Québec (Québec)

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Letter from Hugh Finlay, 9 October 1788

Letter from Hugh Finlay (Superintendent of the Matîres de Poste) to Caleb Green confirming that Finlay will send Green a commission to run post offices in Laprairie, St. Johns (the English name for Fort Saint-Jean at Saint-Jean-sur Richelieu), and a third halfway between the two. The commission includes the right to offer transportation to travellers between Laprairie and Longueuil.

Letter from Jean-Olivier Briand, 24 July 1771

Letter signed J:O B, likely Jean-Olivier Briand, Bishop of Quebec. The "messieurs" to whom the letter is addressed are likely Sieur de Lepallieur and James Morrison. Contents of the letter concern Briand's refusal to reduce the solemnity fees (100 piastres) associated with James Morrison's impending marriage to Suzanne Lepallieur. The couple was married between March and May 1772 at Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal.

Letter from John Antill, 12 October 1789

Letter from John Antill, likely to James Morrison, with business updates about shipments of tar and rum, and a request to visit Lindsay in prison and to try to get some of the payment that he owes.

Letter from John Antill, 24 June 1790

Letter from John Antill, likely to James Morrison, with an update about a sale he is waiting to make until prices increase, and political news from Colonel Winslow from Halifax about conflict with the Spanish.

Letter from John Antill, 24 May 1790

Letter from John Antill to James Morrison. The letter mentions the arrival of the ships Mary Anne and Queen in Quebec City, requests that Morrison speak to Alex Henry about a sum of money, and discusses the illness of Gray and the possibility of Antill succeeding him should he die.

Letter from John Antill, 4 April 1791

Letter from John Antill to James Morrison about business concerns, especially the sale of rum. Mentions an unnamed Black woman formerly enslaved by Mr. McNeil who has arrived in Quebec, about whom Antill writes that he has "given her a permission to work for her self as I did not chuse [choose] to take her into my own house." Also mentions poor condition of roads.

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