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Barry, Hicks family
Fonds · 1786-1876, predominant 1852-1876
Fonds consists of correspondence among Barry and Hicks family members, describing family news and health, business matters, and events in Liverpool, N.S. The fonds contains primarily letters written to Francenia (Hicks) Hamilton from her sister-in-law, Mathilda Hicks, her mother, Margaret Hicks, and husband David Porter Hamilton. Other family members represented in the fonds include John Hicks, Walter M. Hicks, Mary Ellen (Hicks) Doughty, John Thomas Hicks, Robert Barry, Samuel J.W. Barry, William H. Barry, Thomas S. Barry, Charlotte (Barry) Mack, and W.E.C. Barry. MG 1 volumes 90E and 1920
Fonds · 1840-1879
Collection consists of records relating to quarantine of smallpox cases, financial returns and by-laws of local boards of health, reports of the Committee on Transient Paupers and Committee on the Bridewell, correspondence to and from the provincial secretary, warrants to the provincial treasurer, and returns of overseers of the poor to the provincial secretary. Collection also includes accounts for care of the sick and transient poor, returns of the Commissioners of the Poor to the clerk of the legislature, correspondence to and from local boards of health, petitions for relief to the House of Assembly, and accounts of the central board of health. This collection comprises records of local boards of health, the provincial secretary's office, the provincial treasurer, the House of Assembly, and the Commissioners of the Poor. Collection is arranged by subject.
Fonds · 1829-1879
Fonds consists of two proceedings books in which the clerk of the peace recorded the actions of the court between 1829 and 1841 and also from 1861 to the start of elective local government in 1879. RG 34-301
W.H. Chipman and Son fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1842]-1881, predominant 1855-1869
Fonds consists of the firm's correspondence (1855-1869 and undated), bills of lading (1857-1865), invoices and acounts (1851-1868, 1878, 1881), purchase orders (1856, 1860-1867), account book (ca. 1842-1870), memoranda, promissary notes, and other miscellaneous items. MG 3, vol. 1726
Thomas Maher fonds
Fonds · 1856-1881
Fonds consists of records documenting Maher's business activities as a trader in Dover. Includes account books and indexes, 1856-1881; day books, 1876-1881; and fish books, 1868-1876, describing the types of fish being caught along the eastern side of St. Margaret's Bay and the names of fishermen involved in the fishery. MG 1, vol. 6190
Chesley family
Fonds · 1755-1883
Consists of deeds, commissions, receipts, account books, letters, legal records, and probate records of the Chesley family of Annapolis County. The majority of the material was created and accumulated by Maj. Samuel Chesley, his son Capt. Samuel Moore Chesley, and brother Benjamin Chesley, concerning legal cases and the Annapolis County Court, and property transactions. MG 1 volumes 177-180
Fonds · 1869-1884
Collection consists of two ships' log books. The contents of the collection document the voyages of a number of vessels mastered by Capt. Mills and Capt. Robert W. Anderson, including a few voyages to and from Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing details about location (longitude and latitude), winds, course and related remarks. Accession no. 2011-063.
Fonds · 1703-1886
Consists of portions of the Colonial Office records containing information about Nova Scotia through the British colonial period. The collection includes the original correspondence or dispatches (in-letters) of the various colonial governors of Nova Scotia or other senior officials responsible for administering the colonial government, as well as entry books (out-letters) consisting of copies of Colonial Office replies. These are supplemented with various indexes, registers, acts passed by the colonial legislature, Blue Books of Statistics, sessional papers and miscellanea. Collection consists of: Series - Original correspondence, Board of Trade (CO 217) CO
Fonds · 1770-1886
Fonds consists of minute and other record books documenting the proceedings of the court, as well as returns and other documents gathered into files relating to the assessment and collecting of taxes; returns of justices of the peace, sheriffs and other local officials relating to court proceedings, the county jail, and relief of the poor; and other miscellaneous materials. The minutes record the actions of the court in its judicial and governmental capacity, giving information on the outcomes of criminal trials as well as the actions of the court in its capacity as local government. Two volumes of minute books covering the years 1810 to 1820 appear to be final approved versions while draft and other minute books covering the years 1791-1863 also exist, often as annual notebooks bound into larger volumes. Two volumes covering the years 1834 to 1837, which are labelled as Sessions Books, appear to be correspondence and other material relating to proceedings rather than minutes. In contrast, similarly labelled volumes covering the years 1860 to 1885 are the sessions minutes and include the first five years of minutes for the successor Halifax County Council. Parts of the non-bound records, in particular returns to the Provincial Secretary concerning assessments and judicial and other fees collected by local officials, appear to have been added when the 1976 Inventory of Manuscripts was prepared. RG 34 Vol. 312; RG 60 Vol. 1 to 15.
William Norman Rudolf fonds
Fonds · 1853-1886, predominantly 1862-1886
Fonds consists of five volumes used by Rudolf as diaries to record daily events, impressions and community and broader political and social issues of the day in both Nova Scotia and Great Britain. The diaries contain inserts taken from various publications of interest to Rudolf. Fonds also includes a photograph of the Town of Pictou from the the vicinity of Pictou Landing taken in the 1880s. Accession no. 2007-067