Dobbs, Arthur, 1689-1765
Dobbs, Arthur
Dobbs, Arthur, 1689-....
Arthur Dobbs
VIAF ID: 49578259 ( Personal )
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- 100 0 _ ‡a Arthur Dobbs
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- 100 1 _ ‡a Dobbs, Arthur
- 100 1 _ ‡a Dobbs, Arthur ‡d 1689-1765
- 100 1 _ ‡a Dobbs, Arthur ‡d 1689-1765
- 100 1 _ ‡a Dobbs, Arthur, ‡d 1689-....
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4xx's: Alternate Name Forms (11)
5xx's: Related Names (3)
- 551 _ _ ‡a County Antrim ‡4 ortg ‡4 https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#placeOfBirth
- 510 1 _ ‡a North Carolina. ‡b Governor (1754-1765 : Dobbs)
- 551 _ _ ‡a Town Creek ‡4 orts ‡4 https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#placeOfDeath
Works
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An Account of the countries adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the north-west part of America : containing a description of their lakes and rivers, the nature of the soil and climates, and their methods of commerce, &c., shewing the benefit to be made by settling colonies, and opening a trade in these parts, whereby the French will be deprived in a great measure of their traffick in furs, and the communication between Canada and Mississippi be cut off : with an abstract of Captain Middleton's Journal, and observations upon his behaviour during his voyage and since his return | |
Bio. dir. of American colonial and revolutionary governors 1607-1789, 1980: | |
Considerations on two papers lately published the first called Seasonable remarks, &c., and the other, An essay on trade in general and on that of Ireland in particular. | |
An epistle to the Hon. Arthur Dobbs, Esq., in Europe | |
An essay on the expediency of a union betwixt Britain & Ireland | |
An essay on the trade and improvement of Ireland. By Arthur Dobbs, Esq. | |
A friend in need is a friend in deed, or, A project, at this critical juncture, to gain the nation a hundred thousand pounds per annum from the Dutch, by an Irish whale fishery | |
The Kelsey papers | |
A letter from a Russian sea-officer, to a person of distinction at the court of St. Petersburgh: containing his remarks upon Mr. de L'Isle's chart and memoir, relative to the new discoveries northward and eastward from Kamtschatka. Together with some observations on that letter. | |
Lettre d'un officer de la marine. | |
A new map of part of North America from the latitude of 40 to 68 degrees including the late discoveries made on board the Furnace Bomb Ketch in 1742 and the western rivers & lakes falling into Nelson River in Hudson's Bay as described by Joseph La France, a French Canadese Indian, who travaled thro those countries and lakes for 3 years from 1739 to 1742 | |
Reflections, little to the purpose, on a paper less to the purpose | |
A rejoinder to Mr. Dobb's reply to Captain Middleton in which is expos'd, both his wilful and real ignorance of tides, &c. his Jesuitical prevarications, evasions, falsities, and false reasoning ... in a word, an unparalelled disingenuity, and ... a glaring impudence, are set in a fair light | |
Remarks upon Capt. Middleton's defence wherein his conduct during his late voyage for discovering a passage from Hudson's-Bay to the South-Sea is impartially examin'd, his neglects and omissions in that affair fully pro'd, the falsities and evasions in his defence expos'd, the errors of his charts laid open and his accounts of currents, streights, and rivers, confuted, whereby it will appear, with the highest probability, that there is such a passage as he went in search of : with an appendix of original papers and a map of the in-land and sea-coast of North-America in and about Hudson's Bay | |
A reply to Capt. Middleton's answer ... 1745: | |
Report relating to the finding a North-west passage. | |
A Short narrative and justification of the proceedings of the committee appointed by the Adventurers, to prosecute the discovery of the passage to the western ocean of America and to open and extend the trade, and settle the countries beyond Hudson's Bay, with an appology for their postponing at present their intended application to Parliament : to which are annexed, the report and petitions referred to in the narrative, and the papers prepared to be delivered to the Lords and Commons, upon presenting the petition, as the foundation for a parliamentary enquiry, and the facts they were prepared to support : now laid before the publick, for their future consideration. | |
Some thoughts on the tillage of Ireland : humbly dedicated to the Parliament. To which is prefixed, a letter to the printer, from the Reverend Doctor Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, recommending the following Treatise | |
A thanksgiving sermon : Preach'd October the 9th, 1746. for the happy suppression of the late unnatural rebellion. | |
To Arthur Dobbs Esqr. : this Chart of the Seas, Straits &c. thro' which his Maesty's Sloop Furnace pass'd for discovering a Passage from Hudson's Bay to the south Sea is most humbly dedicated by his most humble and most obedient servant |