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American Collections

• American Antiquarian Society. Curwen Papers.
• Boston Athenaeum, Library of Boston, Customs House Clearances, 1744-1748 [?]
• Brown Library, John Carter. Various Eighteenth Century Pamphlets.
• Clements Library, W.L. George Clinton Papers; Louisbourg, Siege, 1745, [?]
• Harvard University School of Business Administration, Baker Library, Thomas Hancock Papers.
• Massachusetts Historical Society, Belknap Papers, Davis Papers, Pepperell Papers.

British Collections:

• Buckinghamshire Record Office. Duke of Buckingham Papers.
• Mapperton House, Beaminster. Papers of the Fourth Earl of Sandwich.
• Nottingham, The University, Newcastle Mss.
• Public Record Office. Admiralty 1, Secretary's Department, In-Letters.

• Admiralty 2, Secretary's Department, Out-Letters.
• Admiralty 3, Secretary's Department, Minutes of  the Commission for Lord High Admiral
• Admiralty 5, Secretary's Department, Vice-Admiralty and Subordinate Offices.
• Admiralty 8, Registers, List Books showing the disposition of ships, 41 names of officers, etc., 1673-1885.
• Admiralty 50, Log Books, etc., Admiralty Journals.
• Admiralty 51, Log Books, etc., Captains' Logs.
• Colonial Office 5, America and West Indies, Correspondence, original, etc.
• Colonial Office 42, Canada, Correspondence, original.
• Colonial Office 324, Colonies, General, Entry Books of Commissions, Instructions, etc.
• Exchequer and Audit Department, Accounts, Declared.
• Privy Council 2, Registers, 1540-1957.
• State Papers 41, Domestic-Military, 1637-1885. 
• State Papers 42, Domestic Naval. 
• State Papers 44, Entry Books. 
• Treasury Office 1, In-Letters, Treasury Board Papers, 1557-1920. 
• War Office 4, Out-Letters, Secretary at War. 
• War Office 10, Registers, etc., Muster Books and Pay Lists, Artillery.
• War Office 25, Registers, etc., Various, 1660-1938.

Scottish Record Office. North Berwick Muniments.

• Cunninghame of Thornton Muniments, Garrison Orders of Louisbourg.

Sussex Archaeological Society. 

• Peter Warren Papers.

Canadian Collections:

• Public Archives of Canada. Nova Scotia A, Transcripts of Colonial Office Documents, various volumes.

French Collections:

• Archives des Colonies. Série B., Lettres Envoyées, 1663-1789.

• Série C11B., Correspondance Généra1e, Ile Royale,, 1712-1763.
• Série C11C, Amérique du Nord.
• Série F3, Collection Moreau St. Méry, 1632-1806.

• Archives de la France d'Outre-mer. Série G1, Registres de l'état civil, recensements et divers documents, 1721-1784.

• Dépôt des Fortifications des Colonies, Amérique Septentrionale.

• Archives de la Marine. Série A1, Ordonnances, Edits, Arrêts.

PUBLISHED DOCUMENTARY SOURCES

• Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. First Series, I. Boston: Published for the Society, 1792.
• Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Sixth Series, X. Boston: Published for the Society, 1899.
• Correspondence of William Shirley. Two volumes. Charles Henry Lincoln, editor. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912.
• Documents and Records Relating to the Province of New Hampshire Provincial Papers from 1738-1749. Volume V. Nathaniel Bouton, editor. Nashua; Orren C. Moore, 1871.
• Documents Relating to Canadian Currency Exchange and Finance during the French Period. Two volumes. Adam Shortt, editor. Ottawa: King's Printer, 1925.
• English Historical Documents, American Colonial Documents to 1776. Volume IX. Merrill Jensen, editor. David C. Douglas, general editor. London; Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1964.
• English Historical Documents, 1714-1783. Volume X. D.B. Horn and Mary Ransome, editors. David C. Douglas, general editor. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957.
• The Law Papers, Correspondence and Documents during Jonathan Law's Governorship of the Colony of Connecticut, 1741-1750. Three volumes. Albert C. Bates, editor. Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1907, 1911, 1914.
• Les derniers jours de L'Acadie, 1748-1758, Correspondances et Mémoires. Gaston du Boscq De Beaumont, éditeur. Paris: Emile Lechevalier, 1899.
• Report concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905. Three volumes. Ottawa: King's Printer 1906.
• Roll of New Hampshire Men at Louisbourg, Cape Breton, 1745. No author or editor given. Concord: E.N. Pearson, Public Printer, 1896.
• Select Documents in Canadian Economic History, 1497-1783. H.A. Innis, editor, Toronto: University Press, 1929.
• Select Documents in Canadian Economic History, 1783-1885. H.A. Innis  editors and A.R.M. Lower, Toronto: University Press, 1933.
• The Walker Expedition to Quebec, 1711. Gerald Graham, editor. Toronto:Champlain Society, 1954.

CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS AND DESCRIPTIONS: BOOKS

• The Great Importance of Cape Breton Demonstrated and Exemplified by Extracts from the best Writers, French and English, who have treated of the Colony. Anonymous. John Carter Brown Library. London: John Brindley, 1746.
• A Journal of the Voige in the Sloop Union. Howard M. Chapin, editor. Providence: Paul C. Nicholson, 1929.
• Louisbourg in 1745 (Lettre d'un Habitant de Louisbourg). Anonymous. George M. Wrong, editor and translator. Toronto: Warwick Bro's & Rutter, 1897.
• Pichon, Thomas. Lettres et memoires Pour servir a l'Histoire naturelle, Civile et Politique de Cap Breton depuis Son établissement jusqu'a la rcprise de cette isle par les Anglois en 1758. La Haye: Pierre Gosse, 1760.
• Prince, Thomas. Extraordinary Events the Doings of God, and marvellous in pious Eyes Illustrated in a Sermon... Occasion'd by Taking the City of Louisbourg on the Isle of Cape Breton, by New-England Soldiers, assisted by a British Squadron. London. John Lewis, 1746.
• D'Ulloa, Don Antonio. Voyage au Pérou. Two volumes. Paris: Jambert, 1752.

CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS AND DESCRIPTIONS: PAMPHLETS AND COLLECTIONS

• An Accurate Journal and Account of the Proceedings of the New-England Land-Forces, During the late Expedition... To the Time of the Surrender of Louisbourg. Attested to by William Pepperrell, Samuel Waldo, Samuel Moore, Simon Lothrop and Richard Gridley. London: A. and S. Brice, 1746.
• "Expedition to Cape Breton: Journal of the Rev. Adonijah Bidwell, Chaplainof the Fleet" New England Historical and Genealogical Register, XXVII, (April, 1873) pp. 153-159.
• "Dudley Bradstreet's Diary, Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, Second Series, X1, (June, 1897) pp. 423-446.
• "Benjamin Cleaves's Journal of the Expedition to Louisbourg,, 1745", New England Historical and Genealogical Register, LXVI, (April, 1912,), pp. 113-124.
• "Craft's journal of  the Siege of Louisbourg", Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, VI, no. 5, (October, 1864) pp. 161-194.
• Journal and Letters of the late Samuel Curwen. George Atkinson Ward, editor. London: Wiley and Putnam, 1842.
• Emerson, Rev. Joseph. "Journal of the Louisbourg Expedition", Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings. XLIV, (October, 1910-June, 1911) pp. 72-84.
• A Boston Merchant of 1745; or, Incidents in the life of James Gibson. By "one of his descendants". Boston: Redding and Company, 1847.
• "Journal kept by Lieut. Daniel Giddings of Ipswich during the Expedition against Cape Breton in 1744-5", Historical Collections of the Essex Institute. XLVIII, no. 4, (October, 1912) pp. 293-304.
• Benjamin Green's Journal. This journal was incorrectly published as "The Sir William Pepperrell Journal", American Antiquarian Society Proceedings. XX (October, 1909) pp. 136-176. The bibliography in de Forest, Louisbourg Journals, p. 235, noted that the journal was most probably kept by Benjamin Green.
• Louisbourg Journals 1745. Louis Effingham de Forestt editor. New York: Vail-Ballou Press, 1932.
• The Journals and Papers of Seth Pomeroy. Louis Effingham de Forest, editor. Connecticut: Tuttle, Moorehouse & Taylor, 1926.
• The journal of Captain William Pote Jr.. Victor H. Paltsits, editor. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1896.
• A Letter from William Shirley, Esq; Governor of Massachusetts's To his Grace the Duke of Newcastle: with a Journal of the Siege of Louisbourg. London: E. Owen, 1746.
• "Benjamin Stearn's Diary". Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings. Third Series, II, (Boston, 1909), pp. 134-144. This diary is attributed to Stearn because the handwriting resembles other documents known to have been written by Stearn.
• "Journal of Roger Wolcott at the Siege of Louisbourg, 1745", Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society. I, (Hartford, 1860), pp. 131-161.

CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPERS

The Louisbourg Restoration Project, National Historic Sites Service, Parks Branch, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, holds selected transcripts and extracts of the following newspapers, apparently collected from the Boston Public Library and the Massachusetts Historical Society.

• The Boston Evening-Post.
• Boston Gazette.
• The Boston Weekly News-Letter. 
• The Boston Weekly Post Boy.
• The Independent Advertiser.

SECONDARY SOURCES

• Akins, Thomas B. "History of Halifax City", Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society. VIII. Halifax: Morning Herald Printing and publishing Company, 1895.
• Andrews, C. M. The Colonial Period of American History. Four volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966.
• Baugh, Daniel A. British Naval Administration in the Age of Walpole. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1965.
• Baxter. W.T. The House of Hancock. New York: Russell & Russell, 1965.
• Belknap, Jeremy. The History of New Hampshire. Two volumes. Boston: Bradford and Read, 1813.
• Boorstin, Daniel. The Americans: the colonial experience. New York: Random House, 1966.
• Brebner, John Bartlet. New England's Outpost. New York: Columbia University Press, 1927.
• Brebner, John Bartlet. North Atlantic Triangle. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1966.
• Brown, Richard. A History of the Island of Cape Breton. London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1869.
• Burrage, Henry S. Maine at Louisbourg in 1745. Augusta: Burleigh & Flynt, 1910.
• The Cambridge History of the British Empire. VI. J. Holland Rose, A.P. Newton,, E.A. Benians,, general editors. Cambridge: University Press, 1930.
• The Cambridge Modern History: the eighteenth century. VI. A.E. Ward and G.W. Prothero, editors. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909.
• Chapin, H. M. New England Vessels in the Expedition against Louisbourg, 1745. Boston: reprinted from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register for January and April, 1923.
• Clark, Andrew H. Acadia, the Geography of Early Nova Scotia to 1760. Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968.
• Claver, Scott. Under the Lash. London: Burlington Press, 1954.
• Cobban, "The Decline of Divine-Right Monarchy in France", in The New Cambridge Modern History. VII,, q.v.
• Dictionary of  American Biography. Allen Johnson, editor. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
• The Dictionary of National Biography. Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, editors. Oxford: University Press, 1949-1950.
• Dorn, Walter L. Competition for Empire, 1740-1763. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1950.
• Douglass, William. A Summary, Historical and Political, of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements and Present State of  British Settlements in North America. Two volumes. London: Baldwin, 1755.
• Downey, Fairfax. Louisbourg: Key to a Continent. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1965.
• Duane, William. A Military Dictionary. Philadelphia: William Duane, 1810.
• Eccles, W. J. The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
• Fairchild, Byron. Messrs. William Pepperrell, Merchants at Piscataqua. New York: Cornell University Press, 1954.
• Feiling, Keith. A History of  England. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1950.
• Filion, Maurice. Maurepas, Ministre de Louis XV. Montréal: Les Editions Leméac, 1967.
• Fiske, John. New England and New France. New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902.
• Fortescue, J.W. A History of the British Army. II. London. Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1910.
• Frégault, Guy. Canada: the war of the Conquest. Margaret Cameron, translator. Toronto; Oxford University Press, 1969.
• Frégault, Guy. Canadian Society in the French Regime. W.M. Conacher, translator. Ottawa: Canadian Historical Association Booklet no. 3, 1964.
• Graham, Gerald. Empire of the North Atlantic. Toronto: University Press, 1950.
• Harvey, D.C. The French Regime in Prince Edward Island. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926.
• Hotblack, Kate. Chatham's Colonial Policy New York; E.P. Dutton & Co., 1917.
• Hutchinson, Thoms. The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay. Two volumes. L.W. Mayo, editor. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963.
• Innis, Harold A. The Cod Fisheries. Toronto: University Press, 1954.
• James, Major Charles. A New and Enlarged Military Dictionary. London: T. Egerton, 1810.
• Jobez, M. Alphonse. La France sous Louis XV. III. Paris; Didier et Cie., 1866.
• Kennett, Lee. The French Armies in the Seven Years' War. North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1967.
• Lacour-Gayet, G. La Marine militaie de la France sous le règne de Louis XV. Paris; Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, 1910.
• Lanctot, Gustave. A History of Canada. Three volumes. Margaret M. Cameron, translator. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1965.
• Landmann, Isaac. The Principles of Fortification. London: T. Egerton, 1831
• Lodge, Richard. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Diplomacy, 1740-1748. London: John Murray, 1930.
• McLennan, J.S. Louisbourg, From its Foundation to its Fall, 1713-1758. London: Macmillan and Co., 1918.
• MacNutt, W.S. The Atlantic Provinces: the emergence of colonial society, 1712-1857. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1965..
• Mahan, Captain A.T. The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1889.
• Michael, Wolfgang. "Great Britain", in The Cambridge Modern History: the eighteenth century. VI, q.v.
• Miller, J. C. Origins of  the American Revolution. Boston. Little, Brown and Company, 1943.
• La Morandière, Charles de. Histoire do la Pêche Francaise de la Morue dans l'Amérique Septentrionale. II. Paris; G.-P. Maisonneuve et rose, 1962.
• Murdoch, Beamish. A History of Nova Scotia or Acadie. Three volumes. Halifax; James Barnes, Printer and Publisher, 1865-67.
• The New Cambridge Modern History: the old regime. VII. J.O. Lindsay, editor. Cambridge: University Press, 1963.
• Newton,, A.P. "Newfoundland to 1783", in The Cambridge History of the British Empire. VI, q.v.
• Pares, Richard. War and Trade in the West Indies, 1739-1763. London; Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1963.
• Parkman, Francis. A Half-Century of Conflict. New York: Collier Books, 1962.
• The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the year 1803. XIII, XIV. London: printed by T.C. Hansard, 1812.
• Parsons, Usher. The Life of Sir William Pepperrell, Bart. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1856.
• Plumb, J.H. Chatham. London: Collins, 1965.
• Rawlyk, George A. Yankees at Louisbourg. Maine: University of Maine Press, 1967.
• Richmond, Herbert W. The Navy in the War of 1739-48. Three volumes. Cambridge: University Press, 1920. 
• Robson. "The Armed Forces and the Art of  War", in The New Cambridge Modern History. VII, q.v.
• The New Method of Fortification, As practised by Monsieur de Vauban, in Engineer-General of France. Signed "A.S." London: S. and S. Ballard, 1748.
• Schutz, John A. William Shirley. North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1961.
• Shy, Jonn. Toward Lexington: the role of the British army in coming of the American Revolution. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1965.
• Smith, Captain George. An Universal Military Dictionary, London: J. Millan, 1779.
• Stanley, G.F.G. New France: the last phase, 1744-1760. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1968.
• Thomson, J. M. Lectures on Foreign History, 1495-1789. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1962.
• Thomson, Mark A. "The War of the Austrian Succession", in The New Cambridge Modern History. VII, q.v.
• de Vauban, Sebastien LePrestre. A Manual of Siegecraft and Fortification. George A. Rothrock, translator and editor. Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press 1968.
• Weedon, William B. Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789. Two volumes. New York: Hillary House Publishers Ltd., 1963.
• Williamson, James A. A Short History of British Expansion: the old colonial empire. I. Toronto: Macmillan, 1965.
• Wilson, Arthur M. French Foreign Policy during the Administration of Cardinal Fleury, 1726-1743. Gairibridge: Harvard University Press, 1936.
• Wood, George A. William Shirley. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1920.

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, ARTICLES

• Buffinton, Arthur H. "The Canada Expedition of 1746, its Relation to British Politics", The American Historical Review, XLV, no. 3, (April, 1940), pp. 552-580.
• David, A. S. Sp. "Messire Pierre Maillard, Apôtre ces Micmacs" Bulletin des Recherches Historiques. XXXV, no. 6,(Juin, 1929), pp. 365-375.
• Frégault, Guy. "L'Expédition du duc d'Anville", Revue d'Histoire de L'Amerique française, II, no. 1, (Juin, 1948), pp. 27-52.
• Innis, Harold A. "Cape Breton and the French Régime", Royal Society of Canada Transactions, section 2, (1935), pp. 51-87.
• Rogers, Norman McL. "The Abbé Le Loutrell," Canadian Historical Review, XI, no. 2, (June, 1930), pp. 105-128.
• Sosin, J. M. "Louisbourg and the Piece of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748", The William and Mary Quarterly, XIV, series 3, (October, 1957), pp. 516-535.
• Watkins, Melville H. "A Staple Theory of Economic Growth". The Canadian Journal Economics and Political Science, XXIX,, no. 2,, (May, 1963), pp. 141-158.

THESES AND UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS

• Baker, Raymond F. The Siege of  Louisbourg. Louisbourg Restoration Project, unpublished manuscript, 1966.
• Foote, William A. The American Units of the British Regular Army, 1664-1772. Texas Western College: unpublished Master's thesis, 1959.
• Giasson, Gérard. La Forteresse de Louisbourg. University of Montréal, unpublished master's thesis, 1966.
• Le Goff, Artillery at Louisbourg. Louisbourg Restoration Project, unpublished manuscript, 1967.
• Gwyn, Julian. Admiral Sir Peter Warren, 1703-1753, his Life and Fortune. Unpublished manuscript, 1969.
• Humphreys, John. Royal Battery Report #2. Louisbourg Restoration Project, unpublished manuscript,, 1964.
• The Service of British Regiments in Canada and North America. Compiled by Charles A. Stewart. Ottawa: Department of National Defence Library, unpublished manuscript, 1962.
• Way, Ronald L. Report on the Defensive Works of the King's Bastion, Fortress of Louisbourg. Louisbourg Restoration Project, unpublished manuscript, 1962.

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