Subseries forms part of Government at Halifax series and consists of records relating generally to civil administration. Includes abstracts from the registrar's office at Horton (Kentville), with names of parties to deeds and conveyances and dates and descriptions of land conveyed, 8 April 1765-5 February 1777 (same volume, reversed, contains accounts of money received or paid by officials in various counties, possibly in connection with the transfer or granting of land, 24 February 1808-3 April 1817); a register of vessels entering the port of Halifax, 7 July 1778-15 November 1781, giving names of masters and crew lists (volume also contains memoranda of petitions for land grants and actions taken regarding them, 14 December 1764-2 July 1765); registers of warrants drawn on the Treasurer, 1759-1805 (the years 1777-1799 not covered); a register of stocks and stockholders comprising the Treasurer's account book of the old funded debt of the province, 1 January 1789-21 September 1797; and registers of bonds given by persons holding public office, 5 October 1805-2 March 1863; the years 1843 to 1851 are not covered (same volume, in reverse, contains extracts from Royal Instructions relating to the future disposal of land, February 1774-February 1776).
Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of memoranda, memorials, correspondence, orders in council, petitions and instructions on retaining possession of Acadia; documents relating to Sir William Alexander's claim to Nova Scotia, Anglo-French disputes over Acadia, restoration of Acadia to the French (1667-1670) and the Treaty of Ryswick (1697); and documents relating chiefly to Sir William Temple's and Colonel William Crowne's interests in Nova Scotia in the second half of the seventeenth century.
Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of records organized thematically. Includes secret correspondence relating to the siege and capture of Fort Beausejour, 1753-1755; records of crown prosecutions for treason, sedition, murder and sabbath-breaking, 1749-1832; parliamentary estimates for the civil and military establishments of Nova Scotia, 1751-1834; printed acts of Parliament relating to Nova Scotia, 1747-1822; royal proclamations and proclamations by the lords justices and the governors of Nova Scotia, 1748-1823; royal warrants, mandamus (commands) and commissions under the royal sign manual (monarch's signature and seal), 1753-1840; royal instructions to governors of Nova Scotia, as well as commissions and orders in Council, 1729-1867; royal instructions concerning the granting of land in Nova Scotia, 1807, with accounts of sales of crown lands, 1835-1843; imperial orders in Council, 1752-1852; journal and letters of Colonel John Winslow, kept during the siege of Fort Beausejour and while engaged in expelling the Acadians from Grand Pre, 1755; records relating to the settlement and establishment of the New England Planter townships after the expulsion of the Acadians, as well as some records relating to Loyalist settlement, 1759-1784; nominal lists of proprietors of the New England Planter townships, 1760-1761; Supreme Court records relating to the partition of New England Planter and Scots-Irish townships, 1761-1799; Onslow township book, 1761-1855; record book relating to the partition of Horton Township, 1761; selections from Andrew Brown's papers relating to the Acadians and their removal from Nova Scotia, 1754-1777; records relating to the second siege of Louisbourg, the siege of Quebec, the expelled Acadians, and the Canadians after the fall of Quebec, 1758-1790; Massachusetts public records relating to the attempt to involve Nova Scotia in the American rebellion, 1775-1782; military correspondence relating to Nova Scotia and Canada, 1745-1818, mainly dealing with the period of the American Revolution, Colonel Joseph Gorham's defence of Fort Cumberland in 1776, general officers commanding in Nova Scotia, 1783, and the American the War of 1812; selected documents from the Sir Frederick Haldimand papers consisting of military correspondence relating to the American Revolution and the Loyalist emigration, 1761-1789; selected documents from the Dorchester (Sir Guy Carleton) papers relating chiefly to Loyalist emigration to and settlement in greater Nova Scotia, 1774-1783; register of grantees of Preston township, 1784-1787; register of grantees of land in Nova Scotia, 1763-1811; register of grantees of Shelburne township and district, 1783, 1790-1796; register of grantees and escheatees in Preston township, 1810-1813; "Land book" containing descriptions of tracts of land granted, 1760-1767; abstracts of sales made by order of the Court of Vice-Admiralty, 1811-1816; muster rolls of Loyalist and military settlers, May-September 1784; register of recruits inspected at Niagara (Canada West) for the Foreign Legion, etc., June-August, 1855; record book of the court of escheats and forfeitures, 1770-1839; records relating to the casual and territorial revenues (from crown lands), 1826-1840, principally while these revenues were administered by the crown; journal of Titus Smith's tour of Nova Scotia, 1802; Smith's survey field book (western Nova Scotia), 1806; judges' lists of persons eligible to serve as sheriffs, 1808-1831; records documenting the division and boundaries of counties and districts and surveys of them, 1819-1826; jail returns, 1829-1836; records relating to the settlement of Lunenburg, 1751-1799, 1828, and the centenary of its founding, 1853; returns used in compiling the 'Blue books' sent to England with particulars as to officials and their dates of appointment, revenue raised, etc., 1829-1837; reports from various persons in Nova Scotia replying to printed queries prepared by the Colonial Land and Emigration Commission in London with a view to gathering information for persons wanting to emigrate, 1840-1841; correspondence between the lieutenant governors of N.S. and the British minister at Washington, with supporting documents, 1798-1864, and with the French governor of St-Pierre concerning fisheries, 1846-1850; correspondence between the lieutenant governor of N.S. and those of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Canada, the West Indies and Bermuda and admirals commanding on the North American station, with supporting documents,1816-1862; Surveyor-general's letter books, 1783-1825, and abstract of reports on land grants submitted to the surveyor-general of the king's woods, 1784-1807.
Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of documents selected from the records of the upper house of Nova Scotia's formerly bicameral legislature. Includes petitions, memorials, governor's speeches, addresses and messages, resolutions, protests, reports, returns, estimates, records relating to highways and papers sent up from the House of Assembly.
Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of documents selected from the records of the lower house of Nova Scotia's now unicameral legislature. Includes petitions, memorials, governor's speeches and addresses in reply, messages, resolutions, protests, reports, returns, estimates etc. relating to highways, and documents sent down from the Legislative Council.
Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to schools and school lands in Nova Scotia. Includes school returns, 1813-1840, and a petition from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 31 July 1850, containing a complete history of school lands in Nova Scotia, 1749-1850 (volume 438, document 58).
Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records Collection and consists of records relating to the government's humane establishment (life-saving station) on Sable Island and log books of the provincial revenue schooner Daring running between Sable Island and Halifax, August 1852-August 1862.
Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of records relating to the first British settlements on the Saint John River and other parts of New Brunswick; also to laying out and building the town of Saint John (formerly Parrtown), 1783-1785.
Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to the construction, maintenance and operations of early railways in Nova Scotia. Includes accounts of expenditure, Nova Scotia Railway, January 1856-September 1857.
Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of records kept by the receiver general of quit rents in Nova Scotia.
Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of provincial treasurer's accounts. Includes a volume of accounts of impost, excise and lighthouse duties and fees, 1776-1780.
Subseries forms part of Government at Halifax series and consists of entry-books of letters from the provincial secretary and deputy provincial secretary chiefly to officials within the province. Includes letters to the county boards of land commissioners and officers of HM Customs. Letters of the years 1819 and 1820 not extant.
Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of mainly of records relating to the government of Cape Breton as a colony separate from Nova Scotia, 1784-1820. Includes dispatches from the secretary of state to the lieutenant governor of Cape Breton; minutes of HM Council; duplicate or draft minutes of Council, minutes of the English Privy Council, royal warrants, petitions and memorials; correspondence of Lieutenant Governors DesBarres, Macarmick and others, copies of Council minutes (October 1787-October 1788), and a description of the Island of Cape Breton and its dependencies [1787?]; imperial orders in Council, royal instructions, parliamentary estimates and grants for the civil establishment, census returns and acts of parliament relating to Cape Breton; petitions, memorials, addresses, letters, depositions as to complaints, judicial proceedings, drafts of acts, lists of ordinances, records of escheat, road appropriations and tickets of location for land; and letter-book copies of letters from the provincial secretary (Sir Rupert D. George) to officials and others in Cape Breton, chiefly relating to land grants.
Forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of records relating to the Nova Scotia Militia and Military telegraphy.
Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of manuscript documents of Nova Scotia, 1748-1870, a volume of transcripts from the Andrew Brown papers in the British Library (Volume 284), and a "ship expense book" containing accounts for outfitting four vessels employed on Government service from March 1777 to July 1780 (Volume 285). The Manuscript Documents consist of selections made by the commissioner of public records from files in the offices of the provincial secretary, treasurer, surveyor-general and commissioner of public works. They include records relating to agriculture, fisheries, shipping, prize courts, education (grammar schools and county academies), post offices, Indians, Blacks, voters' lists, the funded debt, customs and excise, revenue, immigration, grants of land, division of counties, public works - roads, bridges, railways, canals, harbours, wharves, lighthouses, and penitentiaries and jails; and records relating to Pictou Academy, 1829-1833 (Volume 282).
Forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of minutes of the Governor and Council meeting in their executive capacity. Includes minutes relating to the granting of land, May 1761-September 1763; minutes of the council of war, July-August 1762 (Volume 188A); Orders in Council relating to petitions for the granting of land, December 1846-January 1848; and minutes, orders and proceedings relative to the sale of intestate estates, 1761-1781 and 1826-1842.
Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to mines (coal, gold, iron) and minerals (gold). Includes claims for mining leases, 1861-1865 and plans and surveys of mining areas in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, surveyed or granted between 1859 and 1863.
Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to the administration of Mi'kmaw affairs in Nova Scotia. Includes Joseph Howe's letter book as commissioner for Indian Affairs, 1841-1843.
Subseries forms part of Government at Halifax series and consists of transcribed dispatches from Lieutenant Governors Wentworth, Prevost and Sherbrooke to the secretary of state, 2 January 1808-13 July 1813.
Subseries forms part of Government at Halifax series and consists of letter books containing office copies of dispatches from the lieutenant governors of Nova Scotia to the secretary of state (Great Britain) and, after Confederation, to the governor general or secretary of state (Canada).
Subseries forms part of Government at Halifax series and consists of entry-books containing dispatches and letters relating to the Acadian French inhabitants; correspondence with governors of other provinces and the French governors at Louisbourg; letters to Sir Jeffrey Amherst, commander-in-chief of the British Army in North America, and to the governors of neighbouring provinces, relating to the Seven Years' War in North America; and letters from Governor Parr and Secretary Bulkeley to officials within the province and elsewhere.
Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to the University of King's College, especially its establishment, incorporation and proposed union with Dalhousie University in 1823-1824 and 1829-1836.
Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records of the Supreme Court, Court of Chancery, County Court/Inferior Court of Common Pleas and Court of Vice-Admiralty. The Admiralty court records include letters of agency, 1776-1821; proceedings, 1749-1813; and lists of vessels captured, 1793-1818.
Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of official minutes of His Majesty's Council meeting in their legislative capacity as the upper house of Nova Scotia's bicameral (until 1928) legislature.
Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of original documents, copies of documents, and lists, indexes and calendars of documents. Includes a memorial (ca. 1748) on the preservation of Nova Scotia by William Bollan, agent for the province of Massachusetts Bay, addressed to Secretary of State the Duke of Bedford; a five-part catalogue of manuscript documents arranged under the direction of T.B. Akins, 1861; Akins's transcription of the "Mess Book" (passenger list of settlers who came to Chebucto with Governor Cornwalllis in June 1749); some 35 miscellaneous documents, 1744-1852, collected by Akins but never arranged or described (includes letters of General Amherst to Governor Lawrence, and of Colonel Mascarene from Annapolis Royal); a copy of Beamish Murdoch's History of Nova-Scotia, or Acadie annotated by William John Stirling; some 62 miscellaneous documents, 1751-1836, collected by Akins but never calendared (list accompanying); a collection of autographs of various Nova Scotia governors and officials; carbon copies of typewritten transcripts of mould-infested documents elsewhere in RG 1; an index to the secretary of state's dispatches, 1750-1845, prepared by T.B. Akins; a manuscript book written in Mi'kmaq; indexes to the journals of the House of Assembly, 1802-1826; rough copies of the minutes of Council, 1804-1815; and rules and orders of the House of Assembly, 1783-1821 (same book, in reverse, contains clerk and speaker's letter-book, 1819-1845).