Alexander Baranov establishes Russian post known today as Old Sitka; trade charter grants exclusive trading rights to the Russian American Company.
Vermont answers Indian chiefs, in Canada, that their claims were extinguished by treaties of 1763 and 1783 between France, Great Britain and the United States.
Two cases are filed challenging slavery in New Brunswick: R v Jones and R v Agnew.
While hoping fever in L.C. is in decline, Gazette publishes "Rules of Prevention and Suppression of Epidemic[...]for the use of the Poor"[8]
After recounting legal history of slavery, Montreal petitioners ask that "whenever any PanisorNegro Slave" escapes, they shall be jailed and returned[9]
Auction sale: "937 Ship Timbers, 130 Oak Knees, 3,461 feet Pine Plank, and 8,346 feet Oak [plank, enough for 2 vessels of about 150 tons each]"[11]
Call for bids to build court house, including masonry, carpentry, labourers, and Pointe-aux-Trembles, Beauport and Ange Gardien, and Cape stone[12]
Visitor admires Catholic churches' "historic scripture paintings," providing rich, instructive scenes that Protestants stripped from their own churches[13]
For sale: "About 50 Boxes Lemons and Oranges, just arrived[...]from Fayal [Azores]. The vessel having a short passage, they are in excellent order"[15]
Quebec City furrier advertises "Gentleman's and Lady's Muff and Tippets" in wolf, bear, wolverine, fox, lynx, marten and other kinds of skin[16]
Owner of mineral spring in "St. John Suburbs" of Quebec City publishes Dr. Nooth's certificate that waters may be remedy for various diseases[17]
"Dreading revolutions," Britain encourages U.S. farmers and labourers more than clergy and teachers, limiting new congregations and schools[18]
Persons occupying land without "any Authority, Licence, or Title" must vacate it, and failing to do so will disqualify them from land grants[19]
Widow whose eldest son left country wants late husband's deed put in her and other children's names in case son returns to claim father's land[20]
"From unavoidable events," woman wants to sell Yonge Street lot granted her, but must get permission, which also includes 200-acre grant elsewhere[21]
Woman's husband's land was taken in 1778 and he imprisoned, she escaped to U.C. where she is "old & infirm & very poor;" petition for land rejected[22]
York, "beautifully situated" and "increasing very rapidly," has beach "considered so healthy by the Indians, that they go there whenever indisposed"[23]
Dereham and Norwich townships, between Thames River and Lake Erie, are to be divided and sold in 3,000-acre lots, with bidders paying 50% down[24]
Brant wishes to sell 69,120 acres to government for transfer to Count de Puisaye, or "it would appear that our former freedoms is taken from us"[27]
Visitor to Kingston profiles Molly Brant as "a faithful and useful friend in Indian affairs, [and who] receives a pension and compensation for losses"[28]
Town wardens can take into apprenticeship any child whose parent has died or abandoned them, though children age 14 and older must consent[29]
Doctors' offer to inoculate Haligonians against smallpox turned down, but any wanting their children inoculated are to be permitted (away from town)[30]
Call for proposals to deliver materials for new government buildings, including 30,000 square feet of "free-stone" and 80,000 bricks[38]
Inspector of hospitals will no longer pay for articles he has not ordered or received[39]
Day labourer, "a very poor man" unable to support 6 children under 12 years old, wants 500 acres outright or by occupation until he can pay for it[40]
Day labourer asks for land grant to help support half-siblings he has taken charge of since his father died and mother remarried[41]
Louisbourg veteran, 35 years in N.S., has spent last 17 years on land abandoned by rebel but pays latter's mother £3/yr., and wants that land granted[42]
To keep out "Desolating Disorders," persons coming from U.S. places with yellow fever or other disease must have JP's written approval to land[47]
Miramichi fishers ask Assembly to amend law allowing large nets in lower river and bay that kill so many fish that they can't support their families[48]
Indigenous man Lewis Joseph granted land on Grand Lake to make harbour for his vessel carrying coal for government[49]
Saint John mayor asks those "who wish to become Freemen of this City" to take "Oath of a free Citizen" before aldermen at city hall[50]
Young ("about 19") Black woman and child for sale; she "is well acquainted with a Dairy, and understands all kinds of House-work"[51]
Because of "jibing the sail," five men drown in mail boat that is upset while crossing to Saint Andrews[52]
^A Short Topographical Description of His Majesty's Province of Upper Canada[....] (1799), pgs. 9-10 (frames 18-19), University of Alberta. Accessed 20 March 2024
^Letter of Joseph Brandt to Peter Russell (January 27, 1799), Indian Affairs; Lieutenant-Governor's Office - Upper Canada; Correspondence, 1796-1806, pgs. 261-3 (frames 298–300). Accessed 1 March 2024
^J.C. Ogden, A Tour through Upper and Lower Canada (1799), pgs. pgs. 84–5, 86 Accessed 8 March 2024
^"United States; American Congress; Tuesday, January 8; President's Message [and] Circular," The St. John Gazette and Weekly Advertiser, Volume XIII, Number 669 (March 22, 1799), pg. 2 of 2 (righthand page, 1st column). Accessed 4 March 2024
^"With the truest Pleasure[....]," The Royal Gazette, and the Nova-Scotia Advertiser, Vol. XI, No. 603 (July 30, 1799), pg. 3 (3rd column bottom). Accessed 7 March 2024
^"Montreal, 29th May, 1799; The Province of Canada," The Quebec Gazette, Num. 1781 (June 20, 1799), Cahier 1, pg. 4. (See also other fundraising here (pgs. 1–3) and in later issues) Accessed 13 March 2024
^"By Auction," The Quebec Gazette, Num. 1781 (June 20, 1799), Cahier 2, pg. 1. Accessed 13 March 2024
^Letter of Joseph Brant to Lieut. Gov. Peter Hunter (September 6, 1799; damaged, and page missing), Indian Affairs; Lieutenant-Governor's Office - Upper Canada; Correspondence, 1796-1806, pgs. 268-9, 271 (HTML pgs. 305-7). Accessed 15 March 2024
^Letter of Joseph Brant to Capt. Claus (March 14, 1799), Brant Family Correspondence, 1791–1885, Joseph Brant and family fonds, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 15 March 2024
^Letter of Joseph Brant to John Johnson (May 10, 1799), Brant Family Correspondence, 1791–1885, Joseph Brant and family fonds, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 18 March 2024
^J.C. Ogden, A Tour through Upper and Lower Canada (1799), pgs. pgs. 61–2 Accessed 8 March 2024
^Chap. III; An Act to provide for the Education and Support of Orphan Children (1799), The Statutes of His Majesty's province of Upper-Canada[....], pg. 147 Accessed 1 March 2024
^"Halifax; May 21; Yesterday arrived[....]," The Royal Gazette, and the Nova-Scotia Advertiser, Vol. XI, No. 593 (May 21, 1799), pg. 3 (3rd column). Accessed 6 March 2024
^Letter of Rev. John Wiswall (November 1, 1799), PDF frame 116, Esther Clark Wright and Atlantic Baptist Archives, Acadia University. Accessed 11 March 2024
^"Halifax, March 12; Died[....]" (March 12, 1799), The Royal Gazette, and the Nova-Scotia Advertiser, Vol. XI, No. 583 (March 12, 1799), pg. 3 (2nd column). Accessed 6 March 2024
^"Proclamation" (August 19, 1799), The Royal Gazette, and the Nova-Scotia Advertiser, Vol. XI, No. 605 (August 20, 1799), pg. 3 (4th column). Accessed 7 March 2024
^"Twenty Dollars Reward" (June 16, 1799), The Royal Gazette, and the Nova-Scotia Advertiser, Vol. XI, No. 597 (June 18, 1799), pg. 3 (4th column). Accessed 6 March 2024
^"Deserted" (December 2, 1799), The Royal Gazette, and the Nova-Scotia Advertiser, Vol. XI, No. 620 (December 3, 1799), pg. 3 (2nd column). Accessed 8 March 2024
^"Materials Wanted[....]" (March 18, 1799), The Royal Gazette, and the Nova-Scotia Advertiser, Vol. XI, No. 584 (March 19, 1799), pg. 3 (4th column). (See also enabling legislation (pg. 2, 1st column)) Accessed 6 March 2024
^"The Subscriber about two years ago[....]" (August 27, 1799), The Royal Gazette, and the Nova-Scotia Advertiser, Vol. XI, No. 606 (August 27, 1799), pg. 3 (1st column bottom). Accessed 7 March 2024
^"To be Sold[....]" (March 26, 1799), The Royal Gazette, and the Nova-Scotia Advertiser, Vol. XI, No. 584 (April 2, 1799), pg. 4 (2nd column). Accessed 6 March 2024
^"Cures for the Cancer" (July 2?, 1799), The Royal Gazette, and the Nova-Scotia Advertiser, Vol. XI, No. 597 (July 16, 1799), pg. 2 (2nd column). Accessed 7 March 2024
^"New-Brunswick, 31st January, 1799), The St. John Gazette and Weekly Advertiser, Volume XIV, Number 658 (February 15, 1799), pg. 2 of 2 (lefthand page, 4th column). Accessed 1 March 2024
^"Those Persons who wish[....]" (January 4, 1799), The St. John Gazette and Weekly Advertiser, Volume XIV, Number 658 (January 4, 1799), pg. 2 of 2 (righthand page, 4th column). (See also Horatio Nelson's letter (pg. 2, "Vanguard[....]") referring to his being freeman of the city of London) Accessed 1 March 2024
^"For Sale, a Negro Wench and Child" (March 1, 1799), The St. John Gazette and Weekly Advertiser, Volume XIII, Number 668 (March 15, 1799), pg. 1 of 2 (lefthand page, 3rd column). Accessed 4 March 2024
^"Melancholy Accident," The St. John Gazette and Weekly Advertiser, Volume XIII, Number 669 (March 22, 1799), pg. 2 of 2 (righthand page, 3rd column). Accessed 4 March 2024
^"Letters(...)from the Settlements on the Coast of Labrador"1797-1800, vol. 02: Periodical accounts relating to the missions of the Church of the United Brethren established among the heathen, pg. 325 (frame 357), Memorial University of Newfoundland. Accessed 15 March 2024
^"The Zenophon of 22 guns[....]," The Quebec Gazette, Num. 1776 Cahier 1 (May 23, 1799), pg. 4. Accessed 12 March 2024
