1722 in Canada explained
Events from the year 1722 in Canada.
Incumbents
Louis XV[1]
George I[2]
Governors
Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
John Doucett
Samuel Gledhill
Events
- The Tuscarora become the sixth tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy.
- Haudenosee League admits Tuscarora as 6th Nation. The refugee band was accepted according to the terms of the League Constitution. No other Native Nations had such a provision as this, other alliances and "confederations" were all temporary and informal.
Births
Historical documents
"[T]o gain the Indians[...]is to sell them no rum, nor to chett them in[...]trade, and to lett them know [we] will be their master."[3]
Haudenosaunee urge French not to regarrison their village near Montreal because soldiers make women unsafe and youth disruptive[4]
Abenaki at Nanrantsouak defer to Jesuit missionary in religion, council and relations with New Englanders (Note: "savages" used)[5]
Passenger reports capture with others on sloop from Annapolis Royal by French-allied Indigenous men at Passamaquoddy[6]
Gov. Shute declares war on "our Eastern Indians" who kill settlers, as Gov. Vaudreuil admits supporting attacks on vessels[7]
New York requests garrisons on Indigenous land to extend frontier to Great Lakes for trade strategy spanning Mississippi to St. Lawrence[8]
New York's expanding influence on Lake Ontario approved of, though building Niagara fort needs "consent of the Indian Proprietors"[9]
Though "flourishing state of" Canso fishery would draw settlers, survey delay prevents Nova Scotia governor from granting land[10]
Several forts needed for security of Nova Scotia, most immediately at Canso, where French dispute British "sole right" to fishery[11]
Nova Scotia leaders report attacks on British ships and residents, with hostage-taking by both sides[12]
New York Assembly strengthens law against "the selling of Indian goods to the French," which does most to increase French power[13]
Commodore in Newfoundland must intervene when New Englanders "entice and carry away handycraftmen, seamen and fishermen"[14]
"[O]ther men[...]run away with my works" - Mariner complains about someone preempting him with Nova Scotia map based on his data[15]
Notes and References
- Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
- Gibbs, G. C. (September 2004; online edn, January 2006) "George I (1660–1727)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, . Retrieved 30 July 2007 (subscription required).
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol33/pp24-36 68 i Letter of Capt. Cyprian Southack
- "Decree of the Royal Council: The Missionaries of Sault St. Louis, 1722," The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. LXVII. Accessed 22 February 2021 http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_67.html (scroll down to "Page 71")
- Letter of Sébastien Rasles (October 15, 1722), The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. LXVII. Accessed 22 February 2021 http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_67.html (scroll down to "Page 83")
- https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000000480287&view=1up&seq=84 "Boston, June 25"
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol33/pp99-117 "242 Governor Shute to the Council of Trade and Plantations"
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol33/pp1-13 28 Letter of Adjutant Archibald Kennedy
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol33/pp79-99 171 Council of Trade and Plantations to Governor Burnet
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol33/pp56-68 "134 Council of Trade and Plantations to Lord Carteret"
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol33/pp68-79 "156 Council of Trade and Plantations to Lord Carteret"
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol33/pp79-99 "205 Lt. Governor Doucett to the Council of Trade and Plantations"
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol33/pp177-196 "Governor Burnet to the Council of Trade and Plantations"
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol33/pp36-56 "117 Bryan Wheelock, acting Secretary to the Council of Trade, to Mr. West"
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol33/pp1-13 5 Letter of Capt. Cyprian Southack
