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The Haldimand Collection is a valuable resource for the study of events in North America from the beginning of the Seven Years War to the end of the American Revolution and the early period of Loyalist settlement. The Papers contain the correspondence and records of Frederick Haldimand’s various commands at Trois-Rivières, Florida, New York, and Quebec. Included is correspondence with such military commanders as General Jeffery Amherst, Thomas Gage, Sir John Burgoyne, Henry Bouquet, and Sir Henry Clinton; various civil and military officials such as the Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty; Lord Barrington, Secretary at War; Lord Dartmouth and Lord George Germain, Secretaries of State; the Governors of Quebec, James Murray and Sir Guy Carleton; British ministers, including the Earl of Shelburne and Lord North; officers of Loyalist Corps such as Robert Rogers, James Rogers, Sir John Johnson, John Butler, and many others; Indian Department officials, Sir William Johnson, Guy Johnson and Daniel Claus; several governors and lieutenant governors; and many letters by Robert Matthews, Haldimand’s military secretary.
1752 – L. R. L. St-Pierre (in French)
Journal of an exploring expedition for the discovery of the Western Seas, with details of the transactions with the Indians ; his escapes and hardships from 1750. (Page 1) – SN: 026001
1758/04/19 – H. M. S. Winchester
Log of H. M. S. Winchester with convoy from Charleston, S. C. To New York, from 26th March to date. (Page 19) – SN: 026002
1762
Militia raised in the Province of Jucatan (Mexico), with names of places where raised. (Page 87) – SN: 026003
1766/05/04 – Pensacola – Alexander Fraser
Report of an explanatory survey on the Ohio and Illinois, giving the character of the inhabitants, the capacities of the soil, &c., the state of trade and the relations of the French and Spaniards. (Page 24) – SN: 026004
1766/07/13 – No name.
Memorandum of a small journey by land to the South West of Pensacola. (Page 36) – SN: 026005
1768/11/15 – Fort Charteris – Thomas Hutchins
Enclosing short journal of a trip on the Ohio in the vincinity of Fort Pitt. Will take possession of Fort St. Vincennes, on the Wabash. The journal contains descriptions of the scenery, soil, views, &c. (Page 37) – SN: 026006
1771/11/05 to 1771/12/31– Sergeant Wright
Journal of his passage from Pensacola to the Upper Creek Indian Nation and back. (Page 43) – SN: 026007
1773/01/01 – Charles Stuart
List of Indian tribes inhabiting the banks of the Mississippi between New Orleans and Red River, with number of gun men and places of residence. (Page 52) – SN: 026008
1773/09/13 to 1773/09/30 – Hugh Finlay
Journal of survey for the purpose of running a road from Quebec to Falmouth in Casco Bay (Page 54) His attempts to obtain the assent of the Massachusetts Assembly to open the road; the designs of the Plymouth Company. (Page 75) – SN: 026009
No date or name
Report of the country to the back of Pensacola in West Florida. (Page 78) – SN: 026010
No date – Harry Gordon
- Notes on the country along the Mississippi from Caskaskias to New Orleans. (Page 82) – SN: 026011
No name nor date.
Notes on Campeachy and neighbourhood. (Page 85) – SN: 026012
No date
- Colonel Maxwell. Remarks on the Mississippi and Iberville. (Page 89)
- List of Towns.
- Instructions given by the Rebel Congress to the masters of privateers cruising on the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Distances, sailing, directions, &c., are given. (Page 95)
- The distance from Trois Pistoles to Restigouche, detailed itinerary. (Page 99)
- Maps and Plans. Sketch of the country round Ticonderoga. (Page 23a)
- Lake Ontario, Coast Line on both sides, 31st July 1760. (Page 23b)
- Sketch of the Wabash from Port Vincennes to the Ohio. (Page 23c)
- Plan of battle, apparently plan of the different forces engaged at the taking of Quebec, 1759. ((Page 103a)
- See also. (Page 103j)
- Map of Massachusetts. (Page 103b)
- Map of the neighbourhood of Sandusky. ((Page 103c)
- Rough plan of road from NewCastle to Chestertown (Penn. ?) (Page 103c)
- Plan of a fort (unnamed) (Page 103d)
- Rough plan Niagara, &c. (Pages 103f to 103h)
- Plan of battle (unnamed) Revolutionary War. (Page 103i)
– SN: 026010