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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 Pichon fonds
Fonds · 1760
Fonds consists of the history of Cape Breton by Pichon contained in five letters. MG 2.9
Fonds · 1767-1768
Collection consists of the original grant listing the grantees of the proposed 20,000 acre Philadelphia Township which was to abut Partridge Island in the vicinity of present day Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. It also includes the articles of incorporation for the group in Philadelphia who intended to create the township. Accession 2011-030
Anthony Thickpenny fonds
Fonds · 1772
Fonds consists of a survey of islands in Mahone Bay in 1772, identifying the properties of Anthony Thickpenny and Edward Thomas. MBMS-44
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.
John Bonyman fonds
Fonds · 1779-1780
Fonds consists of one double entry ledger recording sales of general sundries related to Bonyman's business in Scotland.
Fonds · 1782
Printed and bound account book for tracking tolls collected at Pigot’s Farm Gate, Hants County, along the Windsor to Halifax Road. John Fielden recorded the month, day and names of people travelling through the toll gate, the number and kinds of livestock accompanying them and how much they paid. The book is only partially filled and arranged in chronological order. The first entry is dated August 13, 1782 and the last entry is October 20, 1782. 2015-021
Fonds · 1782
Item is a handwritten certificate awarding John Frederick Traugott Gschwind with an Order of Military Merit (Orden pour la Vertu Militaire) from the Hessian Army signed by Frantz Carl Erdman von Seitz. It is written in French and German, with a red wax seal attached. On the back is written “Discharge from the Hessian --?-- 1st June 1782”. Provides additional documentation on the presence of the Hessian Army in Halifax after the American Revolutionary War.
Alexander Houston
Fonds · 1778-1788
Fonds consists of a bound diary in two sections. The first section was writen from 7 January 1778 to September 1779 while Houston was in New York. It recounts details of the weather, arrivals and departures of ships, troop movements, and various battles of the American rebels and their French allies against the British during the Revolutionary War. The second section of the diary was written in Shelburne, Nova Scotia and covers the period from 18 March to 30 May 1788. It details the weather, crop plantings and failures, ice conditions, hauling seaweed, dealing with the black flies, work around the house and other daily events. It is not certain that both portions of the diary were written by Alexander Houston because of differences in the handwriting. MG 1 volume 483C
Ebenezer Cutler fonds
Fonds · 1790-1793
Fonds consists of day book of Cutler store. Accession 97.846