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Winslow family

  • CA UNB 2
  • Fonds
  • 1695-1815

This fonds documents the personal, professional, and military activities of several generations of the Winslow family. It includes correspondence, accounts, diaries, claims, deeds, grants, commissions, court records, and memorials. It also includes a military campaign journal and a field book of the Chibnitook survey.

There are family correspondence and papers, 1695-1866, relating principally to Edward Winslow, Jr. and General Henry Fox's letterbook, August to September 1783, relating primarily to public business in Nova Scotia. Seven letterbooks of Edward Winslow's letters to his wife, Mary Symonds Winslow, 1784, are included as well as five letterbooks of Mather Byles, containing letters to Winslow, 1784-1786, and Stephen Miller's book.

The financial records include W. Winslow accounts, 1794-1800, and Edward Winslow accounts, 1770-1811. There are three diaries of Benjamin Marston's, 1778-1787, a campaign journal, 1779, and Edward Winslow's diary, 1779-1810. Also included are sketches, the field book of the Chibnitook survey (original), 1797-1799, land claims, land records, and other legal and court records. Among the court records are a record of 3 cases before the New Brunswick Court of Common Pleas, 1796-1808, 3 volumes on the Maine-New Brunswick Boundary Arbitration, 1796-1808, and memorials, commissions, claims, and remarks by Ward Chipman, British agent, and James Sullivan, ship's agent.

Winslow family (Descendants of Edward Winslow, Loyalist)

The Eagle's Nest

  • Fonds
  • 1707 - 1965

The fond for the Eagle's Nest (Nid d'Aigle) of Kars is comprised of a written report of a talk given by Mrs. Hendry O. McLellan of East Riverside New Brunswick to the Kings County Historical Society in Sussex New Brunswick on October 28th 1965, and the other is a collection of notes made from papers in possession of Helen Adams by Catherine McLellan, September 1962.

The Eagle's Nest or Nid d'Aigle was the home of a distinguished French family who lived there in the early eighteenth Century it local ore holds that it was also a French military post during the French period.

Barr family fonds

  • CA MNBM ID297
  • Fonds
  • 1709-1932

This fonds includes correspondence of the Barr family, 1873-1898 and family certificates, insurance policies and other records, 1709-1902. There is also a diary of F. H. Barr about trips through the Maritime provinces, 1881-1882, a diary of Ida Jane Harding, 1877-1880, and a muster roll of company no. 2, Saint John County Light Infantry, 1866.

Barr family (Saint John)

Gary Bowser

  • CA HM 10.15
  • Fonds
  • 1724;1888],[1895],1900,[1905],1910-1911, 1939-1945, 2006

Fonds consists of 50 photographs of early training at camp Sussex . One studio portrait of LCol Domville with sabretache.
Included is the following :
1724 - 1725 Badges
Scanned Photograph of Queen's Rangers
Scanned 7 pages of the Units of New Brunswick militia 1787-1867
1 cm 1805 British Hussars Regiments
Cavalry verses Infantry 1813
Regimental history- List of officers 1832-1838, 1840-1845
1857 Dress regulations
1860 Regimental History
1865 Camp of instruction New Brunswick Militia 31 pages
1866 Regimental History 1 page
1867 Regimental History
1869 Regimental History
1870 Regimental History
1871 Regimental History
1872 Militia Reports
1874 Inspection Lists and Officers List
1875 Regimental History
1876 Plans of Encampment for a Battalion of Infantry and Cavalry Regiments
1877 Inspection Reports
1887 - 1891 - Regimental History
1892 - Orders
1893 -1894 - Regimental Orders
1895-1897 - Militia General Orders
1898 - Militia General Orders
1899- Training and general Orders
1900 - Militia General Orders
1901- Records
1902-1947 Militia and General Orders
1948 Canadian Army Orders
1949-1952 - General Orders
1953 - 2001 Records
2003 Armour Bulletin
2004-2007 Records.
Included are Newspaper clippings, Regimental History Song Book, Canadian Army Journal, National Defence, Christmas Documents , Insignia, Dress Regulations.,articles and kit layout drawing.

Bowser, Gary

Gorham Family

  • CA KPH 1.5
  • Fonds
  • 1725-2008

This fonds is broken down into five series, which are Historical Information, Miscellaneous, Correspondence, Genealogical Information, and an individual series for Raymond Paddock Gorham. Contained within it are vital records that pertain to the family, histories and accounts, genealogical reports, family trees, and photographs. There is a gap in the records before the first census of the area in 1851. After that time, however, the family's presence in the area is well documented.

Gorham family

Indian Papers

  • CA FRM MS56
  • Collection
  • 1725-1902

This series consists of items which relate to Indians. Included are copies of treaties signed between 1725 and 1902.

Dixon family fonds

  • CA PANB MC251
  • Fonds
  • 1729-1939

This fonds consists of three main groups of records: the correspondence, memoirs and business records of Charles Dixon (1731-1817); the legal records and correspondence of Edward and James Dixon, with genealogical notes about the family, compiled by James in the 1880s and 1890s; and the records of several local organizations assembled by James while he was an officer of these organizations.

Charles Dixon's records contain a detailed memoir describing his arrival in Sackville with his family in 1772. Correspondence and legal records of Dixon's personal and family business are included, as are records created in his roles as justice of the peace, overseer of the poor, and other public positions. The records give insight into many of the political and religious issues of the time. They include three agreements to buy and sell negro or black slaves, 1792-1795. Also included is the petition of Moses Delesdernier (dated 1780) claiming for expenses incurred in settling and dividing the township of Hopewell from 1774 to 1776. This petition listed expenses incurred for aboriginal women who assisted him in his travels and expenses for housing a Negro in sickness. Dixon corresponded and did business with many of the important political and social figures of the day including Jonathan Odell, Governor Haldimand, Amos Botsford and Isaac Allen.

Edward and James' records consist largely of legal and land documents and family correspondence. James' genealogical notes and correspondence are also included.

There are accounts for the Sackville and Westmorland Agricultural Society, 1871-1872. Records of the Sackville Methodist Chapel, 1816-1890, consist of deeds and financial records about building the chapel and include a history of Methodism in Sackville, handwritten by James Dixon about 1890. There are also accounts of the Sackville Rural Cemetery, 1875-1935.

Dixon family (Descendants of Charles Dixon)(Sackville)

Odell family

  • CA MNBM ID3735
  • Fonds
  • 1732-1935

This fonds consists of family and business correspondence, estate records, property deeds and other records. The records of Jonathan Odell include his poetry and literary correspondence, his sermons, general correspondence and accounts. There are also records of his church appointments and some notebooks.

The records of William F. Odell include his correspondence, appointments, some surveyors' notebooks and his accounts. Records of William H. Odell also include correspondence, appointments and accounts. There are also records of Benjamin Kent, the Hailes family, Elizabeth Baillie, Samuel Cooke, James Hunter, William Botsford, Alexander Ross and Hugh Johnston.

There are family deeds and grants and other records of property belonging to or managed by the family including property in Nova Scotia, the College lands (reserved for the building of the King's College, which became University of New Brunswick), Rookwood and the Hermitage. There is correspondence with the Fredericton Parks Association, 1886-1921 about setting up a public park (Odell Park) on land formerly owned by the family and records of properties owned by Jonathan Bliss.

Odell family

Hubbard family

  • CA MNBM ID123
  • Fonds
  • 1738 - 1875

This fonds consists of family papers including estate and land title documents, personal correspondence of both William and Nathaniel and private financial records. Many records created by Nathaniel in the course of his work are also present, including court books (1826-1860) for Sunbury Co. containing 560 petty civil cases (Hubbard as magistrate); working files of Nathaniel Hubbard as supervisor of public works, including his accounts and reports of construction and repair of Great Road from Nashwaak to Finger Board (ca. 50 miles); and work with the provincial government, commissioners, surveyors, contractors, and labourers in road and bridge work, 1825-1856. There are also working files of Nathaniel Hubbard as commissioner for Gagetown Canal, 1840-1844;

Records created by both father and son as magistrate and registrar of Sunbury Co. include property records for Burton, Lincoln, Maugerville, Sheffield and other parishes and marriage licenses and bonds for Sunbury Co. residents, 1788-1826. There are also documents belonging to Richard Floyd (New York and Maugerville), 1738-1784; and a journal, Rev. Samuel Clarke in account with Leveritt DeVeber, 1831-1842;

Hubbard, William

Norman Morrison letterbook

  • CA UNB MG H 44a
  • Item
  • [1740-1759]

Typescript copy of a portion of Norman Morrison's letterbook dating between 1740 and 1759.

Morrison, Norman

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