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Finding aid for John Montresor Papers
1758-1851

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Collection Overview

Collection Inventory+/-

Biographical Note/Historical Note

Content Description

Collection Use

Administrative Information

Subjects

Collection Overview +/-

Title: John Montresor papers, 1758-1851.
Collection Number: 01835
Repository: Detroit Public Library

Collection Inventory +/-

item: letter (May 1, 1774) (A.L.S.)

to Maj. Henry Basset of New York

item: Warrant (May 13, 1774) (D.S.)

New York

item: Bill of Exc. (May 13, 1774) (D.S.)

Crown Pt. (location)

item: Letter (May 2, 1774) (L.S.)

Haldimand to Montresor concerning Fort Ticonderoga

item: Letter (May 4, 1774) (L.S.)

to William Forman in New York

item: Letter (May 13, 1774) (D.S.)

to William Forman in New York

item: Letter (May 27, 1774) (D.S.)

to William Forman in New York

item: Letter (Oct. 1, 1774) (D.S.)

to William Forman in Boston

item: Letter (Nov. 14, 1774) (L.S.)

to William Forman in Boston

item: Letter (Dec. 22, 1774) (L.S.)

to William Forman in Boston

item: Letter (Dec. 26, 1774) (A.L.S.)

to William Forman in Boston

item: Accounts (Jan. 5, 1775) (D.S.)
item: Letter (Jan. 26, 1775) (A.L.S.)

to William Forman in Boston

item: Letter (Mar. 1, 1775) (L.S.)

to William Forman in Boston

item: Letter (Mar. 2, 1775) (A.L.S.)

to William Forman in Boston

item: Letter (Aug. 12, 1776) (D.S.)

to John Grant in Staten Island

item: Letter (Jan. 1, 1777) (D.S.)

to John Grant in New York

item: Letter (Apr. 9, 1777) (D.S.)

to Matthew Dixon

item: Statement of Expenditures (Jun. 30, 1776) ( D.S. large manuscript)
item: Statement of Expenditures (Jul. 13, 1793) ( D.S. Large manuscript)
item: Letter (Jun. 11, 1851) (A.L.S.)

Jessie Oakley

item: Letter (Jul. 20, 1758) ( A.L.S. Phot. (neg.) 1 leaf)

James Furnis to Colonel Montresor, Chief Engineer, Albany, New York.

31 Mar. 1953. Loan for reproduction. Dr. O.O. Fisher.

item: Letter (Aug. 30, 1758) ( A.L.S. Phot. (neg.) 2 pages)

James Furnis to Colonel Montresor, Chief Engineer, Fort Edward. Albany New York.

31 Mar. 1953. Loan for reproduction. Dr. O.O. Fisher.

item: (Nov. 18, 1763) ( A.D.S 1 leaf)

Return of Engineer's stores present at Fort Detroit.

10 Jan 1853. $75.00 Edward Berstadt & Sons.

item: Warrant (Mar. 26, 1774) (D.S.)

New York

Biographical Note/Historical Note +/-

Born at Gilbralter, April 6, 1736. A British military engineer, he served in America during the Seven Years' War. During Pontiac's war, 1763, he carried dispatches from Lord Amherst to Major Gladwin, commander at Detroit; in 1765 he went with Bradstreet from Niagara to Detroit, where he improved the defenses. He died in England, June 26, 1799. (blue index cards)

Content Description +/-

Includes a return of engineers' supplies at Detroit in 1763.

Collection Use +/-

Restrictions on Access:

This collection is open for research use.

Administrative Information +/-

Arrangement:

Chronologically

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 wallet

Language of the Finding Aid:

English

Standard:

dacs, aacr2

Subarea:

Burton Historical Collection

Subjects +/-

Subject Terms:

Military engineering.
Military engineers.

Form or Genre Terms:

Correspondence.
Photocopies.

Personal Names:

MontreĢsor, John, 1736-1799