Events from the year 1723 in Canada .
Incumbents
Governors
Births
Deaths
Historical documents
Indigenous peoples previously unknown in New York come from as far away as
Michilimackinac and
Miami lands to
trade
[3]
Five Nations (now
Six with acceptance of
Tuscarora ) receive scores of "far Indians" from Michilimackinac to be seventh nation
[4]
Abenaki tell
priest to "conquer" himself to learn their ways, as they did "to believe that which we do not see" (Note: "savage" used)
[5]
"Englishmen!" - Note left for enemy at
Nanrantsouak assures them of Abenaki revenge that will not "end but with the world"
[6]
Massachusetts fights "wrangling
war " with Indigenous people while supplying them "powder and shot[...], to murther ourselves"
[7]
Governors of
Massachusetts and
Canada exchange series of letters arguing which is right in New England's war with Abenaki
[8]
"Insolent letter" of governor of Canada warns Massachusetts that French will enter war unless "Bounds of the
Indians Land " are settled
[9]
New York Council approves treaty whereby Five Nations will assist Massachusetts in war with "Eastern Indians"
[10]
Governor Dummer welcomes leaders of
Haudenosaunee and other nations to Boston pursuant to their treaty with Massachusetts
[11]
New York governor says French risk losing influence with Five Nations who are helping Massachusetts fight French-allied "
Algonkins "
[12]
"Those cruel Monsters" - Newspaper reports of Indigenous men attacking settlers at
Northfield and Rutland
[13]
"
Cagnowago " men "are very sorry and ashamed" for taking part in raid on
Northfield, Massachusetts
[14]
"We shall generally observe that the politest Indians were farther remov'd from both the Poles" (Note: "brutal" and other
racial stereotypes )
[15]
Naval timber of future
New Brunswick cheaper than New England's, and
Canso can become "most considerable[...]port in America"
[16]
Pirates have taken upwards of 20 French vessels near
Île Royale , including 22-gun warship, and similar number on
Grand Banks
[17]
With
loss of
Placentia , French government encourages Île-Royale (Cape Breton Island) with duty exemption on fish and fish oil
[18]
Quoting
John Locke 's
essay on civil government ,
St. John's residents "embody ourselves into a community for[...]mutual preservation"
[19]
"Very great help to the trade" -
Salmon fishery set up "on Great and Little
Salmonier , Corret and
Bisca Bay Rivers," Newfoundland
[20]
"Highly injur'd" - Merchants complain about overbearing Newfoundland garrison
officers fishing and trading to foreign parts
[21]
Newfoundland survey answers include: more liquor sold on Sunday, and servants and New England merchants are paid in fish
[22]
Illustration: Highly imaginative
depiction of Indigenous people carrying coffin in grand procession
[23]
References
^ Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
^ Gibbs, G. C. (September 2004; online edn, January 2006)
"George I (1660–1727)" , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ,
Oxford University Press ,
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/10538 . Retrieved 30 July 2007 (subscription required).
^
"Papers Relating to an Act...for Encouragement of the Indian Trade..." The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada, Which Are Dependent on the Province of New-York[...] (1747), pgs. 21-2 following Part II. Accessed 2 March 2021
^
"605 Governor Burnet to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (June 25, 1723), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 5 March 2021
^ Letter of Sébastien Rasles (Narantsouak, October 12, 1723), The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. LXVII. Accessed 3 March 2021
http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_67.html (scroll down to Page 139)
^
"805 xi Translation of notice 'found upon the Church door at Norridgewack'" Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 5 March 2021
^
530 Report of Thomas (?Moore; Boston, May 16, 1723) Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 4 March 2021
^
805 iii, iv, v, viii Letters of Gov. Shute and Gov. Vaudreuil (various dates, 1721-3)), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 5 March 2021
^
"Boston, November 25" The (Philadelphia) American Weekly Mercury, No. 208 ("From Thursday December 5th, to Tuesday December 10th, 1723"), pg. 134. Accessed 8 March 2021
^
550 Letter of Governor William Burnet (May 29, 1723), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 5 March 2021
^
"Boston August 26" The (Philadelphia) American Weekly Mercury, No. 194 ("From Thursday August 29th, to Thursday September 5th, 1723"), pg. 96. Accessed 8 March 2021
^
791 Letter of Governor Burnet (December 16, 1723), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 5 March 2021
^
"Boston August 19" The (Philadelphia) American Weekly Mercury, No. 193 ("From Thursday August 22d, to Thursday August 29th, 1723"), pg. 94. Accessed 8 March 2021
^
805 ix, x Letters of John (Johannes?) Schuyler (Albany, December 6 and November 28, 1723), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 5 March 2021
^
"Esquimaux" Canada, or New-France (1723?), pg. 196. Accessed 26 April 2021
^
766 i Governor's report on Nova Scotia (November 28, 1723), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 5 March 2021
^
"New York, September 23" The (Philadelphia) American Weekly Mercury, No. 198 ("From Thursday September 26th, to Thursday October 4th, 1723"), pg. 106. Accessed 8 March 2021
^
"Extract from Savary's Dictionaire de Commerce" The Great Importance of Cape Breton[...] (1746), pgs. 35-6. Accessed 2 March 2021
^
"59 Proceedings of the Harbour of St. Johns on 26th Nov., 1723" Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 34, 1724-1725. Accessed 12 March 2021
^
"730 Commodore H. Cayley to the Council of Trade and Plantations" ("Dover, at St. John's, N.fland," October 19, 1723), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 5 March 2021
^ Samuel Baker and 11 others,
"475 Petition of London Merchants Trading to Placentia to the Council of Trade and Plantations" ("Read 21st March, 1722/3"), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 4 March 2021
^
"1. ...Answers to Heads of Enquiry relating to the Fishery and Trade of Newfoundland, 1723" Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 34, 1724-1725. Accessed 12 March 2021
^ B. Picart,
Convoi funêbre des peuples du Canada (1723). Accessed 3 March 2021
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