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Events from the year 1730 in Canada.
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Jesuit's long report on Saguenay region, it's geography and Mistassini Cree, and Innu (Montagnais) near Tadoussac (Note: "savages" used) [4]
New York governor seeks way to subsidize Oswego garrison and trade (key to Six Nations support) with tax acceptable to Assembly and Crown [5]
"That they might live and settle among them" - French and Meskwaki (Fox) in Seneca territory concern New York Indian commissioners [6]
N.Y. legislators on backfired past attempt to squeeze French out of Indigenous trade, and effect of current trouble from Oswego traders [7]
French send "a thousand sail of ships annually" to fish off Newfoundland and had 220,000 quintals of cod for Marseille market in 1730 [8]
Legal advice that Newfoundland justices' powers don't include judging property cases, and taxation must have consent of some popular assembly [9]
"Hundreds of these poor creatures are beging [sic] up and down" - Servants' wages are withheld at end of fishing season, leaving them destitute [10]
Fishing admirals hold themselves superior to justices of the peace and Governor Osborn, whose authority is "only from the Privy Council" [11]
"So avers to all Government" - Fishing captains and traders won't support civil authority, even at tax rate of "one farthing in the pound" [12]
Newfoundlanders ask protection from price gouging by "masters of shipps," and that their flax and hemp "be sent home freight free" [13]
History of 1720s fighting between Saint George River settlers and "French Indians" to keep former's land out of "the hands of the Indians" [14]
Surveyor of His Majesty's Woods told to, "by the most gentle usage," deter Penobscot from hindering settlement beyond Saint George River [15]
In face of aggressiveness from Massachusetts, David Dunbar reaches out to Penobscot and their Canada-educated, mixed-race comrade [16]
Gov. Belcher objects to Dunbar's settlements between Sagadahoc (Kennebec) River and Gulf of St. Lawrence, which Massachusetts claims [17]
Nova Scotia governor offers Dunbar his limited advice on Penobscot (Note: "animals" and "savages" used) [18]
Dunbar relates complaints of Minas region merchants required to discount wares they supply to Annapolis Royal garrison [19]
Sure that his own settlements will take years to actualize, Gov. Philipps envies way new "Province of Maine" governor attracts settlers [20]
David Dunbar criticized for settlement names like "Province of Georgia" (it's Nova Scotia land) and "Fredericksburg" (which isn't English) [21]
Fidelity oath (in French) signed by Annapolis Acadians, plus their address welcoming governor's written assurance of religious rights [22]
1755 Acadian petition includes 1730 fidelity oath (in English) and testimony that Gov. Philipps promised them neutrality at that time [23]
With brief French lesson, Trade Board says oath given to Annapolis Acadians doesn't actually require their fidelity to His Majesty [24]
"Good management, plain reasoning and presents" - Philipps reports that Indigenous and French have submitted to British governance [25]
Oath of allegiance signed by 591 of "the French inhabitants of Nova Scotia" [26]
Philipps again appeals for adequate defence of Canso, pointing out its £30-40,000 value in duties and its 6–7 hours march from French forces [27]
Philipps told issuing settler-requested £2,000 in paper money impossible "till you shall have an Assembly," and then with "very great caution" [28]
David Dunbar worried about working in Nova Scotia, where people are afraid to travel and "are even insulted in their garrisons" [29]
Philipps to assist in settling Irish and Palatines in defensible townships between Penobscot and St. Croix rivers (Note: "savage" used) [30]
Fine and prison sentence set for "wild fellows who catch the horses in the fields and race them to the great detriment of the beasts" [31]
Hudson's Bay Company employee reports on wild rice, good grass for hay, and thriving fruit trees (!) in Moose River country [32]
Governors instructed not to seize whale products or discourage that fishery but "to encourage the same to the utmost of their power" [33]
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