Fonds consists of records related to Rev. Thomas Grace, including baptismal certificate, canonical documents of ordination and appointment. Fonds also includes newspaper clippings and printed material related to his life.
Grace, ThomasThe 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 CourtThe records in this fonds originated in the offices of the court of the Northern District Court at Trinity. The material represents almost 200 years of the administration of justice in the district. Included with the original material is a series of early court proceedings, 1753-1774, copied from the original records held at the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador (PANL). The fonds includes records of the Trinity Magistrates' Office from 1830-1909; commissions and appointments of Justices of the Peace, 1849-1930; wills and land transfers, 1798-1924; appointment calendars for the magistrates office at Trinity, 1907-1931; Acts of Parliament and Orders in Council, 1833-1904; and voters' lists for 1836, 1865 and 1962. The records have been arranged in series following form and function.
Northern District Court, TrinityFonds consists of letters of appointment, diary notes, testimonial letters, land lease for the Old Chapel (St. John's), correspondence and a copy of his last will and testament. Fonds also includes newspaper clippings and printed material related to his life.
Lambert, PatrickFonds consists of microfilmed records which were one of the Massachusetts Historical Society's earliest manuscript acquisitions. The original papers were donated to the Massachusetts Historical Society by Ezekiel Price in 1792. Included are manuscript letters, petitions, statistics, lists, and observations concerning the American Revolution, Maine lands and cod fisheries, Boston merchants, Boston town meetings, East India trade, and materials relating to William Bollan, John Hancock, Sylvester Gardiner, the Marquis de Vaudrieul, Edward Payne, and other Massachusetts founders
Price, EzekielFonds consists of records related to Rev. Edmund Bourke and includes his baptismal certificate and certificate of ordination. Fonds also includes newspaper clippings and printed material related to his life.
Bourke, EdmundFonds consists of an autograph letter signed, Port of St. John's, Newfoundland, Oct. 30 1756, by Michael Gill, Commissary, certifying that George Nixon, master of the sloop Diligence, who landed a cargo of lumber from Piscatataqua, could not proceed from the harbour with his vessel as it was condemned. The cargo included a large lumber shipment of oak planks and maple boards, quite likely for shipbuilding for action in the French and Indian war.
Gill, MichaelRegister of baptisms, marriages, burials, (1757-1867), Vestry minutes (1826-1846), pew rents (1846-1909), visitor's book (1825-1925), Sunday School roll book (1896-1900,1914-1920), services registers, and financial records. Includes the school accounts for the Conlonial and Continental Church Society school in Trinity (1825-1902).
The microfilmed ledger is volume 1 of the Derby family papers, an extensive collection of business records and family materials belonging to the James Duncan Phillips Library, Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem.
The ledger records Richard Derby's debits and credits with other merchants, as well as with mariners, fishermen, shoremen, artisans, farmers, and widows from Salem and surrounding towns for the years 1757-76 and 1786-90. There is also a copy of Derby's will, dated 1783.
Derby, RichardFonds consists of microfilmed copies of ships' papers, including fishing and shipping papers, 1761-1790. They record trading activities with local merchants in Virginia and Maryland; unofficial cargo manifests; journal of a voyage on the sloop Phoenix; and work performed aboard the sloop Robinwood. Business and family papers contain correspondence, legal records, and financial papers relating to shipping and business affairs and include merchant correspondence, bonds and deeds, shipping accounts, and correspondence with family members.
Fonds is arranged in three series: Ships' papers (1761-1790); Shipping account books (1763-1788); Business and family papers (1758-1817).
Burnham, Joshua