Manuscript report. Relates to proposal for introducing the cultivation of hemp in the province of Nova Scotia. The report was addressed to Lord Dorchester, governor of the provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and their dependencies.
Fonds consists of correspondence, business records, bonds, stocks and memoranda. Also includes the marriage certificate of John Macaulay and Sarah Phillis Young, 1853 and the prayer book of Robert Macaulay, father of John Macaulay, with manuscript additions giving information on births, marriages and deaths in the Kingston area.
Fonds consists of microfilm copies of correspondence and other papers of Rev. John Stuart, Sir James Stuart, Andrew Stuart, Sheriff John Stuart from the Archives of Ontario as well as a small amount of original material comprised of correspondence, including some to Bishop White of Philadelphia.
The fonds consists of correspondence, financial records, legal documents, militia papers, council minutes, press clippings, and miscellaneous material relating to the activities of William Fairfield, a United Empire Loyalist who came to Canada in 1784, and to his descendants. Includes the 1796 Chippewa-Fairfield Deed, a private conveyance of land title.
The fonds consists of correspondence, militia papers, accounts, receipts and miscellaneous documents. The bulk of the correspondence is from when Stone was most active as a Militia officer. There are several general orders relating to such things as services rendered by Indigenous warriors, claims for pay and land grants. Among the miscellaneous papers is an indenture of election executed by Stone as returning officer for Leeds County.
The fonds consists of biographical material, correspondence, legal and financial documents, subject files and clippings of a noted Loyalist family. There are numerous family financial records and record books of the Brockville and Prescott Joint Stock Road Company, (ca. 1851-1915), and a general store in Prescott. The papers relate primarily to the affairs of Solomon Jones (1756-1822), physician and member of the Legislative Assembly.
The South Carolina collection consists of two parts: Part 1: the Papers of James Henry Hammond, and Part 2, Miscellaneous Collections of Personal and Family Papers. James Henry Hammond (1807-1864) was a statesman and plantation owner in South Carolina. He served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, and was Governor of South Carolina from from 1840 to 1842. The papers reflect his role as both statesman and planter, including records pertaining to agriculture, education, family life, the practice of law, politics and slave management.The Miscellaneous collections of Personal and Family papers includes: Samuel Porcher Gaillard Plantation journals; John Forsythe Talbert Plantation journals; a Caleb Coker Plantation book; James Trezevant Plantation diary and records; Glover family papers;a James Talbert Ouzts Plantation book; a David Milling Plantation book; John Ogilvie Medical Account books; a diary from Natalie DeLage Sumter; the papers of Mary Hart Means; Thomas family diaries; the papers of James Ritchie Sparkman; the John Stapleton papers; Thomas Cassells Law papers; John McPherson DeSaussure papers; Lewis Malone Ayer papers; the Read-Lance family papers; the Heyward family papers; John Ewing Colhoun papers; the Miller-Furman-Dabbs family papers; and the Hammond-Bryan-Cumming family papers.
The fonds consists of correspondence, legal documents and financial records of Nathan Ford, agent for Samuel Ogden, proprietor of Ogdensburg, 1797, his brother, David Ford, Morristown, N.Y., and of succeeding generations who married into the Jones family, Brockville, Ont.