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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To the Webster-Ashburton treaty : a study in Anglo-American relations, 1783-1843 / by Howard Jones. Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 1977. xx, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E398 J77
The Webster-Ashburton treaty: pages 181-187.
United States — Foreign relations — Great Britain
Great Britain — Foreign relations — United States.
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Hidden America / by Roland Wells Robbins and Evan Jones. [1st ed.] New York : Knopf, 1959. 263 pages : illus. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E39 R635
Excavations (Archaeology) — United States
United States — Antiquities.
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The diary of Benjamin F. Palmer Boston : Acorn Club, 1914. xxiii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E362 P17
United States — History — War of 1812 — Personal narratives
United States — History — War of 1812 — Prisoners and prisons
Melville Island (N.S.)
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The prisoner of war in the United States during the War of 1812 / by Anthony G. Dietz. Washington, D.C. : American University, 1964. xii, 393 pages ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E362 D566 1964
University Microfilms, Inc. order no. 64-12801. Bibliography: pages [380]-390.
Prisoners of war
United States — History — War of 1812 — Prisoners and prisons.
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Guns off Cape Ann : the story of the Shannon and the Chesapeake / by Kenneth Poolman. London : Evans Bros, 1961. 175 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E360 P822
United States — History — War of 1812 — Naval operations.
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The Naval War of 1812 : a documentary history / William S. Dudley, editor, Michael J. Crawford, associate editor ; with a foreword by John D.H. Kane, Jr.. Washington : Naval Historical Center, Department of Navy : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., G.P.O., 1985-. ill. ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E360 N318
Crawford, Michael J
Dudley, William S.
Naval Historical Center (U.S.)
United States — History — War of 1812 — Naval operations — Sources.
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The fortunes of war : privateering in Atlantic Canada in the War of 1812 / by Faye Kert. 1986. 183 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E360 K41
Privateering — Atlantic Provinces — History
Canada — History — War of 1812
United States — History — War of 1812.
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Personalities of America 2nd ed. Raleigh, N.C. : American Biographical Institute, 1983. xvii, 556 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E36 P467
American Biographical Institute.
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The War of 1812 Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1965. ix, 298 pages : illustrations, maps, ports. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E357 C69
Includes index.
Canada — History — War of 1812
United States — History — War of 1812.
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The British Capture & Occupation of Downeast Maine, 1814-1815/1818 / George F.W. Young. Stonington, ME. : Penobscot Books, 2014. xvii, 124 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E355.6 Y72 2014
Includes index.
Maine — History — War of 1812
Canada — History — War of 1812
United States — History — War of 1812
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The incredible War of 1812 : a military history / by J. Mackay Hitsman. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1965. x, 265 pages : illustrations, facsim., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E355 H63 IN2
United States — History — War of 1812 — Campaigns
United States — History — War of 1812 — Causes
Canada — History, Military — 19th century.
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The critical period of American history, 1783-1789 / by John Fiske. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894. xviii, 368 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E303 F55 C87
United States — History — Confederation, 1783-1789.
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Cobbett's America : a selection from the writings of William Cobbett / edited with an introduction by J.E. Morpurgo. London : Folio Society, 1985. xxxi, 246 pages, [11] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E302 C65 C65
Journalists — Great Britain — Biography
Politicians — Great Britain — Biography
United States — Politics and government — 1789-1865
United States — Politics and government — 1789-1815
United States — De
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The New world compared with the Old : a description of the American government, institutions, and enterprises, and of those of our great rivals at the present time, particularly England and France Hartford, Conn. : S.M. Betts & Company, 1870. 653 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E301 T748
United States — Politics and government
Great Britain — Politics and government
France — Politics and government.
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The narrative of John Blatchford : detailing his sufferings in the Revolutionary War, while a prisoner with the British / as related by himself ; with an introduction and notes by Charles I. Bushnell. New York : 1865. vi, 127 pages, [2] pages of plates : illustrations, port. ; 2
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E281 B61 B96
Includes a reprint of the original t.p.: Narrative of the remarkable occurrences in the life of John Blatchford of Cape Ann ... New London [Conn.] Printed by T. Green, 1788. Also issued as no. 3 of v. 2 of Bushnell's Crumbs for antiquarians, New York, 1864-1866. Privately printed.
Bushnell, Charles Ira, 1826-1883.
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Personal narratives
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Prisoners and prisons.
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Frontier spies : the British Secret Service, Northern Department, during the Revolutionary War / by Hazel C. Mathews. Fort Myers, Fla : Printed by Ace Press, 1971. iv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E279 M42
American loyalists
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Secret service.
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Buckskin pimpernel : the exploits of Justus Sherwood, Loyalist spy / by Mary Beacock Fryer. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1981. 288 pages : maps, port. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E278 S53 F948
Includes index.
American loyalists — Vermont — Biography
United Empire loyalists — Biography
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Biography
Canada — History — 1763-1791 — Biography.
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Jonathan Bliss : a Loyalist success story / by Irene Etta McAfee. Orono- Maine : 1973. 94 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E278 B649 M113
Photocopy of original.
United Empire loyalists
American loyalists.
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Transcriptions of fifteen early muster rolls (for the period 1775-1778) : of the 2nd Battalion Young Royal Highland Regiment of Foot later called the Royal Highland Emigrants, the 84th Regiment of Foot / Alastair Grant. Alastair Grant, 2006. 77 pages : facsims. ; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E277.6 R888 G761 2006
Author and publication information from introduction.; Contained in the Ward Chipman fonds, Library and Archives Canada, MG 23 D-1, Volume27, Microfilm C9818 — from t.p.; Includes index.
United Empire Loyalists — Registers
American loyalists — Registers
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — British Forces — Registers
United States — Genealogy
Canada — Genealogy.
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The civil sword : James Delaney's Westchester refugees / G.R. Vincent. Duncan, B.C. : Cobequid Press, 1997. vii, 287 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E277.6 D3 V56
American loyalists — New York (State) — Westchester County
United Empire loyalists — Nova Scotia
Westchester County (N.Y.) — History — Revolution, 1775-1783
Nova Scotia — History — 1784-1867.
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