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 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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

Series forms part of Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia fonds and consists of contemporaneous copies of annual returns comprising the "blue books" - reports to the British government relating to the general state of the colony and its public service. Includes returns of local revenue, military expenditure, legislation, public officials, pensions, population, ecclesiastical statistics, education, currency and rates of exchange, weights and measures, imports and exports, agriculture, grants of land, and jails and prison population. Arranged chronologically by year; 1835, 1836, 1844, 1845 missing.

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.