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Miller family
Fonds · 1676-1944, predominant 1804-1889
Consists of records documenting five generations of the Miller family of Halifax and Lunenburg County and related families. The bulk contains correspondence, accounts, and bills relating to the business affairs of Jacob Miller, his son Garret, and his grandsons Garret, Jacob, and Joseph. The records also document the public offices held by the Miller men including their involvement in the Lunenburg County Court of General Sessions and militia and local church. Also contains family letters, deeds, indentures, briefs and other legal records, memo books, journals, scrapbooks and ephemera relating to various members of the Miller family and several generations of related families including Pernette, Allan, Aitkens, Hall, Godard, Mack, Owen, Erad, and Zouberbuhler. Journals kept by William D. Hall describe gold prospecting and mining activities and include mention of the Central Gold Mining Co. Also included are maps of Nova Scotia counties, Bridgewater and the Miller estate property, and Pernette property in Petite Riviere. MG 1 volumes 582-695
Collection · 1702-1917, predominant 1857-1886
Collection consists of Nova Scotia colonial government records, together with British and French imperial records relating to Nova Scotia, and comprises one continuous sequence of numbered volumes that have been arranged into 28 described series. RG 1
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
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
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
Proceedings books
Series forms part of Supreme Court of Nova Scotia in Halifax County fonds and consists of proceedings books that provide the case name, date, and brief notes on court proceedings. Volume 117 provides proceedings of criminal cases only and includes some copies of Commissions of Officers of the Court, with a scale of fees for various officials (1782-1785).