1From John Adams to John Jay, 25 October 1785 (Adams Papers)
Quebec &c. His Lordship would not even affirm or deny, what M the Bill was unnecessary.— Quebec could supply Newfoundland—if not England could. & the Trade of G. B. & her Colonies should not be delivered over to a foreign Power. That the Avarage Prices of bread and Flour in G. Britain had...
2To 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...
3To 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...
4From 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...
5To 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)...
6Notes on the History of North America, [December 1786] (Hamilton Papers)
French establishments at Quebec:Mentions Quebec and a Lake in Nova Franica
7To George Washington from Thomas Marshall, 12 February 1789 (Washington Papers)
...turned to land speculation. During the Revolution he operated a fur trading company at Pittsburgh in partnership with Joseph Simon. Campbell was taken prisoner on the Ohio around 1779 and was confined in Detroit and Quebec until the end of the war. By the late 1780s he claimed some four thousand acres of land, much of it in the area of the Falls of the Ohio (now Louisville). Campbell...
8To George Washington from Robert Dick, 14 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
The enclosure was a copy in Dick’s writing of a 1787 report of the committee of the council of Quebec to Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester, the governor of Canada, signed by Edward Harison, John Colins, George Pownal, and William Grant and describing in detail the economic activities of the province under a number of headings: “Commerce... ...Quebec Flour & Timber,” “Spanish & Portugal Wine and...
9To Benjamin Franklin from Pierre Huet de La Valinière, with Franklin’s Note for a Reply, 3 September 1784 (Franklin Papers)
Since the French cession of Canada to Great Britain in 1763, Britain had denied entrance to any additional French-born priests; its commitment to this policy was only strengthened by the Franco-American alliance: Luca Codignola, “Le Quebec et les prêtres savoyards, 1779–1784: les dimensions internationales d’un echec,” (Quebec, 2009), pp. 22, 24, 280–93.
10To James Madison from Edward Carrington, 31 May 1788 (Madison Papers)
I had the pleasure to inclose you by the last post the British Act of Parliament upon the subject of our Trade. You will now receive in one of the papers inclosed an ordinance of the Province of Quebec, for regulating the inland Commerce of that Province with the Neighbouring States, or in other words the U. S....of carrying them; and that of Quebec leads to another object, more remote...
11To George Washington from Robert Dick, 28 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
The report of the Committee of Council at Quebec to Lord Dorchester was sent early in the last Spring by a Gentleman of Glasgow to a friend of mine, as an authentick paper transmitted to the British Ministry....of Quebec was not formally divided into Upper and Lower Canada until the passage of the Constitutional Act of 1791, the division of the old province had been under discussion since the...
12To James Madison from William Grayson, 22 November 1786 (Madison Papers)
...some leading Persons in Canada, but whether with or without the Consent or Connivance of the british Government, is still to be ascertained. There is so much Evidence of their having sent Emissaries to Quebec, and of Propositions made to and received by them from a Character of Distinction there, that I am induced to think there is at least some Truth in it.… Intimations have been given...
13To Benjamin Franklin from Du Calvet, 24 September 1784 (Franklin Papers)
Que c’étoit pour le compte de l’amérique que la tirannie du général haldimand m’avoit Si cruellement opprimé á quebec, circonstance, qui Semble faire á Son honneur une loi de m’aider á en tirer une éclatante vengeance, au tribunal des loix. Cette vengeance légale me dévient aujourd’hui impossible, S’il faut que j’en Sois... ...Se prêparoit á partir de quebec, pour les êtats unis, dans la vüe...
14To Benjamin Franklin from Du Calvet, 4 January 1785 (Franklin Papers)
...la poste, il n’est pas difficile de deviner la cause, qui la prolongeé Si ong tems Sur la route, avant de parvenir jusqu’a moi; les Soupçons et la malice du despotisme ne Sont pas confinés á québec; ils regnent á londres, avec moins d’audace peut être, mais avec non moins de réalité, qu’oi qu’en exercice dans les ténébres et Sous le masque; ils m’ont porté et ils ne cessent encor......Quebec...
15To George Washington from Udny Hay, 16 December 1784 (Washington Papers)
In December 1775 Udny and Charles Hay, Scottish brothers living in Canada, left Quebec City on the approach of Gen. Richard Montgomery. Charles Hay returned in 1776, but his brother first joined Moses Hazen’s 2d Canadian Regiment in the American army and subsequently transferred to the commissary department, reaching the rank......Charles Hay at Quebec on 15 April 1780 on grounds that...
16To Thomas Jefferson from John Paul Jones, 9 August 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
...balle, plusieurs pierriers et autres armes; chargé de cables, cordage, et toile a voile, enfin tout ce qu’il faut en ce genre pour le grément de sept Batiments de guerre, avec plusieurs autres effets, destinés pour Quebec; et le ...Havre, says the result of his letter to a broker in London was, that those Quebec ships were worth 16 or 18 thousand pounds each. I have reason to believe...
I hear that the Circumstance of Congress having ordered some Troops to be raised, excited the Attention of the british Ministry, and induced them to order two Regiments to embark for Quebec—A Packet was preparing to sail for that Place on the first Wednesday in last Month with Dispatches, which perhaps it was not thought expedient to convey there through our Country.—...of Quebec, as...
18Thomas Cushing to John Adams, 16 August 1784 (Adams Papers)
You have doubtless been Informed that Congress the last year Sent Baron Stuben to the Governor of the Province of Quebec to Demand the delivery of all those Posts that fell within the Jurisdiction of the United States by the Definitive Treaty, & that The Governor Informed him that he had not received the Ratification of the Treaty but supposed......William Hull to proceed to Quebec and deliver...
19To George Washington from Henry Lee, Jr., 11 November 1786 (Washington Papers)
...with G. Britain, & it is not improbable but that the convention now sitting will formally make propositions of this nature to Lord Dorchester (Sir Guy Carleton) who is arrived at Quebec with plenipotentiary powers as Governor General of British america—they also declare their willingness to establish an imperial government in the U-States and I beleive could they be indulged with their...
20II. Answers to Soulés’ Queries, [13–18 September 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
On the fall of Montgomery and his aids at Quebec, there were present Colo. Campbell and Major Dubois. Campbell, tho’ having the rank of Colonel was only of the staff; Dubois was of the line. The usage of all nations therefore authorised the latter to take......truth, and who was at the latter part of the affair of Quebec. He was at the surprise of Ticonderoga by Allen, and continued with the...
21Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 28 April 1787 (Adams Papers)
Lord Dorchester (Sir Guy Carleton), former commander of the British troops in America, was re-appointed governor of Quebec on 11 April 1786. William Smith (1728–1793), former chief justice of New York, served as Carleton’s chief justice of Quebec beginning in either 1785 or 1786. Smith left America for London after the evacuation of New York in 1783, and he and Carleton became close associates...
22From John Adams to the Abbés Chalut and Arnoux, 8 July 1786 (Adams Papers)
Trumbull was traveling to Paris, where he would reside with Thomas Jefferson, to have his paintings “The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack of Quebec” and “The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill” engraved (
23To Benjamin Franklin from Jérôme-Marie Champion de Cicé, 27 December 1783 (Franklin Papers)
2° Si les pouvoirs des pretres Catholiques venoient directement de Rome, ou Si l’Ev. [Evêque] de quebec avoit quelque jurisdiction en amerique
24To George Washington from Lotbinière, 2 January 1789 (Washington Papers)
...to return to his estates, although, as John Jay observed, “his attachment to the american cause has rendered him so obnoxious to the british government as to render it unadviseable for him to return to the Province of Quebec” (
25Mary McCann to John Adams and Abigail Adams, 2 July 1785 (Adams Papers)
No. 1 Great Quebec St.
Party in the Province of Quebec, and in my Opinion Policy as well as Justice recommends
27[October 1784] (Washington Papers)
To QuebecThe Ottawa (Outauais) River flows for most of its length along the border between the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, entering the St. Lawrence River a few miles west of Montreal.
28To Benjamin Franklin from ——— Thruffé and Other Favor Seekers, 9 March 1784 (Franklin Papers)
...determined to take possession of it. Having carried the deed to London, she has learned that, according to the peace treaty, her lands now lie in the province “de Boston.” She hopes to avoid a voyage to Quebec, where the original deed was recorded, and needs Franklin’s advice on
...his name, joined the militia in Quebec in the fall of 1775, and in 1776 served as lieutenant colonel in the...
29To Thomas Jefferson from John Bondfield, 10 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...far distant”; many private American ships are in Europe; their seamen will be pressed into service “on one side or other”; few will be “found for the American Navigation.” Has been advised by an inhabitant of Quebec who arrived two days past that Gen. Carleton “keeps the Canadians to a strickt Militia Dicipline.”
30From George Washington to Robert Dick, 21 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
I am much obliged to you for the trouble you was so good as to take in forwarding to me the report of the Committee of Council at Quebec to Lord Dorchester.
31[Diary entry: 17 April 1785] (Washington Papers)
: Adam Lymburner (c.1745–1836), a Scottish merchant who had settled in Quebec in 1776. In 1791 he was appointed to the executive council of Lower Canada but never served. He was on a tour of the United States during the spring of 1785 (
32To John Jay from Arthur St. Clair, 13[–15] December 1788 (Jay Papers)
. Conolly, who came to that place, from Quebec, last Winter, has not long ago set out for Louisville at the rapids of the Ohio— he is the Conolly that made himself pretty remarkable during the progress of the Revolution, and was appointed a LieutJean François Hamtramck (1756–1803), was a French Canadian from Quebec who joined
33To George Washington from Frederick Haldimand, 4 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
Quebec 4th Decr 1783
34To George Washington from James Bowdoin, 14 May 1787 (Washington Papers)
...Bowdoin, will have the pleasure of delivering you this letter. He was formerly an officer in the british army; and has seen a great deal of service. He was particularly at the reduction of the Havannah, Louisburg, Quebec &c. &c, and distinguished himself in all those Campaigns: but quitted the service some years before the british ministry invaded their then colonies.
35[Diary entry: 13 May 1787] (Washington Papers)
: Maj. Francis Nichols (d. 1812), of Pottsgrove, Pa., participated in the seige of Quebec (1775) and retired from the Continental Army as a major in the 9th Pennsylvania Regiment. He was later appointed United States marshal for the eastern district of Pennsylvania (
36To Benjamin Franklin from John Walter, May 1784 (Franklin Papers)
Probably Robert Hunter (1742–1812), a prominent British merchant who by the latter half of the 1780s was a leading public representative of the committee of London merchants trading to Quebec. His son Robert Hunter, Jr. (1764–1843), may have accompanied him on this trip to France. On Nov. 4, 1785, when Robert Jr. was in Philadelphia, he recorded in his journal that he had...Quebec to Carolina...
37[Diary entry: 4 October 1784] (Washington Papers)
To QuebecThe Ottawa (Outauais) River flows for most of its length along the border between the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, entering the St. Lawrence River a few miles west of Montreal.
38From John Jay to Thomas Jefferson, 14 December 1786 (Jay Papers)
much Evidence of their having sent Emissaries to Quebec, and of Propositions made ...Chevalier de la Touche to Lafayette, 28 July 1786. It stated that when Sir Guy Carleton departed for Canada to serve as governor of the provinces of Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, Joseph Brant had instructions to “plague the Americans as much as possible”; that Brant left...
39To George Washington from James Hanna, 12 March 1784 (Washington Papers)
Quebec
40To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 9 August 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
Had I a month more to spare I would go to Boston, up the Kennebecke river, to Quebec and thence on. I will certainly see all that my time will admit of. It is possible I may lose my scalp from the temper of the Indians, but if either a little fighting or great deal of...
41To Benjamin Franklin from Pierre du Calvet, 14 September 1784 (Franklin Papers)
...annonce de toute part. La justice des loix va avoir Son cours: mais en angleterre les loix n’administrent la justice qu’au poids de l’or, ma fortune avoit été bien entamée par les violences de quebec; la connivance de londres, en multipliant mes dépenses, la encore bien affoiblie. Dans cette extremité, je n’ai d’autre recours, que dans le payement de la dette, dont les etats unis me Sont...
42To George Washington from Harry Innes, 18 December 1788 (Washington Papers)
...Territory, in a letter to Secretary for Foreign Affairs John Jay: “I have received Information from Detroit, which I depend upon, that a certain Coll Conolly, who came to that place, from Quebec, last Winter has, not long ago set out for Louisville at the rapids of the Ohio—he is the Conolly that made himself pretty remarkable during the progress of the Revolution, and was...
43To James Madison from James Monroe, 12 July 1785 (Madison Papers)
...or perhaps you have thoughts of a trip this way—packets sail every week eastwd. to R. Islan[d] & Boston—a stage is also establish’d to lake George & the communication over lake Champlain to Montreal and Quebec easy & expeditious. Agreeable company may be found either way.
That from the defensive State in which those Posts and Places are kept, as well as from the Number of Forces stationed in the Province of Quebec, the Intention of his britannic Majesty to evacuate them has become problematical.—
45To James Madison from James Monroe, 26 December 1785 (Madison Papers)
...Indians and British in raids on the Mohawk Valley. By a commission of 14 Mar. 1782 he became “Superintendent General and Inspector General of the Six Nations Indians and those in the Province of Quebec.” He exercised an important influence in Indian affairs and was active in relief measures on behalf of Loyalists. On 18 Nov. 1785 he made a speech to the Six Nations encouraging them to...
46To John Jay from John Adams, December 1785 (Jay Papers)
...—They think that if we should raise an Army & take those Posts, as we have a right to do, it would not oblige them to go to War with us—but if we should march an Army to Quebec and take it, and another to Nova-Scotia & take that, it would be no great Harm to them—if we should fit out Privateers against their Trade, they could easily send a Line of Frigates along our...
47New York Assembly. Remarks on an Act Acknowledging the Independence of Vermont, [28 March 1787] (Hamilton Papers)
...attempts to secure recognition of Vermont’s independence by the Continental Congress, Ethan and Ira Allen became interested in the possibility of a separate peace and an alliance with Great Britain. General Frederick Haldimand, governor of the province of Quebec, served as the British representative in subsequent negotiations.
48To George Washington from Henry Knox, 17 December 1786 (Washington Papers)
You are well acquainted with the subtelity of the characters of Sir Guy Carleton now Lord Dorchester, and Mr Wm Smith formerly of New York but now Chief Justice of Canada who have lately arrived at Quebec—At the conclusion of the war, the latter held it up as a maxim, that peace was the only medium of a reunion of America with great Britain—He still persists in that idea.
49To George Washington from Richard Platt, 21 September 1783 (Washington Papers)
...2nd May he was detach’d by Genl Wooster, (Genl Thomas not having yet taken the Command) in Consequence of Intelligence received of the Lading of some vessels up the St Lawrence with Provisions for the Enemy in Quebec; with orders to proceed up that River in a small boat as far as the Mouth of the Sorrell in search of all such Vessels, to seize & secure them, if any to be found, for the...
50From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, with Enclosure, 23 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...had sent three batteaus with wines, spirits, and other articles which were plundered and destroyed; and that in consequence of his friendly acts in behalf of the United States, he had been imprisoned for over two years in Quebec, his property had been sequestered, and his family turned out of doors (