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1800-1884 (Creation)
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- Carritt ,Edward, Dr.
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One lined hand-written notebook
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Edward Carritt was born in England in 1800. He received his medical degree from Edinburgh, married Harriet Peacock in 1826, and came to NS that year.He moved to Guysborough in 1842 and practiced medicine there until retiring in 1884. He also served as a Justice of the Peace. He spent his last days in Dartmouth with his daughter.
Custodial history
The donors got it from the home of Mr. Gastle’s parents – Dr. Hugh Gastle and his wife Jean – in Lakefield Ont. They had received it from a friend there, Mr. Charles James Davis, who grew up in Guysborough. Mr. Davis died in 1965 aged 84. It is not known how he came by the book.
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The notebook contains notes on the working of the courts, written in 1853. It appears to be research for Dr. Carritt’s role as a Justice of the Peace
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- Dr. Edward Carritt (Subject)
- Guysborough (Subject)
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Sources
Grant, John. Historic Guysborough. Halifax, 2004.