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              Family papers & genealogy
              Series · 1638-1966, 1770-1860 predominant [copied 1949-1966]
              Part of Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds
              Series forms part of the Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds and consists of records related to various Eastern Shore families and individuals including Duncan Johnson, Hal de Ganges, Ross C. Graves, Joan Scott, Agatha Palmer Ganong, and the Siteman, Dewey, Eisan, Ells, Gerrard, Hartling, Henderson, Johnson, Hilchie, Hill, McCarthy, Beaver, Jamieson, O’ Bryan, Palmer, Peitzch, Richardson, Robson, Shellnutt, Twining, Webber, Smith, Mitchell, Moser, Newcombe, and Stoddard families as well as other Eastern Shore and Pictou County families. Records include lists of settlers, wills, Loyalist claims, vital records, genealogies, petitions, muster rolls, obituaries, cemetery inscriptions, newspaper clippings, school papers, voter lists, correspondence, land records, and other documents. Accession number: 2013.066
              Series · [ca. 1750-1970], [ca. 1940-1968 (copied)]
              Part of Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds
              Series forms part of the Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds and consists of records related to the acquisition, sale, and transfer of land including deeds, grants, indentures, and petitions. Also included are notes regarding Crown Land and wills, correspondence, abstracts, a list of children brought from England and distributed on the Eastern Shore, maps, school trustee and assembly papers. Accession number: 2013.066
              Series · [1783], [ca. 1915-1969]
              Part of Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds
              Series forms part of the Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds and consists of excerpts and clippings from various newspapers including the Family Herald, notes from Pictou County newspapers, and stories taken from various magazines. The majority of the clippings and notes refer to various Eastern Shore families but also include clippings about locations like Halifax and Dartmouth as well as schools, poems, recipes, church and local history, and notes on vessels that shipped along the Eastern Shore. Also includes vital records. In addition, series contains a German pamphlet from 1923 entitled Das Hakenkreuz, a copy of the statement of Fred Gerhardt regarding the destruction of the Potentate by German submarine in 1918, petitions, and correspondence including one love letter to a young Annabel from Dewey McElmon in 1915 which still contains a lock of hair. Accession number: 2013.066
              Fonds · [ca. 1784-1998]
              Fonds consists primarily of documents related to Katherine L. Stoddard’s research and her interest in genealogy, particularly that of her own family. Stoddard’s records include information related to many Eastern Shore families, including the Stoddard and Ritcey families, as well as local history. Fonds also includes correspondence, cookbooks and handwritten recipes, photographs, postcards, maps, certificates, land grants, yearbooks, deeds, and wills. Accession number: 2013.008
              Series · [ca. 1784-1924]
              Part of Katherine L. Stoddard family fonds
              Series forms part of Katherine L. Stoddard fonds and consists of three land deeds including one for land in Hantsport purchased from Charles Cowley Brown and his wife Emma by Robert J. Stoddard, Master Mariner, for six hundred dollars in 1924; one for land in Kings County purchased from George A. and Louise Yeaton by Robert J. Stoddard for one dollar in 1924; and one for land in Horton, King’s County, purchased by Robert J. Stoddard of Musquodoboit Harbour from John L. and Eunice E. Graham for three thousand six hundred dollars in 1923. Series also includes transcripts of a grant for five hundred acres to Thomas Stoddard dated September, 1784. Also includes typed transcripts of memorials written by Michael Eisan to the governor discussing a request for land in Jeddore and a later purchase of land in Ship Harbour c. 1786-1791 as well as another memorial dated 1796, wherein Eisan requests that he be granted permission to take possession of some back lands to attempt to raise grain in order to sustain his family, as he and his neighbors were having difficulty doing so on their current land in Ship Harbour; it being so close to the sea. Another transcript includes a deed for 200 acres on Lot. 20 purchased by Eisan from Joseph Lumb (or Lamb) for nine pounds in 1791. The transcripts also include a rejected petition made by Michael Eisan, Loyalist, for relief due to loss of property in South Carolina. The series also includes transcripts of the will of Thomas Stoddard of Clam Harbour dated 1813, bequeathing his land to his sons Walter Hercules, Thomas Ratchford, George William Sherlock, and Edmund Fanning. Michael Eisan (1730-1833) was the grandfather of Katherine Stoddard’s great grandmother Elizabeth Eisan. Accession number: 2013.008
              Petition of Michael Eisan
              Item · 1785
              Item consists of printed microfilm copies of a petition written by Michael Eisan to the Hon. Thomas [Dundas], received December 29, 1785. The document includes a signed oath stating that Eisan resided at Halifax/ Dartmouth from July 15, 1783 to March 25th, 1784, however, that he was incapable of delivering any request for relief, outlining the claims and losses that he had incurred in South Carolina during the American Revolution, within the allotted amount of time for claims submissions. His reason for not submitting his claim to the Commissioners on time was that he was unable to procure any evidence to substantiate his claims or prove his losses and he believed that there was no point in submitting a relief request without any such evidence. The document also includes government responses to his petition, regarding the events that took place during the dissentions in America and the actions of the Loyalists. Accession number: 2013.015
              Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds
              Fonds · [ca. 1900-1969]
              The fonds consists of records accumulated by Annabel (Siteman) Ells during the course of her research on the area of Ship Harbour and the families who lived there as well as personal records created and accumulated throughout her lifetime. The fonds includes a wide variety of records such as land related documents, wills, Loyalist petitions, census information, court papers, church registers and vital statistics including marriage, birth, and death records; school papers, genealogies, clippings and notes taken from various newspapers and periodicals, photographs and negatives, correspondence, postcards, and diaries. The records within the fonds shed light on the history of Ship Harbour and its families, the work of Annabel Ells, her personal life from a young girl growing up on the Eastern Shore to travelling as a young woman and attending school, entering into various careers, living as an independent woman in the early 20th century, her marriage later in life and her lifelong interest in her Ship Harbour home. http://www.heritagevillage.ca/LCASresources/Annabel_%28Siteman%29_Ells_fonds_Inventory.pdf Accession number 2013.066
              Fonds · 1941, predominant 1954-1970
              Fonds consists of records of the Eastern Shore Board of Trade, District 19 and its members. Records in the fonds are arranged into five series, including correspondence, publications, local research, meeting minutes, and financial and legal records. Accession numbers 2009.037, 2009.038 and 2010.019
              Financial and legal records
              Series forms part of the Eastern Shore Board of Trade, District 19 fonds and consists of records of the financial transactions of the board, including receipts, financial statements and other material. Series also includes a ledger book listing names of board members and payment of membership dues. In addition, series includes a legal document related to the board’s purchase of a property in Lake Charlotte to be used as a recreation center. Series also includes drafts of a petition, a resolution, and a list of signers related to requests for road and bridge repairs. Accession number: 2009.037
              Series · 1969-1981, predominant 1972-1973
              Part of Association for Preservation of the Eastern Shore fonds
              Series forms part of Association for Preservation of the Eastern Shore fonds and consists of records related to the Association’s involvement in the opposition to the federal and provincial governments’ proposal for a Ship Harbour National Park. Most of the Association’s activities from its formation around October 1972 until late 1973 were related to this opposition. Series contains correspondence, meeting minutes, briefs, reports, clippings, notes, newsletters, notices, memorandums, and other material. Series also includes petitions opposing the National Park which were circulated by members of the Committee to Prevent the Proposed Park in October 1972. In addition, series includes a copy of a petition opposing the National Park which was circulated by Aubrey Siteman in 1969.