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Jonathan Belcher and family
Fonds · 1727-1914, predominant 1753-1763
Consists of correspondence and other records created and accumulated by Chief Justice Jonathan Belcher and his family. The majority contains letters written between Belcher, his father Governor Belcher, and his sister Sarah Lyde. Other correspondents are relatives including cousins James and William Belcher in Europe, friends, and political acquaintances. Letters discuss family news, health, financial affairs, property transactions, Belcher's appointment as chief justice, and other public affairs. Most of the more recent correspondence is addressed to Rev. Gilbert E. Belcher and concerns a biography of Jonathan Belcher. Other records include: Belcher's notebooks kept as a law student at Middle Temple; legal notes, addresses, minutes, and reports accumulated by Belcher, some of which relate to Acadians; probate and legal records, newspaper clippings, and ephemera concerning various Belcher family members; drawings of coat of arms; and reproductive prints of Jonathan and Abigail Belcher. MG 1 volume 1738
Edward Howe family
Fonds · 1730-1867
Consists of correspondence and other records created and accumulated by four generations of the How(e) family of Guysborough and Annapolis Counties. The majority of the material concerns Alexander Burgoyne Howe and includes letters written to and from son Richard Howe, 1818-1864, father Alexander Howe, 1804-1812; and mother Helen (McKellar) Howe, 1798-1823; and other family, friends and associates. Also contains correspondence between other Howe family members including a few early letters from Edward How to wife Mary. Letters discuss personal, family and community news, education and travel experiences, and military and naval affairs at home and abroad. Also includes certificates and appointments; copies and originals of letters, Council minutes, statements, and other items relating to Mary How's widows pension claim; some genealogical notes and charts; and a sketched plan of Canso settlement, 1739. Other family members represented include John Oliver Howe, Richard Uniacke Howe, Deborah Cottnam, Grizelda Cottnam, and the related Tonge family. MG 1 volumes 472-474a
Easson family
Fonds · 1734-1894, 1924
Consists of records documenting business and personal activities of four generations of the Easson family. Contains correspondence, invoices, receipts, account statements, promissory notes, land conveyances, bills of exchange, licences, survey plans, and other material relating to commercial transactions between Annapolis Royal, New England, Halifax, and Louisbourg; shipping in the 1700s including an incident involving a vessel at Tatamagouche; relations between the French and the Mi'kmaq; mill-work; maintenance of aboiteaux and dykes; local government; and social life and customs of Annapolis Royal. Family members represented include John Easson (1715-1790); son David (1748-1790) and his wife Elizabeth (ca.1750-1841); three of their eight children: David (1773-1812) and David's wife Zeruiah (ca.1790-1845), Thomas (1784-ca.1862), and Alexander (1786-1862); and three of Alexander's children: Deborah (1816-1888), Caroline (1822-1885), and David Stuart Easson (1823-1883). Also includes records of Thomas Prior, a free Black (previously enslaved), who was a neighbour of David Easson (1773-1812). MG 1 volume 3478
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.
Maps
Series · ca. 1740-1780
Part of Robert Kim Stevens fonds
Series forms part of Robert Kim Stevens fonds and consists of one early Italian map of Acadia, Ile Royale and the surrounding area including Ile St. Jean. The map was likely drawn by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin, a French-born hydrographer and geographer who produced many maps of Canada and other French territories in North America and was chief cartographer of the French Navy in 1721 and later Official Hydrographer of the King. 2013.026
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