This fonds consists of a single item -- an account book for Hugh Doherty's grocery store located in Saint John, N.B. The account book contains itemized accounts for each customer, showing the quantity of goods purchased and the amount charged. Often the customer's occupation is given.

This fonds consists of a single item -- a time book kept by John Collins of Indiantown, New Brunswick beginning on 2 May 1867. It records the names of employees, the number of days worked, the amount paid per day, the amount paid as wages, and the date of payment.

This fonds documents the business activities of John Ward and his sons, John Ward, Jr., Charles Ward, and Caleb Ward, under the firm names John Ward & Son and John Ward & Sons. It includes primarily ship accounts and business correspondence, including communications with agents in Britain, the West Indies, and Quebec; business firms in the United States; master mariners; and New Brunswick politicians.

This item is a very brief holograph will of Joseph Andrews.

This fonds consists of a 47-page, handwritten report titled "Journal of Transactions on a Voyage to England to Purchase Horses for the Province of New Brunswick" (1853) and nine newspaper articles (ca. 1853-1859). Also included is a book by Marianus Cuming's son concerning Cuming family experiences in Scotland, New Brunswick, and Australia.

This account book includes entries on half-pay; business transactions in grain, lumber, foodstuffs, shoes and boots, rum, tobacco, and other goods; and exchanges of labour. It also includes receipts of payments made on accounts and brief entries relating to voyages of the trading vessel the "Mary Salter," specifically, the dates she left and returned to Nova Scotia and her ports of call. Entries are written in several hands other than Robert Salter's, one possibly being William W. Salter's.

The collection consists of administrative records of the Saint John almshouse, almost all from after 1920. It includes minutes, correspondence, financial records, employment records and records related to the Home as a trustee of the pensioners in its care.

The earlier records include alphabetical admittance registers, 1853-1961; chronologically arranged admittance registers, with remarks about the patient's character and condition, and date and reason for leaving, if any, 1885-1925; register of applications for assistance made to the Almshouse Office at Water Street which gives case history and record of action taken,1901-1921; and alphabetical files on persons admitted to the home between 1900 and 1963, which may include biographical sketches, dates of admittance, major physical disabilities, age, religion, death dates, and sometimes a photograph. There is also material relating to illegitimate children, their mothers and adoption.

This fonds consists of administrative records of the Saint John Unitarian Fellowship beginning in 1960. It includes minutes of regular and annual meetings, minutes of committee meetings, correspondence, annual reports, conference reports, notes, membership lists, newsletters, and pamphlets.