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Financial records
CA NL0053 1.0 · Series · 1807-1861
Part of Slade fonds

Includes photocopies of an account book, and ledgers, 1807-1808 and 1820; 5 volumes of fish collection books for 1844-1851; cooperage sales for 1854; day books, 1856-1858; account books, 1857-1859 and a cash book, 1861. Some of the volumes were later used by Grieve and Bremner and are bound in with the records of that firm.

Slade fonds
Fonds · 1807-1861

The fonds consists of original and photocopied records of this important firm's business at Trinity from 1809-1852. The most complete series are a set of daily diaries, 1809-1852 written by William Kelson, agent for Robert Slade at Trinity. The diaries provide an account of the business as well as providing detail on the social life of the town. The fonds also includes account books, ledgers and fish collection books, which give insight into the various aspects of Slade's mercantile operation, and the independent fishermen with whom he did business. Letterbooks and correspondence, 1809-1855 provide details of the management of the business.

The fonds is arranged in three series. Series 1: Financial records, 1807-1861; Series 2: Diaries, 1809-1852; Series 3: Correspondence, 1809-1855.

Robert Slade & Company
Fonds · 1850-1855

The fonds consists of a price book that lists the prices of a huge inventory of goods, supplies, fish and timber products and produce. The page heading on page 2 reads "Trinity current prices for cash and barter agreed on between Messrs. Robinson Brooking & Co. and R. Slade & Co." Entries are made for summer and winter prices from 1850-1858.

Robinson Brooking & Co
Correspondence
CA NL0053 3.0 · Series · 1809-1855
Part of Slade fonds

This series includes photocopies of a letter book, 1809-1810, chiefly containing letters from William Kelson Sr., the Slade agent or manager at Trinity to the proprietor, Robert Slade at Poole, England; a photocopied letterbook containing letters signed Slade and Kelson, which is mainly business correspondence, 1830-1831; a few pieces of original correspondence addressed to Mr. Robert Slade at Trinity, 1835; and an "obligation to pay" Benjamin Bugden to Robert Slade, 1835, (met in 1855).

Treasurers records
CA NL0053 2.0 · Series · 1838-1854
Part of Trinity Benefit Club fonds

The series consists of the accounts of the club maintained by the treasurer. Included in the two volumes, 1838-1877 and 1877-1954, are bank accounts, members names alphabetically, treasurer's accounts, income and payments on account of sick and deceased members.

Diaries
CA NL0053 2.0 · Series · 1809-1852
Part of Slade fonds

The Slade diaries contain a day to day account of Slade's business at Trinity, as well as general information on the state of the fishery, shipping, weather and comings and goings in the community. Sometimes entitled "Remarks" and at other times "Occurrences", the diaries were kept by William Kelson, the manager for the company at Trinity from 1809-1851. The series includes a complete set of photocopied diaries from 1809-1852, and three original volumes, 1827-1829, 1835-1839, 1839-1843.

Fonds · 1786-1835

The fonds consists of photocopies of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Parish of Bonavista, 1786 - 1834 and an original register of marriages for a variety of churches on the Bonavista Peninsula, mostly from the Bonavista Bay area, 1825 - 1835. The first part of the record contains a handwritten note on the Marriage Act as passed by Parliament in the Fifth year of George IV, Chapter LXVIII, Section VI. According to the law anyone performing a marriage after March 25, 1825 is supposed to deliver to either the Secretary of the Governor or to the incumbent or officiating minister of some church or chapel of the established church of England in the towns of St. John’s, Harbour Grace or Trinity a certificate of marriage. This is then to be entered into a marriage register and is to be kept at that site.

Anglican Parish of Bonavista (Bonavista, N.L. : Anglican)
CA NL0053 1.0 · Series · 1753-1774
Part of Northern District Court, Trinity fonds

The series consists of photocopies of records of the Court of the District of Trinity, 1753-1774, consisting of the judicial proceedings of the Justices of the Peace of the district of Trinity and of the deputy governors; also included are instructions for constables; warrants; complaints and adjudications. There is also a list of residents (1753), vessel entrances and other information.

Trinity District Court
Florence Murrin fonds
Fonds · [197-]

The fonds consists of a single scrapbook entitled "Historical photographs and Manuscripts of Trinity, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland by Rev. Edmund Hunt, 1888-1973". The scrapbook contains photographs and historical information about Trinity and the Rev. Edmund Hunt, compiled by Reverend Hunt's daughter, Florence Murrin. The book contains a number of early photographs of Trinity as well as photographs taken by Rev. Hunt that were made into a postcard series for Trinity. The majority of the photographs were taken by Rev. Hunt. The text was compiled by Murrin, borrowing extensively from a book on Trinity authored by her father.

Murrin, Florence