Record of Roads in the County of York : 1789-1862.

Call Number: HIL-MICL FC LPR .N4C6S4Y6R6
Category: New Brunswick
Creator: New Brunswick. Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace (York County).
Description: 1 microfilm textual records () ; 35 mm
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            The reel contains reports from the Parish Commissioners of Highways to the Court of General Sessions of the Peace giving details of road construction within each parish.  The dates include: 1789-90, 1792-93, 1798, 1800, 1802-3, 1809-10, 1812, 1814, 1817, 1822-36, 1838, 1840-62. The reports give precise information about the route the road will take, including the names of property owners, if any, along its course.  Other information includes:  the length and width of the road, the date and place the report was filed, and the signatures of all the commissioners, the great majority of whom are Loyalists.

Arrangement: No real organisation; probably written in the records when had the time.

Place and Dates in the Records (Note: This is not the arrangement!)

Brighton: 1832
Douglas: 1798* (area was Queensbury at time of recording); 1823; 1825; 1828; 1830; 1831; 1832; 1833; 1834; 1835; 1836; 1838; 1840; 1841; 1842; 1844; 1845; 1846; 1847; 1848; 1849; 1851; 1852; 1854; 1855; 1857; 1859; 1860; 1861
Dumfries: 1849
Fredericton: 1826; 1830**; 1831; 1838
Greenhill Settlement: 1860
Kingsclear: 1789; 1791; 1831; 1840; 1842; 1843; 1851; 1855; 1856; 1859; 1860; 1862
Madamkeswick: 1812; 1817
Nashwack: 1790;
Northampton: 1789; 1803; 1809; 1826
Pecagumie: 1831; 1832
Prince William: 1841; 1852; 1853; 1854** (includes map); 1858; 1859; 1862**
Queensbury: 1802; 1810; 1817; 1822; 1824; 1827; 1830; 1833; 1841; 1842; 1843; 1844; 1846; 1947; 1853; 1855; 1858
St. Marys : 1792; 1793; 1798; 1813; 1825; 1833; 1840; 1844; 1845; 1848; 1850; 1852; 1853; 1854**; 1856**; 1857; 1858; 1859; 1861; 1862
Stanley: 1862
Southampton: 1803; 1809; 1851
Wakefield: 1826; 1827; 1828; 1829; 1830; 1831
Woodstock: 1812; 1816; 1817; 1828
            
Originals: The original records are held by the Archives and Special Collections Department of the Harriet Irving Library, University of New Brunswick.
Archival Ref. No.: UNBF MG H 63.
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Related Published Source: New Brunswick's Early Roads, the routes that shaped the province

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