Militia and Regular Army Records : 1796 - 1875.

            The Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick was the Commander-in-Chief of the military forces in the colony. He was the supreme authority in all regular military and militia affairs from 1784 until 1867.
            

            The material in this record series has been arranged in a number of sections according to subject. Each section has been organized chronologically.
 Reel 1, begins with debentures for travel and attendance for members of the House of Assembly and the Legislative Council. This is followed by militia and regular army records which continue until the first part of Reel 5. Included are the following: general correspondence; regimental orders; applications for commissions and certificates for commissions; quarter-master's bonds; certificates for warrants; militia musters and pay rolls; accounting correspondence, papers and vouchers; regular army supplies and troops; apprehension of deserters; and the Lieutenant Governor's papers respecting the Fenian Troubles. The remainder of Reel 5  contains material which, although important to historians, has little if anything to do with military affairs. There is a section called Mills and Manufacturing and another which is truly Miscellaneous. A few examples of subjects found in this last section include: almshouses, beacons and buoys, canals, census, currency and coinage, debtors, dredging, and others.            

            A finding aid consisting of a combined table of contents and microfilm shelf list has been created by the author of the Loyalist Collection Inventory. The finding aid is available in print and electronically as a PDF.
 Also available, and shelved with the Loyalist Collection Finding Aids in print and electronically as a PDF, are copies of the new Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Finding Aids for RS 558 and RS 559.

A typed listing of "The New Brunswick Militia Commissioned Officers' Lists 1787-1867" is available as a PDF in the electronic finding aids section.
            

Since the film has produced, the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick reorganized the Regular Army and Militia Records in RS 8 and placed them in two separate record series: RS 558, New Brunswick Military Records; and RS 559, New Brunswick Militia Records.

Related Books:

The New Brunswick Militia Commissioned Officers' Lists 1787-1867, available with The Loyalist Collection books

The New Brunswick Militia 1787-1867