Archive Reference (shelfmark): Kings MS 1-446 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 208-209
Title:: 'A GENERAL DESCRIPTION of the Province of Nova Scotia, and a Report of the present state of the Defences ...by Lieut.-Col. [Robert] Morse, Chief Engineer in America', drawn up by direction of Gen. Sir Guy Carleton, Commander-in-Chief of H.M. Forces in N. America; 1783-1784. Two volumes. Vol. ii contains the coloured plans referred to in vol. i, preceded (f. 1) by the Admiralty Chart of 'the Coast of Nova Scotia, New England, the Gulph and River of St. Lawrence, the Islands of Newfoundland, C...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1783-1784
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 210
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. I, ff. 102, 1773. A detailed geographical description of South Carolina, Georgia, and East Florida, authored by William Gerard DeBrahm from personal observations.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1773
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 210-211
Title:: 'REPORT of the General Survey in the Southern District of North America: delivered to the Board of Trade and Plantations in three seperate returns and sections, entering with the history of South Carolina and Georgia, then proceeding to the history of East Florida', &c. ; by William Gerard de Brahm, appointed Surveyor-General of the District 26 June, 1764. The report is compiled (see vol. 1, f. 2 b) from his surveys and observations made 1751-1771, and is accompanied by numerous maps and...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1773-1774?
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 212
Title:
Scope & Content:: JOURNAL of Lieut. Robert Orme, giving a history of the expedition under Maj.-Gen, Edward Braddock against the French at Fort Du Quesne, in Pennsylvania, in 1755, from the General's arrival at Hampton, in Virginia, 20 Feb., to his defeat on the R. Monongahela 9 July, and his death from wounds, 13...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 213
Title:: JOURNAL of an officer [of the 66th Regiment] who travelled over a part of the West Indies and of North America in the course of 1764 and 1765.
Scope & Content:: Journal believed to be by Lord Adam Gordon, but not in his hand. The author briefly describes the people, manners, products, government, defences, &c., of the principal places which he visited on his route, which was to Madeira, Antigua, St. Christopher, Jamaica, northward through Yucatan Ch...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 214
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'A MEMOIR relative to the Island of Jamaica, shewing the nature and strength of the country, the situation of the retreats and military posts, together with the dispositions and general plan of defence established in 1782; by Major General Archibald Campbell, Governor and Commander in Chief' [K....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1782
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 215
Title:
Scope & Content:: THREE TREATISES, in Spanish, relating to Mexico (see Gayangos, Cat. of MSS. in the Spanish Language in the Brit. Museum, 1875-1893, ii, p. 430), as follows:- 1. ' Relazion sumaria y puntual del tumulto y sedizion que hubo en M[exico] los 15 de Henero de 1624 y de las cosas mas notables que le p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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