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New Subject Guide: British West Indies

This guide provides a sample of the wide variety of materials in The Loyalist Collection relating to the the islands making up the West Indies, today referred to as the Caribbean, and specifically the British island colonies, with an overview of what they contain and how to search them. The material provides a window into this region during the 18th and early 19th centuries, and its place in the wider British Atlantic World.

British West Indies

 

Explore our interactive story map,"New Brunswick Loyalist Journeys!"

2022 - TWENTY NEW BIOGRAPHIES from St. John County and Kings County.

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New Brunswick Loyalist Journeys

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Events

Aug 10, 2024, Black Loyalist Academic Conference of Knowledge, The Journey Back to Birchtown, Black Loyalist Heritage Centre, Shelburne, Nova Scotia.

Aug 9-11, 2024.  Loyalist Festival at the Bedeque Area Historical Museum, Bedeque, Prince Edward Island.

July 10- 13, 2025 United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada Conference, Saint John, New Brunswick.

Release of Novel: Shades of Allegiance. By author Jane Simpson, UE explores the "Hidden Loyalties of the Giraud/ Gerow Family in the American Revolution (1690-1791) Westchester County, New York" using sources from The Loyalist Collection. Learn more here.


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New Research Aids

2023/2024

Peleg Wiswall's Correspondence: 1777-1887. Document listing for privateering documents, electronic finding aids section.

Jarvis Family Papers: 1761-1973. Calendar of Papers available digitally (contact Microforms staff).

Great Britain.. High Court of Admiralty. Letters of Marque: Declarations Against France, Spain, and the United Provinces (HCA 26/33-59): 1777 - 1783. Scanned and typed indexes for ships and masters, electronic finding aid section (IN PROGRESS).

List of Indigenous primary source material in The Loyalist Collection.

2022/2023

A PDF transcription of David R. Facey-Crowther’s "The New Brunswick Militia Commissioned Officers' Lists (1787-1867)" is available in catalogue records associated with the New Brunswick Militia. PDF icon NEW BRUNSWICK MILITIA COMMISSIONED OFFICERS LISTS 1787-1867.pdf

New Brunswick. Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace (York County).  Minutes: 1789-1841. Nominal index with date and page numbers available from 1789-1826 in electronic finding aid section in twenty-four parts.

New Brunswick. Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace (St. John County). Minutes: 1812-1839. Formatted transcription of Minutes from 1812 to 1828 available in six parts as PDF files in the electronic finding aids section.

New Brunswick. Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Northumberland County). Minutes: 1789-1807.  Formatted transcription of Minutes from 1789 to 1807 available as a PDF file in the electronic finding aids section.

New Brunswick. Court of the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Charlotte County). Minutes: 1820 - 1881.  Nominal index with date and page numbers available in electronic finding aid section in eight parts.

New Brunswick. Court of the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Sunbury County). Minute and Docket Book: 1785 - 1834. Nominal index listed chronologically and including date and page number available as multiple PDFs in electronic finding aid section.

New Brunswick. Court of the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Kings County)  Minutes: 1815-1872.  Formatted transcription of Minutes from 1819 to 1855 available in six parts as PDF files in the electronic finding aids section.

New Brunswick. Court of the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Northumberland County) Marriage Registers: 1806-1837.  Finding aid indexing names, dates, location, and page reference of all marriage records.  (Lists arranged by marriage license number, please search each sheet for names and zoom in for details on PDF).

New Brunswick. Court of the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace. (Charlotte County) Marriage Register: 1789-1839. Finding aid indexing names, dates, location, and page reference of all marriage records.

America. Massachusetts. Office of Secretary of State. Massachusetts Archives Collection: 1603-1789. Added volumes pertaining to Indigenous affairs with digital documents lists available.

Amherst, Jeffery. Official Papers and Correspondence: 1740-1783. Digital document lists and index, and link to online edition available.

Chalmers, George. Letters: 1728-1818. Digital document lists and transcription available for some sections.

Great Britain. Church of England. Dioces of London. Bishop. Fulham Papers at Lambeth Palace Library: 1626-1822. Link to online calendar with document summaries available.

Great Britain. Treasury. Treasury Board Papers: Unregistered Papers (T 1/624-625): 1785. Digital document lists available.

Henry E. Huntington Library.  Collection: 1776-1781. Transcription of the Committee of Safety Minute Book, Duchess, County, New York, December 1777-April 1778.

Hewitt, William. Papers: 1756--1790. Digital document summaries available for certain section.

Pitt, William. Papers of William Pitt the younger: 1774-1806. Digital document summaries available for certain section.