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Name Files
CA NL006 2 · Series · 1500-1850
Part of Keith Matthews fonds

Series consists of data on individuals, families and businesses that were involved in the settlement, fisheries and trade of Newfoundland from earliest settlement to 1850. The files were compiled from a wide variety of English, Irish and Newfoundland records, include parish registers, newspapers, shipping records, customs records, political papers, census records, merchant records, diaries, records of the British Colonial Office, Admiralty and Board of Trade, muster rolls and crew lists etc. Most of the data concerns people from the West of England, but it also includes individuals involved with the Newfoundland trade who resided in London, Ireland, Bristol and the Channel Islands. The collection includes data on 7,300 surnames, arranged by surname and subdivided by given name. Records are arranged by surname.

Rev. John Forrestall fonds
Fonds · 1812-1850

Fonds consists of records related to Rev. John Forrestall and includes his baptismal certificate and canonical documents of his ordination and appointments. Fonds also includes newspaper clippings and printed material related to his life.

Forrestall, John
Nathan Smith DeMill fonds
Fonds · Microfilmed [196?] (originally created 1833-1851)

Fonds consists of two microfilmed letter books dating 1833-47 and 1847-51, which contain correspondence from Nathan Smith DeMill to various businesses. The letter books provide information about accounts, orders, cargo, sailing dates and voyage destinations.

DeMill, Nathan Smith
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.

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.

Rev. Thomas J. Waldron fonds
Fonds · 1808-1854

Fonds consists of records related to Rev. Thomas Waldron, including baptismal certificate, canonical documents of ordination and appointment. Fonds also includes newspaper clippings and printed material related to his life.

Waldron, Thomas J.
Fonds · 1816-1855

Fonds consists of minutes of the organization from 1829-1858, including minutes of the Newfoundland Auxiliary of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, 1838-1844; reports and accounts pertaining to the Newfoundland District of the British Wesleyan Methodist Conference, 1840-1853 and Sabbath school reports, 1844-1859.

British Wesleyan Methodist Conference. Newfoundland District
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).

William Graves fonds
Fonds · 1856

Fonds consists of incoming business correspondence of William Graves for 1856. Most of the letters refer to daily business transactions, freight rates and markets, and purchase of supplies. Fonds also contains correspondence from ship captains. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Graves, William