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Amos Botsford and family fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1763-1839.

Reference:

R6527-0-3-E, MG23-D4

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

100637

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Amos Botsford and family fonds
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1763-1839.

Place of creation:

Nova Scotia

Extent:

10 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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The papers are arranged into five subject files, as follows: correspondence; records of Loyalist settlements; land grants; miscellaneous memoranda and notes; and judicial commissions.

Provenance:

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Botsford, Amos, 1744-1812

Biography/Administrative history:

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Botsford, Amos, 1744-1812 : Amos Botsford was a native of Connecticut. With Samuel Cummings, Frederick Hauser and James Peters, he served as agent for the settlement of Loyalists in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. From 1785 until his death in 1812 he was a member of the New Brunswick Assembly, and its Speaker. His son William Botsford (1773-1864) was a member of the Assembly from 1812, Speaker and Solicitor General from 1817 until 1823, when he was named to the Supreme Court bench. He retired in 1854.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid provides a descriptive list of the items in chronological order. MSS0525 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001558.pdf

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Arrangement note:

The divisions were not strictly observed in the arrangement of the papers and some pages were not numbered in the fist sequence so there are in fact some 350 pages in the collection.

Availability of other formats note:

The collection and the finding aid are available on microfilm, reel H-1687.

Dates of creation note:

The collection and the finding aid were microfilmed in 1985.
Subject heading:

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Amos Botsford - Correspondence, [1763-1839]

Loyalist settlement - New Brunswick, [1763-1839]

Loyalist settlement - Nova Scotia, [1763-1839]

Judicial records, 1[1763-1839]

Canada - Emigration and immigration - United States, [1763-1839]

United States - Emigration and immigration - Canada, [1763-1839]

New Brunswick - Officials and employees, 1785-[1839]

Land grants Canada
Source:

Private

Former archival reference no.:

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MG23-D4
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG23 D 4] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 525] 53

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Microfilm reel H-1687

[Consultation 90 Open]

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