Title proper
Anderson family (descendants of Thomas Sr.)
General material designation
- Textual record
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
- Source of title proper: Title based on contents.
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Reference code
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Date(s)
-
1857-1897 (Creation)
- Creator
- Anderson family (descendants of Thomas Sr.)
Physical description
20 cm of textual records
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Anderson family were descendants of Thomas Sr. (1745-1841) and Mary Anderson, who emigrated to Sackville, New Brunswick, from Yorkshire, England, in the early 1770s. Settling at Cole’s Island, situated on the Tantramar Marsh near Sackville, the first two generations engaged in farming. Titus Anderson, grandson of Thomas Sr., became a master mariner, the first of many seafaring men in the Anderson family of Sackville.
Custodial history
The records were a gift to Mount Allison Archives, delivered by Phyllis Stopps on behalf of the donor, George Anderson of Sackville, New Brunswick, son of Thomas Rheese Anderson.
Scope and content
Records consist mainly of family correspondence, including many letters written by the Anderson family shipmasters while involved in coastal and foreign trade; miscellaneous financial records, the estate of Titus Anderson, business cards, miscellaneous printed items, and notes.
Physical condition
Arrangement imposed by Archivist. Often the places and occasionally the dates used in the description of the letters have been taken from the envelopes containing them. The envelopes, although in a separate file, have been assigned the same item number as the letter it originally held.
Immediate source of acquisition
Donated by George Anderson, 1996
Arrangement
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
No restrictions
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
Inventory available at repository
Associated materials
Additional Anderson family records are located in accessions 7610, 8317, 8610, 9125, and 9501. The Anderson family History is accession 7635, and an addendum to it is the accession 8431.