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1748-1870 (Creation)
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6 m of textual records (72 volumes)
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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).
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Volume 219 exists in duplicate as a typescript (top copy and carbon copy). Some mould-infested documents removed from Volume 219 and replaced by typewritten transcripts.
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Manuscript documents numbered in chronological order.
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RG 1 vol. 219-285, 477
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Volumes 219-249 calendared in Volumes 250 and 251.
Volumes 252-283 and 477 each include calendar.
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Volume 221 contains many drafts of letters from the governors to the secretary of state and the lords of trade, copies of which are not among the transcripts of dispatches obtained from the Public Record Office.
Volume 477 (Miscellaneous supplemental 1862-63) omitted from Akins 1886 catalogue.
Originals of Andrew Brown papers available on microfilm.
Papers relating to the Acadian French - Andrew Brown collection available online.