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Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of a 372-page index to crown land grants, 1718-1765. Index divided into five sections, each section having its own alphabetical arrangement, with names in chronological order: 1718-1749 (page 6), 1759-1760 (page 54), 1759-1763 (page 114), 1761-1763 (page 170) and 1763-1765 (page 222). Gives grantee's name, number of acres and district, date of grant and page in register.

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of records relating to Black immigration and settlement in Nova Scotia from the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783 to the final emancipation of slaves in 1838.

Subseries forms part of Government at Halifax series and consists of orders and accounts of sloops of war at Halifax; includes orders, clearance papers and accounts of disbursements in connection with war vessels employed by Governor Edward Cornwallis (1749-1752), and his successors.

Is a volume of extracts from a document among the Dorchester (British Headquarters) papers, formerly in the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Includes the nominal roll of Black refugees registered and certified after having been inspected by the commissioners appointed by General Sir Guy Carleton (commander-in-chief of the British Army in America) on board the vessels in which they were embarked, previous to their sailing from New York for Nova Scotia between 23 April and 30 November 1783.

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of lists, indexes and registers of documents, most of which are elsewhere in RG 1. Includes five catalogues prepared for office use: volumes 466 (1807), 466½; (ca. 1820-1834), 467 (1835), 467½; (1828) and 467¾; (1864); and two prepared by the Commissioner of Public Records: volumes 470-471. Volume 470 consists of calendars of thirty-eight volumes of public records: 334-338, 342, 344, 346-350, 354-355, 359, 361, 379, 385, 388, 409, 411-413, 419-422, 424, 426, 430-431, 433-434, 439-441 and 458-459. Volume 471 is a calendar of transcripts of documents (1654-1711) relating to the Acadians and received by the government of New Brunswick from the Ministry of Marine in Paris; translated into English and transcribed under the direction of James Hannay of Saint John.

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of Nova Scotia population returns (both statistical and nominal), 1767-1860; assessment rolls (poll or capitation tax), mainly 1790-1796; and returns of livestock, 1798-1817. No pre-1838 census, nor the 1851 census, survives intact. Includes, as volume 454, Report of the Secretary of the Board of Statistics on the Census of Nova Scotia, 1861 (Halifax: Queen's Printer, 1862), 298 pages.

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to the Church of England (Anglican) in Nova Scotia, the Church of Scotland, school lands and glebes and the University of King's College. Includes register of lieutenant governor's inductions of Church of England clergy into parishes in Nova Scotia, 1852-1873 and contemporaneous copies of government correspondence and other printed and manuscript documents relating to the Church of England in the colonies, 1855-1865.

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of records relating to the town (1749-1841) and city (from 1841) of Halifax. Includes letters, memorials, petitions, accounts and records relating to lands, streets, public buildings, military property, companies, officials, police, bridewell and poorhouse (also Shubenacadie Canal papers, 1797-1858); the 1752 census; and reports of monthly meetings and visitations by the commissioners of the provincial penitentiary board to the Halifax city prison (Rockhead), 1844-1852.

Subseries forms part of Government at Halifax series and consists of registers of commissions, licences, orders, proclamations, warrants and pardons issued by the governors and lieutenant governors of Nova Scotia, 14 July 1749-5 March 1868. The commission books include commissions issued to all government officials: higher officers as well as justices of the peace, militia officers, excise officers and privateersmen (letters of marque). The licence and order books include orders to civil officials, military officers (in earlier years) and commanders of provincial vessels; instructions for proclamations, general warrants, death warrants, reprieves, pardons and the disposal of the corpses of suicides; licences to marry, teach school, keep taverns, trade with Indians and import goods; and leaves of absence, treaties with Indians and writs for election. Apparently, after 1796, various licences, orders, etc. were entered in the Commission books, properly so called. Volume 176&189; also contains records relating to the Shubenacadie Canal arbitration and award, 25 November and 30 December 1871.

Subseries forms part of Government at Halifax series and consists of five volumes of dispatches from the lords of trade and plantations and secretaries of state to the governors and lieutenant-governors of Nova Scotia. Subseries also includes calendar.

Subseries forms part of Government at Halifax series and consists of three volumes of transcripts of official dispatches from the governors and lieutenant-governors of Nova Scotia to the lords of trade and plantations. Series is accompanied by calendar.

Subseries forms part of Government at Halifax series and consists of four letter books of contemporaneous Halifax office copies and five volumes of transcripts of official dispatches from the governors and lieutenant governors of Nova Scotia to the secretary of state, 22 June 1749-21 December 1794.

Subseries forms part of Government at Halifax series and consists of dispatches from the secretary of state to the lieutenant governor.

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of two volumes of transcripts of records relating to Acadians under British colonial government at Annapolis Royal, then Halifax.

Subseries forms part of Government at Halifax series and consists of contemporaneous copies of dispatches from the secretary of state to the lieutenant governor, 30 September 1823-31 December 1840.

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records of firewards and fire protection companies in Halifax. Includes minutes of meetings of firewards (fire wardens), 1804-1853; minute-books and other records of the Union [Fire] Engine Company, 1789-1807, 1826-1861; and the Union Fire Protection Company, 1861-1917; records of the Hand-in-Hand Fire Company, 1802-1821; and records of the Axe Fire Company, 1813-1861.

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of copies of transcripts of records relating to Acadia while under the government of France. The first and second volumes consist chiefly of letters from the French governors and commandants to the minister of marine at Paris. The third is a supplemental volume, including correspondence of the priests in Acadia with the authorities at Quebec.

Subseries forms part of Government at Halifax series and consists of transcribed dispatches from the Board of Trade to the governor of Nova Scotia, 1 August 1749-19 June 1752.

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of records relating to the government of Nova Scotia, mainly after the transfer of the capital from Annapolis Royal to Halifax in July 1749 until Confederation in July 1867.

Subseries forms part of Government at Halifax series and consists of contemporaneous copies of dispatches and letters from John Wentworth, last royal governor of new Hampshire, to various officials.

contemporaneous copies of John Wentworth's letters to the secretary of state before and after his appointment as lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia in 1792. The first volume consists of Wentworth's correspondence (1783-1808) as Surveyor-General of the King's Woods in North America.

Subseries forms part of Government at Halifax series and consists of letter books of Governor Peregrine Thomas Hopson, 1752-1753; Lieutenant Governor Jonathan Belcher, 1760-1763; and Governor Montagu Wilmot, 1763-1764.

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).

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.