Privateer ships and sailors : the first century of American colonial privateering, 1625-1725 Toulon : Mouton, 1926. 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35 C36
Privateers and privateering
United States — History, Naval
United States — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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An introduction to the history of the revolt of the American colonies : a comprehensive view of its origin derived from the State papers contained in the public offices of Great Britain / by George Chalmers. Boston, Mass. : Ames Munro and Co., 1845. 2 v. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35 C3
United States — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
United States — Politics and government — To 1775.
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The quit-rent system in the American colonies / Beverley W. Bond, jr. with a introduction by Charles M. Andrews. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1919. 492 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35 B64
Rent
Land tenure — United States — History.
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Narrative and critical history of America / edited by Justin Winsor. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1884-1889. 8 v. : illustrations, portraits, maps, facsims. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F30 W73
Most of the articles are followed by a critical essay on the sources of information, and notes in addition to the foot-notes.
Cartography — America
America — History
America — Bibliography
America — Maps, Early
America — Description and travel
America — Antiquities
United States — History
United States — History — Biblio
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A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies / by the Abbé Raynal ; newly translated from the French by J.O. Justamond. 2nd ed. London : A. Strahan, 1798. 6 v. : front. ( port.) 7 fold. maps ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F30 R21
Justamond, J. O. (John Obadiah), d. 1786.
Colonization — History
Commerce — History
East Indies
America — Discovery and exploration.
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A philosophical and political history of the British settlements and trade in North America / from the French of Abbé Raynal. Edinburgh : Printed by C. MacFarquhar, 1776. 2 v. ; 16 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F30 R21
Pages 48-103 of Volume 1 and pages 9-135 of Volume 2 related to the description and history of the colonies in Canada.
United States — Description and travel
United States — Economic conditions
United States — History — Colonial period, ca.1600-1775
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Canada — Description and travel — To
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Waldoborough 1773-1973 : 200 anniversary : a pictorial history 1st ed. Waldoboro, Me. : Waldoboro Bi-Centennial Committee, 1973. 96 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F29 W16
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Anthropological papers Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1955. 415 pages, 48 pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F29 Sm6b
At head of title: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Includes index.
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
First Nations of North America
Ethnology — North America.
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Memorial of the centennial anniversary of the settlement of Machias Machias, Me. : Printed by C.O. Furbish, 1863. 179, [1] pages 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F29 M149
Machias genealogies: pages 151-179.
Machias (Me.) — History
Machias (Me.) — Genealogy.
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Hodgdon, Maine, 1832-1982, sesquicentennial album / by Geraldine Tidd Scott ; including photographs and stories by Harry Williams ; genealogical information on Hodgdon families, 1830-1900. 1st ed. North Windham, Me. (P.O. Box 1464, North Windham 04062) : Pioneer Heritage Publications, 1982. iv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F29 H688
Includes index.
Hodgdon (Me.) — Social life and customs
Hodgdon (Me.) — Genealogy.
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Coastal front : a history of Fort Sullivan Eastport Maine / David Zimmerman. Eastport, Me. : Border Historical Society, 1984. 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F29 F736 Z72
Fortification — History
Fort Sullivan (Eastport, Me.) — History
Eastport, Me. — History.
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History of Dresden, Maine : formerly a part of the old town of Pownalborough : from its earliest settlement to the year 1900 / by Charles Edwin Allen. Augusta, Me. : Kennebec Journal Print. Shop, 1931. 894 pages, [2] folded pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F29 D81 A15
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Travels in North America London : Printed for C.J.G. & F. Rivington, 1831. 168 pages, [3] pages of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 T69
Purporting to narrate the experiences of one George Philips, to whom the work is sometimes attributed (Halkett & Laing VI 81, this account is a narrative of his travels from Ireland to the West Indies, and thence to the United States to cross the continent with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He returned east through Canada to Newfoundland, and then via Quebec and Lake Champlain to New York. Cf. TPL.
West Indies — Description and travel
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
United States — Description and travel — 1783-1848.
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Five years' residence in the Canadas : including a tour through part of the United States of America, in the year 1823 / by Edward Allen Talbot. London : Longman etc., 1824. 2 v. : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 T14
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867.
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History, geography, and statistics of British North America / by Alex. Monro. Montreal : J. Lovell, 1864. iv, 324 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 M75
Errata: pages [ii].
Canada — History
Canada — Economic conditions — 1763-1867.
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Tour through part of the north provinces of America : being a series of letters wrote on the spot, in the years 1774, & 1775 / by Patrick M'Robert. Philadelphia : Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1935. x, 47 pages ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 M24
Reprint. Originally published: Edinburgh : Printed for the author, 1776. Offprint from the Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, April, 1935--T.pages verso. Includes index.
North America — Description and travel
Nova Scotia — Description and travel.
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Mackenzie and his voyageurs : by canoe to the Arctic and the Pacific, 1789-93 / by Arthur P. Woollacott. London ; Toronto : J.M. Dent, 1927. x, 237 pages : illustrations (map) plates. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 M19 W88
In the preparation of this essay, Mackenzie's narrative, as contained in the original edition of his Voyages, 1801, was used as a basis.--pages v.
First Nations of North America — Canada
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — To 1821.
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Cinq mois chez les Français d'Amerique : voyage au Canada et à la rivière Rouge du Nord / par H. de Lamothe. 2nd ed. Paris : Hachette et cie, 1880. 2 pages l., iv, 373 pages : front., plates, portraits, 4 ma
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 L16
Canada — Description and travel — 1867-1950
Red River of the North
Canada — Description and travel — 1868-1900.
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Letters from North America, written during a tour in the United States and Canada / by Adam Hodgson. London : Printed for Hurst, Robinson, & Co. and A. Constable & Co., Edinburgh, 1824. 2 v. (xv, 405; iv, 459 pages) : illustrations, folded map, pla
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 H66
Errata slip tipped in to both vols. Error in paging: pages 331 misnumbered 831. Some copies of v. 2 also have a Postscript (pages [461]-473 dated Washington, 10th March, 1824. After many copies of the preceding work were sent off, I received an American newspaper, which contained the following documents ... I have thought it desirable to insert them in those copies which were still within my reach--pages [463]
United States — Description and travel — 1783-1848
United States — Social life and customs — 1783-1865
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867.
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Travels through the Canadas : containing a description of the picturesque scenery on some of the rivers and lakes, with an account of the productions, commerce, and inhabitants of those provinces : to which is subjoined a comparative view of the manners a / by George Heriot ; illustrated with a map and numerous engravings, from drawings made at the several places by the author. London : Printed for R. Phillips, 1807. xii, 602, [2] pages, [29] pages of plates (7 folded)
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 H42 T69
First chapter contains description of the Azores. Part second contains a minute description of the peculiarities of various nations of American aborigines, principally derived from other printed works.--Sabin. Vocabulary of the Algonquin tongue: pages 579-599; Indicative mood of the verb sakia, to love: pages 599-600; Numeration: pages 601-602. Errata: pages xii. Directions for placing the plates: pages [603] Publisher's advertisement: pages [604]
First Nations of North America
Algonquian languages — Dictionaries — English
English language — Dictionaries — Algonquian
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
Azores.
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Travels through the Canadas / by George Heriot. London- : 18--. 232 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 H42 T69
Missing title page.
First Nations of North America
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
Azores.
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A pocket gazetteer : or Traveller's guide through North America and the West Indies : containing a description of all the states, territories, counties, cities, towns, villages, seas, bays, harbors, islands, capes, railroads, canals, &c., connected with N / by Bishop Davenport. Trenton, N.J. : Plaskitt & Co, 1833. 468 pages : front (fold. map) illus., fold. pl. ; 15
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 D27
Library's copy has torn t.p.
United States — Gazetteers
North America — Gazetteers
West Indies — Gazetteers.
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A topographical description of the province of Lower Canada : with remarks upon Upper Canada, and on the relative connexion of both provinces with the United States of America / by Joseph Bouchette. London : Printed for the author, and published by W. Faden, 1815. xv, 640, lxxxvi, [2] pages, [18] pages of plates (5
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 B66
Issued also in French under title: Description topographique de la province du Bas Canada. Includes some text in French. Extrait des titres de concessions de terres octroyées en fiefs dans la province du Bas-Canada: pages [i]-lii (4th group Errata: pages [2] (last group Library's copy has no t.p.
Land grants — Quebec (Province)
Quebec (Province) — Description and travel — 1764-1850
Ontario — Description and travel — 1764-1850.
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L'Acadie, or, Seven years' explorations in British America / by Sir James E. Alexander. London : H. Colburn, 1849. 2 v. : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 AL2
Canada — Description and travel.
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History of Old Broad Bay and Waldoboro Portland, Me., Bond Wheelwright Co., 1965. 2 v. illustrations 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F27 L7 S881
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