Solicitor General suggests rules affecting government, religion (including Jesuits), property and justice, as well as agreements under French regime[2]
With no Quebec "plan of laws" submitted, former attorney general Francis Maseres says "every thing relating to that province seems to be in suspense"[3]
Nearly 60 Quebec City "subscribers" agree to weigh Portugal gold coins received and deduct uniform amount from value of any that have been debased[4]
Dangerous fire spreading from Quebec City seminary is stopped by effectiveness of garrison soldiers, well-supplied "engines" and alert citizens[5]
Soldier of 52nd Regiment warns public not to accommodate his wife, "Eloped[...]and, as I am inform'd, is living with[...]a Soldier in the 60th Regiment"[6]
Musician Guillaume de Vaut-Court of Paris, performing in Upper-Town, retails his compositions of "Simple Counter-point" and music for concerts to hire[7]
Liverpool couple Deborah Cuffy, "negro free woman," and Irishman John Carroll told by magistrates to "take each other in our presence, which they did"[8]
Notice that Black woman named "Thursday" is missing in Halifax, where "her Master" John Rock offers $2 reward plus costs for her return[9]
Quebecker will teach "Small Sword, Cut & Thrust, after the best completest manner," as well as French and "Dancing after the newest and best Mode"[10]
Inuit in London stunned at first, but "admiration increased in proportion" to their understanding of "the use, beauty, and mechanism of what they saw"[13]
"Tumbling over each other in glorious confusion" - George Cartwright plays games with Inuit in Labrador, including threading-the-needle and leapfrog[14]
William Johnson satisfies Mississaugas after they complain about "David Ramsey, an Indian trader," who killed several of their people near Niagara[15]
Detroit commandant Philip Dejean praised for "unwearied endeavours" to bring confessed killer of merchant at Detroit to face justice in Quebec City[16]
"Indian Leaders" retain respect of both Hudson's Bay Company and Indigenous people with displays of influence and bouts of intensive begging[17]
"She built the hut in which we found her" - Resourceful Dogrib woman survives alone for months after escaping Athabascans (Note: "savages" used)[18]
"Had the vanity to think that I could have kept pace" - Snowshoe speedster Samuel Hearne is no match for swiftness of bison running in deep snow[19]
^"Advertisements" (Quebec, June 12, 1772), The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 389 (June 18, 1772), 2nd pg. (See also similar number of Montreal merchants come to like agreement) Accessed 11 July 2022
^"Quebec, August 13" The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 397 (August 13, 1772), 2nd pg. (See also commendation in "Advertisements" (2nd pg.) for carters who brought barrels of water for engines, and reward (2nd pg.) for diligent carter in subsequent fire) Accessed 11 July 2022
^James Adair, "Whereas my Wife Mary Adair" The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 376 (March 19, 1772, Cahier 1), 3rd pg. Accessed 9 July 2022
^John Rock, "Ran away(...)" (Halifax) Nova-Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle (September 1, 1772). (See details about Thursday) Accessed 7 February 2021
^"November 10" The Quebec Gazette, Nomb. 374 (March 5, 1772), 2nd pg. (See also "March 27" report (2nd pg.) that Major (Robert?) Rogers will be sent "in pursuit of the northwest passage") Accessed 9 July 2022
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