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The Letters: Imaging and Transcription
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Edward Winslow Letters, 1783-1785: Image and Transcription
The letters written to and from Edward Winslow from 1783 to 1785 in the Winslow Family Papers, University of New Brunswick Archives, have been transcribed and are fully searchable on this site. Although Edward Winslow kept correspondence from most periods of his adult life, these three tumultuous years are especially rich, covering his arrival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in April 1783, to the time when he and his extended family settled in the colony of New Brunswick in 1785. Well connected socially and politically, Winslow corresponded with a number of highly placed political and military figures in this period as he tried to settle his uprooted family, re-establish his career and set the colony of New Brunswick on a path that would make it the "envy of the American states." Read chronologically, the letters provide an unparalleled documentary account of the early years of Loyalist experience in Maritime Canada.
W.O. Raymond's Winslow Letters contain extensive, if idiosyncratic, footnotes. These have been edited, supplemented and linked to the letters to help the reader identify many of the individuals mentioned.
Winslow Family Papers 1695-1866
While only three years of Winslow's correspondence has been transcribed, the entire Winslow Family Papers have been imaged and will be searchable using the subject index created by Barry Grant. A public launch is scheduled for summer 2005.
Benjamin Marston Diary, 1776-1779
Benjamin Marston (1730-1792), a cousin of Edward Winslow, was also a Loyalist. He kept a diary from 1776 to 1787 which is found in the Winslow Family Papers, volumes 20, 21 and 22. His diary entries for the years 1776 to 1779 have been transcribed. They include his experiences as a Loyalist exile in Nova Scotia, the West Indies and Newfoundland.
http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/marston/
Ward Chipman Slavery Brief, 1800: Image and Transcription
This document, also held by the University of New Brunswick Archives, was written in conjunction with a celebrated New Brunswick court case relating to the legality of slavery in the colony of New Brunswick. Ward Chipman was a close friend of Edward Winslow.