reported that Brig. Gen. James Murray had sallied from Quebec with 3000 men and attacked a French army “supposed to consist of the greatest part of the force of Canada, as they were on their march to make an attempt against the said place.” Defeated with heavy losses......the deuce was thinking of Quebec? America was...
83To George Washington from Catherine Jandine Lamb, June 1776 (Washington Papers)
. States that her husband, Maj. John Lamb, commander of the Continental artillery in the northern department, was wounded and captured in the attack on Quebec and has remained a prisoner “near half a Year, waiting for that Freedom, which it is fervently wished the success of your Arms may obtain, both for him and his Country....: “Memorial of Mrs wife of Majr Lamb: prisoner in Quebec—N....
84Enclosure: John Trumbull to “Detector,” [ca. 20] October 1818, enclosure no. 2 in John Trumbull to Thomas Jefferson, 23 … (Jefferson Papers)
attack on Quebec were finished, were seen by, and received the most flattering approbation of, the first artists and connoisseurs in
85Instructions to Captains Nicholson Broughton and John Selman, 16 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
The Hon. Cont. Congress having received Intelligence that two North Country Brigantines of no Force sailed from England some Time ago for Quebec laden with 6000 Stand of Arms a large Quantity of Powder & other Stores...that Quebeck will fall into our Hands in a very short Time it may be expected that not only the above Ordnance Vessels: but others from Quebec & Montreal may come down & fall...
86To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 24 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
...previous Friday was 17 May. Hector McNeill (1728–1785), an experienced Boston ship captain who had commanded a vessel on Gen. Robert Monckton’s expedition to Nova Scotia in 1755, was living in Quebec and trading with Boston and the West Indies when the Revolutionary War began. Although Gen. Guy Carleton’s proclamation requiring all residents to take up arms for the king forced McNeill to...
87To John Jay from John Adams, 15 December 1785 (Jay Papers)
Joseph Brant, has lately arrived with Lt Governor Hamilton from Quebec, and the Indian has been presented to the King, at a Fryday Levee, I suppose as a Colonel in the British service.—This confirms and increases the Reports of a general Confederation of the Indian Nations against the......confederacy. After travelling to Paris he returned to Quebec in June 1786. Henry Hamilton (c. 1734–96)...
88To James Madison from William Bradford, 1 March 1773 (Madison Papers)
who observes “That change of time and place ought never to be indulged in the same act.” But in the middle of the last act the scene shifts from Quebec to London & the time is considerably advanced. He has, however, happily preserved all the Punctuality of an historian, which may serve to gratify the curiosity of those who desire to know how Quebec was taken. But [to] call this peice a tragedy...
89To George Washington from Colonel Elias Dayton, 19 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
This fleet carried British and Hessian troops bound for Quebec. Hessian officer Jakob Piel noted in his diary that his Lossberg Regiment embarked on 15 May, sailed on 17 May, and dropped anchor at midday near Staten Island, where Piel saw “ships which had the 44th Regiment... ...cleared coastal waters the next day, and passed near Nova Scotia, including Cape Breton Island, before reaching Quebec...
90From George Washington to Samuel Huntington, 9 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have been informed that large quantities of Goods, proper for the use of the Army, have lately arrived to the Eastward, in the prizes captured out of the Quebec Fleet....: “In the letter which I did myself the honor of writing to you yesterday (respecting the Cloths taken in the Quebec Fleet) I forget to mention, tho’ it was fully my intention to have done it, that the Cargo’s of those...
91Instructions to Reuben Colburn, 3 September 1775 (Washington Papers)
. On 21 Aug. Benedict Arnold, who was then preparing for his expedition to Quebec, wrote to Colburn from Watertown: “His Excellency General Washington Desires you will Inform your self, how soon, there can be procured, or built, at Kenebec; Two hundred light Battoes Capable of Carrying Six or Seven Men... ...from those People who have been at Quebec, of the Difuculty attending an Expedition that...
92Notes on the History of North America, [December 1786] (Hamilton Papers)
French establishments at Quebec:Mentions Quebec and a Lake in Nova Franica
93To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 10 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
If it be true that two Regiments moved from St Dennis and St Charles Towards the Little river, which I understand is 18 Leagues below Montreal, and that two others were preparing to move from St Ours to Quebec,Gen. John Burgoyne arrived at Quebec from England on 6 May, and Col. Allan Maclean arrived there from New York on 26 May (see Burgoyne to George Germain, 15 May 1777,
94Theodorus Bailey to Thomas Jefferson, 25 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
City of QuebecMap of Upper Canada. describing all the New Settlements, Townships, &c with the Countries Adjacent, from Quebec to Lake huron
95To George Washington from Colonel Benedict Arnold, 13 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
...item 152.
Although this letter is dated 14 Nov., the context indicates that Arnold wrote it on 13 November. See note 2 below. Pointe de Lévy is directly across the St. Lawrence River from the city of Quebec.March to Quebec
96To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 12 April 1776 (Washington Papers)
...from Montreal by David Wooster on 16 Mar. and Moses Hazen on 1 April, two private letters to Capt. William Goforth at Trois Rivières from Capt. Gershom Mott and adjutant John Brogdon, both dated 26 Mar. at Quebec, and an extract of an unidentified letter from Goforth. (All of these documents are in ...a skirmish near Quebec between some American troops and a small force of French... ...Quebec...
97To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 18 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
...to this Province where they are much wanted notwithstanding the Bostonians are not likely soon to take St Johns there is some danger of their Getting this Town and every other part of the Province except Quebec unless its soon supported by the Kings Troops, as to your Province [Nova Scotia] I am not under any apprehensions of its being over run by them they will never send men where let...
98To George Washington from Captain Nicholson Broughton, 2 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
...this Harbour for safety; we pursued her directly in, & found her to be a Sloop belonging to Enoch Rust of Boston, who last Spring had the Sloop cleard out from Hallifax with Provision for Quebec, the Sloop has since taken a Cargo of Provision from Louisburgh for the west Indies; contrary as we apprehend to the Association of the united american Colonies, the Owner now at Canso we have...
99From George Washington to John Hancock, 31 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
Captain Freeman, arrived this day at Camp from Canada, he Left Quebec the 24th ultmo in Consequence of General Carletons proclomation, which I have the honor to Send you herewith ...Montgomery the 1st instant that they were about 2000 Strong & were Makeing every preparation for attacking Quebec, that General Carleton had with him about 1200 men, the majority of whom are Sailors, that it was...
100To George Washington from Colonel Benedict Arnold, 27–28 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
in killed & wounded, near 500 Men, (This Account appears very imperfect) and that there were few or none of the King’s troops at Quebec, and no advice of our coming. Three Days since I left the principal part of the Detachment about eight Leagues below the great Carrying Place, and as our Provissions were short by reason of loosing a Number of...March to Quebec