07_Carrying_the_mails_1763-1861_p_22-30.pdf

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title	Carrying the Mails, 1763-1861
creator	Prince Edward Island Museum
subject	Island Magazine
subject	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
date	1990
type	Document
format	application/pdf
identifier	vre:islemag-batch2-358
source	27
language	en_US
rights	Please note that this material is being presented for the sole purpose of research and private study. Any other use requires the permission of the copyright holder(s), and questions regarding copyright are the responsibility of the user.

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title	Carrying the Mails, 1763-1861
creator	Prince Edward Island Museum
subject	Island Magazine
subject	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
date	1990
type	Document
format	application/pdf
identifier	vre:islemag-batch2-358
source	27
language	en_US
rights	Please note that this material is being presented for the sole purpose of research and private study. Any other use requires the permission of the copyright holder(s), and questions regarding copyright are the responsibility of the user.