Series - Special subjects

3.9 m of textual records (70 volumes)

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.