Carrying the Mails, 1763-1861
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Description
On 9 January 1792, Major Robert
Gray, secretary to Lieutenant
Governor Edmund Fanning, setoutfrom
Charlottetown with several companions,
heading overland to Murray Harbour on
pressing business. He hoped to rendezvous
with the ship Assistance lying at
anchor in Murray Harbour and sail with
her to London. The harbour at Charlottetown
was already frozen fast, and
the aptly named Assistance was until
spring Gray's last chance of a trans- Atlantic
passage from the young colony.
His party's ordeal was chronicled a few
days later in Charlottetown's Royal Gazette
and Miscellany:
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- Title
- Carrying the Mails, 1763-1861
- Creator
- Prince Edward Island Museum
- Subject
- Island Magazine, Prince Edward Island Museum
- Description
- On 9 January 1792, Major Robert Gray, secretary to Lieutenant Governor Edmund Fanning, setoutfrom Charlottetown with several companions, heading overland to Murray Harbour on pressing business. He hoped to rendezvous with the ship Assistance lying at anchor in Murray Harbour and sail with her to London. The harbour at Charlottetown was already frozen fast, and the aptly named Assistance was until spring Gray's last chance of a trans- Atlantic passage from the young colony. His party's ordeal was chronicled a few days later in Charlottetown's Royal Gazette and Miscellany:
- Publisher
- Prince Edward Island Museum
- Contributor
- Date
- 1990
- Type
- Document
- Format
- application/pdf
- Identifier
- vre:islemag-batch2-358
- Source
- 27
- Language
- en_US
- Relation
- Coverage
- Rights
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