Accounts, 1711-1712.

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Accounts, 1711-1712.

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Accounts, 1711-1712, kept for Peter Van Brugh and Hendrick Hansen in their capacity as commissioners, perhaps by Killian Van Rensselaer. The accounts list supplies given to troops and to Indians, giving details of the names of individual units, captains and tribes. They include some entries dealing with the disposition of surplus goods after it was decided in late 1711 not to proceed with the expedition. Supplies include weapons, clothing, foodstuffs, tobacco and rum; there is also a record of payment to an Indian boy who presented a "tyger" to the Governor. A few loose sheets of accounts from the early eighteenth century are laid into the book. The latter part of the volume contains accounts dated 1773-1775, evidently a school exercise, probably by James Bleecker, whose name appears at the front of the book with the date 1773.

1 v. (136 p.)

New-York Historical Society

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Hansen, Hendrick.

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Van Rensselaer, K. K. (Killian Killian), 1763-1845

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Bleecker, James

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Van Brugh, Peter.

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New York (State). Commissioners to purchase provisions and other necessaries for the expedition against Canada.

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An overland attack against Montreal was projected in 1711, to support the naval expedition against Quebec. Samuel Vetch took part in the naval expedition; he was responsible for the overall plan, approved in 1709, for the conquest of Canada, and had led the successful expedition against Port Royal (N.S.) in 1710. From the description of Accounts, 1711-1712. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58772088 ...

Vetch, Samuel, 1668-1732

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First British governor of Nova Scotia, 1710-1712, 1715-1717. Vetch, a Scotsman by birth, came to America in 1699 and settled first in New York, later removing to Boston. After some years in border trade, Vetch offered his plan of conquest to a Whig Ministry which empowered him to carry it out. In 1710 the expedition under Nicholson and Vetch effected the Capture of Port Royal and Acadia. From the description of Papers, 1708-1712. (Columbia University In the C...