- Call Number:
- HIL-MICL FC LPR .N4E9R4
- Category:
- New Brunswick
- Creator:
- New Brunswick. Executive Council.
- Material Description:
- 1 microfilm textual records 35 mm
- Contents:
- The Executive Council Records that have been microfilmed on this reel vary greatly in subject matter. The reel begins with two sections of Petitions for Assistance, submitted during a sixty-year period from 1795 until 1846.
Included are: petitions from individuals, most of whom are elderly Loyalist soldiers or their widows; schedules and certificates for assistance to Revolutionary War veterans or their widows; petitions from the Overseers of the Poor in various parishes requesting additional assistance, and including many personal details about the individuals under their care; petitions to the government regarding alms houses, with numerous signatures attached; documents detailing assistance to Madawaska settlers, the poor in Fredericton, and seamen; three sections of requests for Letters of Marque addressed to the Lieutenant Governor or President of the Council; several government proclamations; and a section on evidence given before the Provincial Normal School Investigation concerning the management of the internal affairs of the Normal School.
- Originals:
- The original records are held by the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick.
- Archival Ref. No.:
- PANB RG2 RS 8, Reel #F-7908.
- Finding Aids:
- A table of contents has been created by the author of the Loyalist Collection Inventory. It was assembled from the target headings that are located on the reel at the beginning of each section.
The table of contents is available in print and is shelved with the Loyalist Collection Finding Aids. The table of contents is also available as a PDF.
- PDF Finding Aid:
- NB Executive Council Records Document List.pdf
- Notes:
- The original records in RS 8 have been reorganized by the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick since this film was produced.