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Events from the year 1722 in Canada.
Incumbents
[edit]Governors
[edit]- Governor General of New France: Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil
- Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
- Governor of Nova Scotia: John Doucett
- Governor of Placentia: Samuel Gledhill
Events
[edit]- The Tuscarora become the sixth tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy.
- Haudenosee League admits Tuscarora as 6th Nation. The refugee band was accepted according to the terms of the League Constitution. No other Native Nations had such a provision as this, other alliances and "confederations" were all temporary and informal.
Births
[edit]- March 23 - born Marguerite-Thérèse Lemoine Despins (1722–1792) the second Mother Superior of the Grey Nuns. (died 1792)
Deaths
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Historical documents
[edit]"[T]o gain the Indians[...]is to sell them no rum, nor to chett them in[...]trade, and to lett them know [we] will be their master."[3]
Haudenosaunee urge French not to regarrison their village near Montreal because soldiers make women unsafe and youth disruptive[4]
Abenaki at Nanrantsouak defer to Jesuit missionary in religion, council and relations with New Englanders (Note: "savages" used)[5]
Passenger reports capture with others on sloop from Annapolis Royal by French-allied Indigenous men at Passamaquoddy[6]
Gov. Shute declares war on "our Eastern Indians" who kill settlers, as Gov. Vaudreuil admits supporting attacks on vessels[7]
New York requests garrisons on Indigenous land to extend frontier to Great Lakes for trade strategy spanning Mississippi to St. Lawrence[8]
New York's expanding influence on Lake Ontario approved of, though building Niagara fort needs "consent of the Indian Proprietors"[9]
Though "flourishing state of" Canso fishery would draw settlers, survey delay prevents Nova Scotia governor from granting land[10]
Several forts needed for security of Nova Scotia, most immediately at Canso, where French dispute British "sole right" to fishery[11]
Nova Scotia leaders report attacks on British ships and residents, with hostage-taking by both sides[12]
New York Assembly strengthens law against "the selling of Indian goods to the French," which does most to increase French power[13]
Commodore in Newfoundland must intervene when New Englanders "entice and carry away handycraftmen, seamen and fishermen"[14]
"[O]ther men[...]run away with my works" - Mariner complains about someone preempting him with Nova Scotia map based on his data[15]
References
[edit]- ^ 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).
- ^ 68 i Letter of Capt. Cyprian Southack (Boston, March 6, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 23 February 2021
- ^ "Decree of the Royal Council: The Missionaries of Sault St. Louis, 1722," The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. LXVII. Accessed 22 February 2021 http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_67.html (scroll down to "Page 71")
- ^ Letter of Sébastien Rasles (October 15, 1722), The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. LXVII. Accessed 22 February 2021 http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_67.html (scroll down to "Page 83")
- ^ "Boston, June 25" The (Philadelphia) American Weekly, No. 134 ("From Thursday June 28th to Thursday July 5th, 1722"), pgs. 78-9. Accessed February 25, 2021
- ^ "242 Governor Shute to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (July 27, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 24 February 2021
- ^ 28 Letter of Adjutant Archibald Kennedy (January 24, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 23 February 2021
- ^ 171 Council of Trade and Plantations to Governor Burnet (June 6, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 24 February 2021
- ^ "134 Council of Trade and Plantations to Lord Carteret" (May 10, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 24 February 2021
- ^ "156 Council of Trade and Plantations to Lord Carteret" (May 25, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 24 February 2021
- ^ "205 Lt. Governor Doucett to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (Annapolis Royal, June 29, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 24 February 2021; "288 Governor Philipps to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (Canso, September 19, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 25 February 2021 (Also see: "Governor Philipps to Board of Trade" (Canso, September 19, 1722), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pgs. 61-2. Accessed 22 February 2021)
- ^ "Governor Burnet to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (December 12, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 25 February 2021
- ^ "117 Bryan Wheelock, acting Secretary to the Council of Trade, to Mr. West" (April 28, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 24 February 2021
- ^ 5 Letter of Capt. Cyprian Southack (January 10, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 23 February 2021
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