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05-003/001(02) · File · 1814
Part of David Macmillan collection. 2005 accession

File consists of a letter from E.W. Armstrong (Dartmouth College) to Aaron Greeley (1773- ?) of New Hampshire, son of surveyor Aaron Greeley who was a cousin of Zaccheus Burnham. Letter accounts the daily inconveniences and difficulties of being a soldier and how American soldiers suffer the inconveniences of war more than do the Europeans. Includes religious overtones.

05-003/001(03) · File · 1832-1843
Part of David Macmillan collection. 2005 accession

File consists of letters relating to the building of the canal, the arrival in Quebec of a new Governor of Commissioners (1835), the building of a bridge at Buckhorn Rapids, and receipts and letters about debts. Correspondents include J. Hughes; Lawrence Brown; Killaby; Adam Baird; G.B. Hall; Thomas Wilson; John McIntyre; and Thomas A. Bigby, Board of Works, Kingston.

05-003/001(06) · File · 1844-1850
Part of David Macmillan collection. 2005 accession

File includes letters and other documents relating to problems regarding men employed at Crooks' Rapids, setting up mill 1844; damage claims by Jas. Crooks re mill at Crooks' Rapids on the River Trent, mention of grant of land given to Crooks by Birdsall to build the mill 1850; Birdsall instructing sons to improve their studies 1850. Correspondents include Birdsall's sons, James Crooks, and Thomas A. Bigly

05-003/001(07) · File · 1842-1894
Part of David Macmillan collection. 2005 accession

File includes deposit notes, receipts, and letters pertaining to court fees and the interpretation of a bylaw relating to the Public Schools Act (1894). Correspondents include A.B. Aglesworth and James Douglas.

05-003/001(67) · File · 1835
Part of David Macmillan collection. 2005 accession

Handwritten on outside: "By indenture of conveyance dated the 9th day of November 1910 part of the land within described was conveyed to Bernard Patrick Donnelly by the University of Sydney which covenanted to produce this Crown Grant. By Indenture of Conveyance dated the 9th day of November 1910 part of the land within described was conveyed to James Turner and others by the University of Sydney which covenanted to produce this Crown Grant."

05-003/001(10) · File · 1836-1838
Part of David Macmillan collection. 2005 accession

File consists of letters on a range of topics, including a communique regarding the establishment of the Black River Literary and Religious Institute (Antwerp, New York 1836) and religion and education matters in New York State, Vermont, Waterloo & Saint Francis & Portage in Lower Canada. Correspondents include Henry Jones; James. J. Gilbert; James. McGillivray; Z.S.M. Hersey; W. Ritchie; Rev. H.B. Chapin; P.P. O'Sunkirhine; Rev. J. Ingraham; Lucretin Smith; Rev. R. Cairn.

05-003 · Collection · 1655-1918

This collection is comprised of disparate documents collected by Professor David Macmillan. The scope of the papers is primarily North America, 1680 to 1918.

Macmillan, David Stirling
05-003/001(12) · File · 1827-1857
Part of David Macmillan collection. 2005 accession

File consists of letters to James Dawson, including those from George R. Young, Thomas Rankin, William Dobson, C. Lyell, R. Brown, Wallace Barry, and L. White Williams. Topics include accounts; the problem of translating Scriptures for the "Mickmak" and comments on characteristics of Indigenous people; items shipped from Lloyds held up aboard the Thetis which is awaiting repairs; C. Lyell has done a great deal of geological research and collected fossils in U.S. and southern and eastern Canada, includes sketches of river bed or shoreline; discovery of reptilian footstep; and scientific research on geological specimens.

05-003/001(17) · File · 1800-1813
Part of David Macmillan collection. 2005 accession

File includes letters from Gale Ford, N. Ford, and J. [Kent] relating to problems getting barrels of ground flour across river at New York state; the War of 1812; the capture of French army (8000 troops) and Captain M. Ney (March 31, 1811); speculation re possibility of "taking Canada"; and fighting at Oswego & Lockets Harbour, 40 Mile Creek