Events from the year 1731 in Canada .
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Pennsylvania lieutenant governor forwards 1718 study of French trade routes and "their Indians " and means to "prevent the designs of the French"[ 5]
Pennsylvania lieutenant governor says his province and New York worry French are co-opting their frontiers and Indigenous people on them[ 6]
New York vulnerable to French, who have fort at Crown Point , priests , and "people that runn amongst the Indians and are much like them "[ 7]
New Hampshire survey finds "no Indians" in N.H. and some in eastern Massachusetts, and "extreamly numerous" French in Canada and Cape Breton [ 8]
How Newfoundland fits into trade network of Middle Atlantic colonies , Indigenous people, Britain, Spain, Portugal and West Indies [ 9]
Board of Trade advised that Newfoundland justice of the peace and fishing admiral have distinctly different powers, with former superior to latter[ 10]
"The ignorant people are possess'd" - Clout of fishing admirals and others makes enforcement formidable for Newfoundland governor and justices[ 11]
"The fear we are in" - Newfoundland justices of the peace characterize Irish Catholics and transported felons as especially dangerous[ 12]
Nova Scotia has few English (besides military ), no Blacks and about 800 Acadian families, who "are increas'd near one half" in 10 years[ 13]
To avoid settlement delay, Nova Scotia leadership suggests simultaneous survey of forests reserved for Navy and land to be open to settlers[ 14]
Nova Scotia acknowledges dependence on French currency and Boston paper money , and limited food resources with settlers expected[ 15]
Nova Scotians claiming land that is unworked must show why it should not be disposed of for benefit of Crown and "fresh settlers"[ 16]
"Ungovernable people" - Lieutenant governor distrusts holders of old French land grants, and thinks Acadian justices would inform on rest of Acadians[ 17]
Nova Scotia Council agrees unanimously that Boston company should be allowed to mine coal at site near Cape Chignecto [ 18]
Preponderant New England property owners prevent proper settlement in Canso , and thus schooners prevail over in-shore fishing[ 19]
Canso fishery also varies from Newfoundland's because no inhabitants are involved (except in salt curing ) and no servants nor soldiers fish[ 20]
Prompted by 1731 Nova Scotia letter, Board of Trade notes "complaints of the very bad manner in which the Canso fish is cured"[ 21]
Armstrong informs Council of his instructions "forbiding laying any Duty on Negroes or ffelons [sic] imported into this province[ 22]
Surveyor of His Majesty's Woods in Maine finds "gentry" have "stragling manner of settlement" that provokes "insults of the Indians"[ 23]
Dunbar warns "Indian deeds" imply "ye Indians have a right to dispose of all ye rest of ye lands" (while they say lands are inalienable)[ 24]
Decision coming on Massachusetts claim to Nova Scotia land west of Penobscot River , but Dunbar should still add settlements east of there[ 25]
Tract of land between Kennebec and St. Croix rivers determined to be under government of Massachusetts, and settler land claims there valid[ 26]
References
^ Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
^ "George I" . Official web site of the British monarchy . 30 December 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016 .^ "Robert Rogers" . The Canadian Encyclopedia. ^ "Beauchêne, Robert Chevalier" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine . The Canadian Encyclopedia. ^ "89 ii Paper drawn up by Mr. Logan in 1718" Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 38, 1731. Accessed 19 May 2021^ 478 Letter of Lt. Gov. Gordon (November 10, 1731), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 38, 1731. Accessed 21 May 2021^ "464 Rip Van Dam to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (November 2, 1731), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 38, 1731. Accessed 21 May 2021^ 126 ii (xiv-xvii) Answers to Board of Trade queries (March 25, 1731), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 38, 1731. Accessed 20 May 2021^ The Importance of the British Plantations in America to This Kingdom (1731), pgs. 97-8. Accessed 13 May 2021^ 110 Legal opinion (March 30, 1731), 319 Fishing admirals' interference Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 38, 1731. Accessed 20 May 2021^ 422 Letter of George Clinton (October 1, 1731), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 38, 1731. Accessed 21 May 2021^ "422 ii (m) Justices of the Peace of St. Johns to Governor Clinton" (August 20, 1731), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 38, 1731. Accessed 21 May 2021^ 37 i (x-xi) Nova Scotia survey answers (1731), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 28 May 2021^ "44 Council of Trade and Plantations to the King" (February 9, 1731), 176 Privy Council authorizes Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 38, 1731. Accessed 19 May 2021^ "Proclamation to regulate Currency and Exports" (March 11, 1731), Nova Scotia Archives; Commission Book, 1720-1741, pgs. 181-2. Accessed 18 May 2021^ "Proclamation Regarding Unclaimed Lands" (August 25, 1731), Nova Scotia Archives; Commission Book, 1720-1741, pg. 183. Background to proclamation Accessed 18 May 2021^ "427 Lt. Governor Armstrong to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (October 5, 1731), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 38, 1731. Accessed 21 May 2021^ Council meeting minutes (June 24, 1731), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pgs. 179-80. Accessed 18 May 2021^ 24 Letter of Capt. Thomas Waterhous (January 22, 1731), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 38, 1731. Accessed 19 May 2021^ "24 v Answers to preceding by Capt. Waterhous" (January 22, 1731), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 38, 1731. Accessed 19 May 2021^ "87 Representation of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to the House of Commons" (February 15, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 28 May 2021^ Council meeting minutes (December 10, 1731 instructions; minutes of September 4, 1732), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pg. 253. Accessed 18 May 2021^ 12 Letter of David Dunbar (January 12, 1731), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 38, 1731. Accessed 19 May 2021^ 217 Letter of David Dunbar (June 4, 1731), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 38, 1731. Accessed 20 May 2021^ 49 Trade Board to David Dunbar (February 11, 1731), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 38, 1731. Accessed 19 May 2021^ "353 Mr. Attorney and Mr. Solicitor General to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (August 11, 1731), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 38, 1731. Accessed 20 May 2021
1731 in North America
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