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Reverend Angus MacAulay fonds : [1783-1827]

  • CA PCA Acc3051
  • Fonds
  • 1783-1827

The fonds consists of correspondence and documents of Angus MacAulay. A certification dated 1783 documents his performance at Marischal College in Aberdeen. Correspondence between MacAulay and Alexander MacDonald (1789-1791) deals with MacAulay's appointment as factor and commissioner to MacDonald and business matters thereafter. Correspondence with Lord Selkirk (1794-1803) relays information about MacAulay's lot of land in Belfast. Other correspondence consists of requests made by MacAulay to the war office regarding payments and an allowance for his family (1795-1827).

MacAulay, Angus

Thomas Halliday fonds : 1815-1818

  • CA PCA Acc2900
  • Fonds
  • 1815-1818; Photocopied 1976

This fonds consists of three letters relating to Thomas Halliday and his emigration to Prince Edward Island. The first letter, dated 28 October 1815, from Thomas Halliday to the Earl of Selkirk relays the difficulties Halliday encountered upon arriving on Prince Edward Island in that he did not receive the grant of land, located near present day Belfast, promised to him by Selkirk. The remaining letters, dated 4 July 1818, are written by the Earl of Selkirk who attempts to address the problem and are addressed to Thomas Halliday and to William Johnston, Selkirk's agent.

Halliday, Thomas

Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk fonds

  • CA PCA Acc2690
  • Fonds
  • 1803

The fonds consists of six original letters written by Thomas Douglas to Reverend Angus McAulay, the Earl of Selkirk's representative in Prince Edward Island, in 1803. The first letter, dated in March of that year, was addressed from Dumfries, Scotland, and the letters that follow were written from Charlottetown. All of the correspondence concerns the settlement of the Belfast area. Also included in the fonds are photocopies and typed transcripts of the letters, as well as a print of a Jackdaw portrait of Lord Selkirk, taken from an unidentified published document, [before 1970].

Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, Earl of