Minute of condition between Sir William Alexander and Duncan Forbes, Provost of Inverness and Laird of Culloden, signed by Alexander and Forbes, and witnessed by Morray, Steuart, Ross, Donypaice, Phelps, Strachan, Shaw, Marshall, Rose, Philip, and Sinclarr

• Main Authors: Sir William Alexander, Duncan Forbes
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Nova Scotia History 1603-1713; Cape Breton Island (N.S.) > History; Breton Island; Duff; Forbes; Laird; Morse; New Plymouth; morse
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/15750

The document, endorsed March 17th, 1625, relates to "the countrie of New Scotland in America" and bears close relation to Cape Breton.Morse purchased the documents in April, 1932 and March, 1934 from Bernard Quaritch Limited. The minute of condition came from the collection of Major Hugh Robert Duff of Muirtown. The document was donated to Dalhousie University in the 1930s. A subsidiary document in original form relating to New Plymouth can also be found in Folder MS-6-2. The manuscript has been reproduced in facsimile and transcribed in Volume I of Acadiensia Nova, by William Inglis Morse (1935).