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Pictou Friendly Society fonds
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[1809?] (Creation)
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- Pictou Friendly Society (Pictou County, N.S.)
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8 p. of textual records
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(1809-)
Administrative history
The Pictou Friendly Society was founded in the Town of Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1809 to provide its all-male members with financial help and visits during illness. Funds were available to help defray the expense of burial and to provide a small annual pension to the member's widow and family. Many of the town's leading merchants were founding members.
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From the estate of Judge Patterson.
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Fonds consists of names of sixteen subscribers to the Pictou Friendly Society and twenty-two articles regulating the funds and how they were to be administered.
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Records were donated by Mrs. Lorne Clarke
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A microfilm copy is available at Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management.