- Call Number:
- HIL-MICL FC LPR .N4P7M4
- Category:
- New Brunswick
- Creator:
- New Brunswick. Provincial Secretary.
- Material Description:
- 1 microfilm textual records 35 mm
- Contents:
The Provincial Secretary's Memorandum Book is a tiny notebook containing cryptic entries giving the date, subject, and in some cases, the costs involved for each notation. The entries relate to all matters that came to the Secretary's attention and provide a fascinating window into the duties performed by this official during the first years of settlement.
Included in the notations are references to commissions; memorials; appointments; correspondence and postage; marriage bonds and licenses; financial accounts; supplies, e.g. hay, lumber, etc.; a list of aldermen for St. John, 1790; and many references to requests for land and other land transactions.
- Originals:
- The original records are held by the New Brunswick Museum Archives.
- Other With:
- The Provincial Secretary's Memorandum Book: 1784-1809 is microfilmed on the same reel with the Lieutenant Governor's Commissions: 1766-1831, and is shelved at MIC-Loyalist FC LPR .N4P7M4 in the Loyalist Collection.