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Privateering in King George's War, 1739-1748 / by Howard M. Chapin. Providence : Johnson, 1928. 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35 C36p
Privateers and privateering
United States — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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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 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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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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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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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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North America New York : Harper, 1862. vii, 623 pages ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5 T74
United States — Description and travel
United States — Politics and government — 1861-1865
Canada — Description and travel.
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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
Calendar of the papers of Martin Van Buren : prepared from the original manuscripts in the Library of Congress / by Elizabeth Howard West. Washington, D.C. : Government printing office, 1910. 757 pages illustrations ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E827 V26
Manuscripts — United States — Catalogs
United States — Bibliography.
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The days of Roosevelt New York- : 1948. 49 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E807 M22
United States — Politics and government — 1933-1945.
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The capture, the prison pen, and the escape : giving a complete history of prison life in the south, principally at Richmond, Danville, Macon Savannah .. Hartford, Conn. : 1868. 400 pages : illustrations, front. ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E611 G553
United States — History — Civil war — Prison life.
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Private journal, 1862-1865 : with selections from the post-war years, 1865-1876 Tuscaloosa, Ala. : Confederate Pub. Co., 1963. 148 pages : port. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E605 W17
United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Personal narratives — Confederate side.
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Absalom Grimes, Confederate mail runner New Haven : Yale University Press, 1926. xii, 216 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E605 G86
Quaife, Milo Milton, 1880-1959.
United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Personal narratives, Confederate.
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The blockade-runners : true tales of running the Yankee blockade of the Confederate coast / drawing by Jack Woodson. New York : Dodd, Mead, 1968. xiv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E600 H81
United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Blockades.
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United States. Naval History Division
Civil War naval chronology, 1861-1865 / compiled by Naval History Division, Navy Department. Washington, D.C. : Department of the Navy, 1971. 1117 pages in various pagings : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E591 U58 1971
Reprint of the 1961-66 edition published by Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off. Includes index.
United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Naval operations Chronology.
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United States. Naval History Division
Civil War naval chronology, 1861-1865 Washington, D.C. : For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Govt. Print. Office, 1961-66. 6 v. : illustrations, maps, ports. ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E591 U58
Includes index.
United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Naval operations.
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The first year of the war / by Edward A. Pollard. Corr. & improved [2nd] ed. Richmond : West & Johnston, 1862. 389 pages : port., map. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E487 P76 F52
United States — History — Civil War.
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Great Britain and the American civil war / Ephraim Douglass Adams. New York : Russell & Russell, 1924-. 2 v. in 1 : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E469 Ad1
United States — Foreign relations — 1861-1865
United States — Civil War — Foreign public opinion
Great Britain — Foreign relations — United States
United States — Foreign relations — Great Britain.
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Arthur Thurston's Tallahassee skipper : the biography of John Taylor Wood, Merrimac gunner, soldier-at-sea, guardian of the Confederate treasury, adopted Nova Scotian Yarmouth : Lescarbot, 1981. 434 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E467.1 W876 T544
Ship captains — Confederate States of America — Biography
United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Naval operations.
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John Taylor Wood, Sea Ghost of the Confederacy / Royce Gordon Shingleton. Athens : University of Georgia Press, 1979. xiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E467.1 W876 S556
Includes index.
Ship captains — Southern States — Biography
United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Naval operations.
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The struggle against slavery : a history in documents / David Waldstreicher. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001. 173 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E447 W35 2001
Slaves — United States — Social conditions Sources Juvenile literature
Free African Americans — Social conditions Sources Juvenile literature
African Americans — Civil rights — History Sources Juvenile literature
Antislavery
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The life of Boston King : Black loyalist, minister and master carpenter / Boston King ; edited by Ruth Holmes Whitehead and Carmelita A.M. Robertson. Halifax : Nimbus Pub. and the Nova Scotia Museum, 2003. 60 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E444 K45 2002
Whitehead, Ruth Holmes
Robertson, Carmelita.
Slaves — Biography. — United States
Black loyalists — Biography. — Nova Scotia
Methodist Church — Clergy — Biography.
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Speeches in stirring times, and letters to a son / edited with introductory sketch and notes by Richard H. Dana. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1910. 520 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E415.9 D15
Dana, Richard Henry, 1851-1931, ed.
Slavery — United States
Fugitive slaves — United States
United States — Politics and government.
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