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Le Grand D'erangement:
Exhibit Sources

French and British Presence in Acadia, 1498-1748

  • A New Map of Nova Scotia, and Cape Britain. With the adjacent parts of New England and Canada, composed from a great number of actual surveys. 1755. SC1, Series 38X, Transcripts and Documents Collected in France, 1492-1850, v. 2: no. 9. Massachusetts Archives.
  • Treaty of Breda (1667). Goldsmith'-Kress Library of Economic Literature, no. 1831, Baker Library, Harvard Business School.
  • Treaty of Utrecht (1713) from Statutes, treaties and documents of the Canadian Constitution, 1713-1929 by W. P. M. Kennedy. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1930. online at www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?display=9_03428+0034 accessed 7 March 2005.

Prelude to War, 1750-1755

  • Plan du fort de Beausejour scitué sur le continent du Canada dans le fond de la Baye francoise. H3/250/Beausejour (Fort)/[1751]. Library and Archives Canada.
  • Governor William Shirley, by Thomas Hudson, c. 1750. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Art Commission.
  • Some Points Stated Concerning the Settlement of the Boundary of Nova Scotia presented to the Massachusetts General Court by William Shirley, 1749. SC1, Series 45X, Massachusetts Archives Collection, 1603-1799, vol. 5, pages 349-359. Massachusetts Archives.
  • Lieutenant governor Spencer Phipps, by Alice Ruggles Sohier, 1930, after a portrait by an unknown artist. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Art Commission.
  • Draft of a Petition submitted to the King of Great Britain by the Massachusetts General Court, 1751. SC1, Series 45X, Massachusetts Archives Collection, 1603-1799, vol. 6, page 90a. Massachusetts Archives.

The Deportation, 1755-1762

  • Colonel John Winslow, by Eleanor Richards, ca. 1920, after a portrait by Joseph Blackburn. Historic Winslow House Association.
  • John Winslow journal, 1744-1757, pages 148-149, 178-179, 197-198. Massachusetts Historical Society.
  • A New and Accurate map of North America: wherein the errors of all preceeding British, French and Dutch maps, respecting the rights of Great Britain, France & Spain & the limits of each of his Majesty's provinces are corrected. 1755. SC1, Series 38X, Transcripts and Documents Collected in France, 1492-1850, v. 2: no. 2. Massachusetts Archives.
  • Detail of map of Bermuda, 1755, number AF-MB-K19. Forbes Collection. Hart Nautical Collections. MIT Museum.

Exiles in Massachusetts, 1755-1766

  • Letter to William Shirley from Charles Lawrence, 11 August 1755. SC1, Series 45X, Massachusetts Archives Collection, 1603-1799, vol. 5, pages 427-432. Massachusetts Archives.
  • General Court committee report on the condition of ships carrying French Neutrals, 7 November 1755. SC1, Series 45X, Massachusetts Archives Collection, 1603-1799, vol. 23, page 3. Massachusetts Archives.
  • Boston Gazette, 23 August 1756. Colonial Newspaper Collection, Boston Public Library Rare Books Department.
  • Massachusetts General Court Acts 1755-1756, Chapter 35. SC7, Series 207, Engrossed Acts. Massachusetts Archives.
  • Governor Thomas Hutchinson, by Walter Gilman Page, 1900, after a portrait by Edward Truman, c. 1741. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Art Commission.

A Case Study: Marshfield and the Acadians

  • Photographic reproduction of a portrait of Nathaniel Ray Thomas, reproduced with permission from Of Tea and Tories: The Story of Revolutionary Marshfield by Cynthia Hagar Krusell. Marshfield, MA: Rapid Service, 1976, page 11.
  • Indenture of Charles Meuse and family, 28 February 1757. SC1, Series 45X, Massachusetts Archives Collection, 1603-1799, vol. 24, page 8. Massachusetts Archives.
  • Lithograph of Thomas-Webster Estate, reproduced with permission from Marshfield, a Town of Villages, 1640-1990, by Cynthia Krusell and Betty Bates. Marshfield Hills, MA: Historical Research Associates, 1990, page 17.
  • Petition submitted to the General Court of Massachusetts by Charles Meuse and Paul Clement, 12 January 1758. SC1, Series 45X, Massachusetts Archives Collection, 1603-1799, vol. 23, page 393. Massachusetts Archives.
  • Petition submitted to the General Court of Massachusetts by Joseph Michel, 30 March 1756. SC1, Series 45X, Massachusetts Archives Collection, 1603-1799, vol. 23, page 51. Massachusetts Archives.
  • Massachusetts General Court Committee report on the petition of Joseph Michel, 26 April 1756. SC1, Series 45X, Massachusetts Archives Collection, 1603-1799, vol. 23, pages 56-57.Massachusetts Archives.
  • Town Meeting Records, Births, & Deaths, [v.3], pages 109, 113, 126. Town Clerk's Office, Marshfield, MA.

Attempts at Relocation, 1763-1766

  • List of Acadians wishing to go to France, 24 August 1763. SC1, Series 45X, Massachusetts Archives Collection, 1603-1799, vol. 24, page 486-491. Massachusetts Archives.
  • Petition submitted to the General Court of Massachusetts by Acadians wishing to go to Quebec, 2 June 1766. SC1, Series 45X, Massachusetts Archives Collection, 1603-1799, vol. 24, pages 562-563 and 565a-569. Massachusetts Archives.
  • Governor Francis Bernard, by Giovanni Battista Troccoli, 1925, after the original by John Singleton Copley, 1776-1779. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Art Commission.
  • Proclamation of Governor Francis Bernard, 28 November 1764. SC1, Series 161x, Transcripts of Public Documents, [vol. 2], page 424. Massachusetts Archives.
  • Extrait de la Capitulation du Canada par mons. de Vaudreuil, 1 March 1765. SC1, Series 45X, Massachusetts Archives Collection, 1603-1799, vol. 24, pages 553-556. Massachusetts Archives.
  • Address of Massachusetts Governor Bernard to the House of Representatives, 13 February 1766. SC1, Series 45X, Massachusetts Archives Collection, 1603-1799, vol. 110, pages 236-237. Massachusetts Archives.
  • Message of the Massachusetts House of Representatives to Governor Bernard, 26 June 1766. SC1, Series 532, House Journal, 1722-2002, vol. 1766-1767, page 129. Massachusetts Archives.

Evangeline and Historic Memory

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [ca. 1860-1865]. Portraits, CHS Image Collection. Cambridge Historical Society, Cambridge, MA.
  • Evangeline postcards. Photo number 78.65.139, 86.90.4, and 89.81.24. History Collection, Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  • Statue of Evangeline. 3-2 Evangeline, St. Martinville. Slide Collection. Louisiana Office of Tourism.
  • Evangeline Oak. 3-1 Evangeline - St. Martinville. Slide Collection. Louisiana Office of Tourism.