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Robert Kim Stevens fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1972]-[ca. 2002]
Fonds consists of records of the activities of Robert Kim Stevens. Records were created and accumulated between about 1972 and 2003. Fonds is arranged into five series: correspondence, research material and publications, family files,maps, and drawings. Accession number 2003.010.
The Pullen Map Collection
Collection · [ca. 1740] - [1851]
Collection contains fourteen maps and charts and one illustration. The materials were collected over many years by Hugh Francis Pullen. MS-2-756
Carte de L'Isle Royale 1744
Item · 1744
Item is a hand-coloured map of Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island). Place names are in French as well as scale (Eschelles) and coordinate information. MAP 711
Jacob Bailey
Fonds · 1748-[183-], predominant 1753-1788
Consists of correspondence, 1753-1830, letter books, 1748-1802, and diaries, 1753-1783, kept by Rev. Bailey documenting his family life, ministerial activities in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, and experiences of a Loyalist refugee. Correspondence includes letters from family, acquaintances, and colleagues in the United States, England, and Nova Scotia, including several written by Rev. Joshua Weeks, Anglican minister at Marblehead, Mass. and later at Halifax. Records also document the personal experiences and views of the American Revolution and attitudes of Loyalists, difficulties surrounding an appointment to the Annapolis Royal Garrison chaplaincy by a non-resident, Joshua Weeks, and controversies over the election for Annapolis County in 1785 and appointment of a bishop in 1787. Fonds also contains Bailey's numerous unpublished and published writings, including manuscripts of Jack Ramble, a novel "The Flower of the Wilderness", "History of New England", "Contested Annapolis County Election", draft chapters of other novels (incomplete), several poems, and a lengthy description of his travels through Nova Scotia and its people, geography, agriculture, etc; sermons and notes on religion and history; school notebooks used by Bailey when he was teaching; a book of poems by Charles Bailey, ca. 1830s; and other miscellaneous items. MG 1 volumes 91-104
John Gorham
Fonds · 1748-1750
Consists of a single volume used as a waste or note book in which Gorham recorded, for the most part, financial transactions. In places the book displays some evidence that entries were later copied to ledger books recording the accounts of his ventures and pay of his men and many entries are about payments on accounts rather than direct cash transactions. The book covers activities during the period 1747 to 1750 and includes lists of expenses for recruiting, equipping and provisioning his company of rangers, lists of expenses for the upkeep and provisioning of several ships including the sloop Diligence and the schooners Warren and Anson. For the most part the volume documents the issuance of provisions and supplies to his men recording the distribution of food, clothing and to a lesser extent equipment and goods. Some entries record in the French language transactions with Acadians at Pizaquid (now Windsor, NS) for the provision of fresh meat and goods. Entries for wages paid, sometimes with the signed or marked receipts of his men appear throughout the book. The start of the book contains many entries related to his establishment on Sable Island, some entered retrospectively from 1747, and other island entries are scattered across the volume. Entries generally record where the activity was happening be it Annapolis Royal, Chebucto (now Halifax,NS), Minas or Boston (MA, USA). The volume also includes copies of a few letters. One in particular to a Mr Owles, speaks to the recruitment of rangers, the size of companies, some conditions of service and what happens in a peace. Also included in the volume is a crude manuscript map showing houses and names of some families, presumably along a portion of Cape Breton Island, NS – from Cape 'Shebnacada' (Shenacadie) which is a settlement located on the south end of St. Andrew’s Channel to past 'Grand Ance' (Grande Anse) which is on the north side of Lennox Passage. The volume ends with a description by Gorham in a two page entry of a skirmish with Mi'kmaq encountered by his sloop Diligence while sailing along the coastline in August of 1748 from 'Port Mahoan'(Mahone Bay) to 'Cape Porpicom'. (Portapique, Colchester County or Pubnico have been suggested as possible contemporary locations for "Porpicom".) 2013-014
Thomas B. Akins fonds
Fonds · 1749-1891, predominant 1858-1891
Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by Akins, documenting his career and his research activities. Includes journals, correspondence, reports, and lists of historical manuscripts relating to the records commission of Nova Scotia; essays, notes, and correspondence on the early history of Halifax and Nova Scotia; extracts of original letters, biographies, personal correspondence and diary; obituaries; books relating to British North America; photographs of Akins and his house in Falmouth, built in 1863, and a photograph album he assembled in 1869 entitled, "Persons connected with the Dominion of Canada." MG 1 volumes 7-8, 1504; Graphic 31-1-1, 60.1.
Collection · 1749-2005
The Eastern Shore Archives has collected a variety of cartographic materials produced by a number of different cartographers, government departments, and businesses. These materials were accumulated over time by the archives from various sources as opposed to being generated by a single creator. Collection consists primarily of maps of Nova Scotia and various areas along Nova Scotia’s Eastern shore. They vary from nautical maps to topographical maps, to land grant and Crown Land maps, to geological surveys. Some include illustrations, descriptions, and directories. Accession numbers: 2003.026, 2003.087, 2005.023, 2012.005, 2013.042, 2013.043, 2013.044
Fonds · 1749-1891
Fonds consists of 2 series: Case files and Official records of proceedings and other material. The Court dealt with prizes in time of war, as well as ordinary and normal marine causes in times of peace or war.