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1 1770's 1
January 4, 1774. Warrant to pay £37:19:l0 for oil purchased for the
Lighthouse. To Benjamin Green, Esq. By His Excellency’s Command.
Given under Hand and Seal of Francis Legge, Captain General and
Governor in Chief, His Majesty’s Province of Nova Scotia, its
dependencies, Vice-Admiral of the same.
1 1770's 2
Receipt. December 27, 1779. Halifax-Rec’d of John Newton, Esq.
Thirty pounds currency in part payment for oil supplied The
Lighthouse by Thomas Piart(?) Signed by Stephen N. Binney.
1 1770's 3 “Lighthouse Accounts & Receipts examined”. No Date.
1 1770's 4
Bill. John Newton, Esq. For the use of Sambro Lighthouse. To the
Estate of John Kerby, deceased. Items used from Nov. 1779 to Oct -
1780.
1 1780 1
To Stephen H. Binney. Bill due. Items, March 27, 1780 and April 3,
1780. Total £35.14.6. From John Newton, Esq. for use of Government.
1 1780 2
S. Binney, Receipt for £60. Halifax, March 27, 1780. Received of John
Newton, Esq. Thirty Pounds currency in account of oil supplied the
Lighthouse.
1 1780 3
November 10, 1780. Bill for repairing the glass at Lighthouse on
Sambro Island.
1 1780 4
December 1780. Receipt from John Newton for £18.7.6 to pay Mr.
George Sidlas for wood at Lighthouse Island.
1 1780 5
Receipt. To James Mordan, To 3 Chaldrons of Coal for the use of the
Lighthouse at C. Sambro £11.5.0. Halifax, December 13, 1780. John
Newton, Esq. Received contents in full for Mr. Morden, Signed. Joseph
Cranley.
1 1780 6
Receipt. Halifax, December 28, 1780. From John Newton sum of three
pounds for carrying the coals to the Lighthouse. Signed C. Sadlea.
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1 1780 7
Two Receipts-One from Mr. Mathew Pinnal, Lighthouse Keeper on
Sambro Island for oil; other for wood. March 5, 1781. Signed (X Mark)
John Wale.
1 1781 1
Bill for £27.19.4 for Gov. work done at the Lighthouse of Halifax. By
Robt. Drumgld. (1785)
1 1781 2 Articles required for the Lighthouse in 1781.
1 1781 3 Amount of Kirby’s account to the 21 April 1781.
1 1781 4
To Mr. John Newton, Esq. Receipt for materials used for the
Lighthouse. Signed Jeremiah Marshman. June 16, 1781
1 1781 5
Lighthouse Account. Oil, wood, coal, etc. for the Lighthouse. Due John
Newton, Esq. Halifax, June 16, 1781.
1 1781 6
The Lighthouse account at the Treasury, from June 1, 1781 to June 1,
1782. Signed Benjamin Green, Treasurer.
1
1782-
1784 1
Warrant for John Newton, Esq. to purchase necessities for repairs to
the Lighthouse. Dated July 12, 1782. Halifax.
1
1782-
1784 2 Warrant for John Newton, Esq. Oil for the Lighthouse. Sept. 1, 1784.
1 1785 1
Warrant to John Newton, Esq. to pay salary for one half year for the
Keeper of the Lighthouse from Jan. 1, to June 30, 1784.
1 1785 2
Warrant to John Newton, Esq. A quarter’s salary for the Keeper of the
Lighthouse from July 1 to Sept. 30, 1784. Dated Jan. 10, 1785
1 1785 3
Warrant. To John Newton, Esq. Quarter salary for Lighthouse Keeper
from Oct. 1, to Dec. 31, 1784. Dated Jan. 10, 1785
1 1785 4
Warrant. John Newton, For supplies purchased for the Lighthouse.
June 29, 1785.
1 1787 1
Warrant to pay Matthew Pinnell, Keeper of the Lighthouse £25 for
services from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 1786. Dated Jan. 16, 1787
1 1787 2
Warrant to pay Matthew Pinnell, Keeper of the Lighthouse £25 for his
services from Jan.1 to March 31, 1787. Dated April 19, 1787
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1 1787 3
Warrant to pay Matthew Pinnell £20 for duties arising on the
Lighthouse. Dated July 3, 1787.
1 1787 4
Warrant to pay Matthew Pinnell £25 for his services from April 1 to
June 30, 1787.Dated July 5, 1787.
1 1787 5
Warrant to pay William Hale for £50 expended on the Lighthouse at
Shelburne. Dated Aug. 24, 1787.
1 1787 6
Warrant to pay William Hale for expenditures on Shelburne
Lighthouse. Dated Aug. 24, 1787.
1 1787 7 Receipt. To John Wooden. Expenses re: Light House.
1 1787 8
Warrant to pay Wm. Hale sum of £50 laid out on the Lighthouse at
Shelburne agreeablet to the account annexed. Dated Oct. 8, 1787.
1 1787 9
Warrant to pay Matthew Pinnell, Keeper of the Lighthouse £25 for
services from July 1 to Sept. 30, 1787. Dated October 8, 1787.
1 1787 10
Warrant to pay Wm. Hale £50 for expenses on Lighthouse at
Shelburne. Dated Nov. 16, 1787.
1 1787 11
Warrant to pay Wm. Hales £50 expended on Lighthouse at Shelburne.
Dated Nov. 16, 1787.
1 1787 12
Warrant. Wm. Hale. £39.10 expended on Lighthouse at Shelburne.
Dated Nov. 16, 1787.
1 1788 1
Warrant to pay Matthew Pinnel125 for services as Lighthouse Keeper
from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 1787. Dated Jan. 8, 1788.
1 1788 2
Warrant to pay Matthew Pinnell £25 for services as Lighthouse
Keeper from Jan. 1 to March 31, 1788. Dated April 4, 1788.
1 1788 3
Warrant. To John Newton £25 for oil, wood, coal, etc. Supplied the
Lighthouse from May 1, 1787 to May 1, 1788. Dated June 3, 1788.
1 1788 4
Warrant to pay Wm. Hale sum of £58.19.3 for expenditures on Light
House at Shelburne. July 20, 1788.
1 1788 5
Warrant to pay Wm. Hale £50 for expenses on Lighthouse at
Shelburne. Dated July 2, 1788.
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1 1788 6
Warrant to pay Wm. Hale £100 expended on Lighthouse at Shelburne.
Dated July 2, 1788.
1 1788 7
Warrant July 2, 1788. £25 to Matthew Pinnell for his services as
Keeper of the Lighthouse at Sambro from April 1 to June 30, 1788.
(original destroyed because of mold)
1 1788 8
Warrant to pay Wm. Hale £25 expended for materials and building the
Lighthouse at Shelburne. Dated Sept. 27, 1788.
1 1788 9
Warrant to Wm. Hale £20 Expenditures on Lighthouse at Shelburne.
Dated Sept. 27, 1788.
1 1788 10
Warrant to Wm. Hale £20 for materials, etc. on Lighthouse at
Shelburne. Sept. 27, 1788.
1 1788 11
Warrant. Wm. Hale £20 for materials & Bldg. the Lighthouse at
Shelburne. (Sept. 27, 1788)
1 1788 12 Warrant. Wm. Hale £20 for same as above. Sept. 27, 1788.
1 1788 13 Warrant. Same as above. Sept. 27, 1788.
1 1788 14
Warrant to pay Matthew Pinnell £25 for services as Keeper of the
Lighthouse from July 1 to Sept. 30, 1788.
1 1788 15
Warrant to pay Wm. Hale £25 expended to the contractors for
materials and building the Lighthouse at Shelburne. Dated Nov. 28,
1788.
1 1788 16
Warrant to pay Wm. Hale £25 expended to the contractors for
materials and building the Lighthouse at Shelburne.
1 1788 17
Warrant to pay Wm. Hale £25 expended to the contractors for
materials and building the Lighthouse at Shelburne.
1 1788 18
Warrant to pay Wm. Hale £25 expended to the contractors for
materials and building the Lighthouse at Shelburne.
1 1788 19 Warrant to pay Matthew Pinnell £25 for services (July 2, 1788).
1 1789 1
Warrant to pay Matthew Pinnell £25 for his services as Keeper of the
Lighthouse from Oct. 1 to Ded. 31, 1788.
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1 1789 2
Warrant to pay Matthew Pinnell or his assigns the sum of £25 for his
services as Keeper of the Lighthouse from Jan. 1 to March 31, 1789.
(Dated April 2, 1789)
1 1789 3
Account to Thomas James & Wm. Cochran. List of articles supplied
for the use of the Lighthouse. Halifax, 1789, Signed. John Newton.
1 1789 4
Warrant to pay Matthew Pinnell £25 for services as Keeper of the
Lighthouse at Sambro Island from April 1 to June 30, 1789. Dated July
2, 1789.
1 1789 5
Warrant to pay Wm. Hale £50 for work done on the Lighthouse at
Shelburne, being in part of the sum of £500 granted by Act of the
General Assembly for that purpose. Dated July 11, 1789.
1 1789 6
Warrant to pay Wm. Hale £50 for work done on the Lighthouse at
Shelburne, being in part of the sum of £500 granted by Act of the
General Assembly for that purpose.
1 1789 7
Warrant to pay Wm. Hale £69.l5.5 for work done on the Lighthouse at
Shelburne being in part of the sum of 500 pounds granted by Act of
the General Assembly for that purpose. Dated July 11, 1789.
1 1789 8
Scroll of Letter to Mr. Ed Brinley at Shelburne regarding the
Lighthouse.
1 1789 9
Warrant to pay Wm. Hale £45 for materials and building the
Lighthouse at Shelburne agreeable to annexed account and to Act of
the General Assembly. (Dec.30, 1789).
1 1789 10
Warrant to pay Wm. Hale £35 expended for materials in bldg. the
Lighthouse at Shelburne agreeable to annexed account and to the Act
of the General Assembly. (Dec. 30, 1789.
1 1789 11 Warrant to pay Wm. Hale £70 for same as above. (Dec.30, 1789)
1 1789 12
Warrant to pay Matthew Pinnell, Keeper of the Lighthouse on Sambro
Island the sum of £25 for his services from July 1 to Sept. 30, 1789.
(Dated Oct. 2, 1789).
1 1790 1
Warrant to pay Matthew Pinnell sum of 25 for services from Oct. 1 to
Dec. 31, 1789. Dated Jan. 20, 1790.
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1 1790 2
Warrant. Matthew Pinnell £25 for services as Keeper of the
Lighthouse at Sambro from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 1789 (Original destroyed
because of mold).
1 1790 3
Warrant. £25 to Matthew Pinnell for services as Keeper of the
Lighthouse from Jan. 1 to March 31, 1790. Dated April 30, 1790.
1 1790 4
Warrant. Mssrs. Thos, James and Wm. Cochran. the sum of £376
being for sundry supplies for the use of the Lighthouse on Sambro
Island from June 1, 1789 to May 30, 1790. agreeable to the annexed
account out of the monies collected for the use of said Lighthouse
etc. (Dated June 17, 1790).
1 1790 5
Receipt (March 11, 1791) Sum of £24 & tenpence from Ben Green in
part payment of a warrant for 376.16. (June 17, 1790) Sdq. Thomas,
James, Wm. Cochran.
1 1790 6
Receipt. from Benj. Green, Treasurer, £12.10 in acct. of the
Lighthouse. Sdg. Messrs. Cochran, James Strachan (July 17, 1790)
1 1790 7
Receipt. From Benj. Green. £25.6.3. in acct. of Lighthouse money
signed Thomas J. & Wm. Cochran. (June 30,1790)
1 1790 8
Warrant to pay Matthew Pinnell £25 for his services as Keeper of the
Lighthouse on Sambro Island from April to June 30, 1790. Dated July
20, 1790.
1 1790 8a 8A. Warrant to pay Pinnell for services from July 1 to Sept. 30, 1790.
1 1790 9
Receipt. Sum of £3 from John Newton, Esq. for wood used at
Lighthouse. Signed by mark of George Solemoy
1 1790 10
Account of supplies for the Lighthouse from June 1, 1790 to June 1,
1791.
1 1791 1
Warrant to pay Alexander Cocher £40 for two years salary as Keeper
of Lighthouse at Shelburne at the rate if 20 per annum. Commencing
the 27 March, 1788 ending March 27, 1790 out of the monies
collected during that period for the Lighthouse. (Dated July 26, 1791).
1 1791 2
Account of the Commissioners for building the Lighthouse to William
Hale. £119.7.6 2/3 (June 1, 1791.)
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1 1791 2a
Warrant to pay William Hale £30.4.9 being in part expenses incurred in
building the Light house at Shelburne agreeable to annexed account
(April 25, 1791)
1 1791 3
Warrant to pay £50 to Wm. Hale being in part of expenses incurred
inbuilding the Lighthouse at Shelburne agreeable to the annexed
account and being a balance remaining of the sum rated by the
General Assembly for that purpose. Dated April 25, 1791. (Two copies)
1 1791 4
Receipt from Benj. Greens £7.15 for thirty gallons oil supplied the
Light house and the expenses of sealing a warrant. Signed for
Messrs. Cochran, James Strachan.
1 1791 5
Warrant £25 to Matthew Pinnell for his services as Keeper of the
Lighthouse from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 1790. Dated Jan. 13, 1791.
1 1791 6
Warrant £25 to Matthew Pinnel for his services as Keeper of the
Lighthouse from Jan. 1 to March 31, 1791. Dated April 12, 1791.
1 1791 7
Warrant £25 to Matthew Pinnell for his services as Keeper of the
Lighthouse from April 1 to June 30,1791. Dated June 30, 1791.
1 1791 8
Warrant £26.16.0 to Edward Foster for a Grate for the use of the
Lighthouse on Sambro Island. July 1, 1791-
1 1791 9
Warrant £25 to Matthew Pinnell for his services as Keeper of the
Lighthouse from July 1 to Sept. 30,1791. Dated October 2, 1791.
1 1792 1
Warrant £25 to Alexander Cocken for services as Keeper of the
Lighthouse at Shelburne. Dated Aug. 3, 1792.
1 1792 2
Warrant to pay £25 to Matthew Pinnell for services as Keeper of the
Lighthouse on Sambro Island from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 1791. Dated Jan.
2, 1792.
1 1792 3
Warrant.£25 to Matthew Pinnell as Keeper of the Lighthouse on
Sambro Island from Jan. 1 to March 31, 1792 out of the duties
collected for the support of the Lighthouse. Dated April 2, 1792.
1 1792 4
Various receipts & orders dealing with the Lighthouse, May 1792-
December 1792.
1 1792 5
Warrant. £25 to Matthew Pinnell for his services as Keeper of the
Lighthouse on Sambro Island from July 1 to Sept. 30, 1792. Dated
Nov. 5, 1792.
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1 1793 1
Warrant. £30 to Alexander Cocken of Shelburne for Provincial
Services rendered by him. Dated Jan. 2, 1793.
1 1793 2
Warrant. £25 to Matthew Pinnell for services as Keeper of the
Lighthouse on Sambro Island for the quarter commencing Oct. 1 to
Dec. 31, 1792. Dated Feb. 22, 1793.
1 1793 3
Account. The Collectors of Halifax Lighthouse duties. April 1—June
30, 1793 (In account with Government).
1 1793 4
Voucher for the payment of £232.16.5 voted by the Assembly
Sessions 1793 for demands against Shelburne Lighthouse (With
several accounts for items supplied the lighthouse).
1 1793 5
Warrant. £18.15 for services as Keeper of the Lighthouse on McNutt’s
Island at the entrance to the Harbour of Shelburne being for three
months commencing Jan. 1 and ending March 31, 1793 at 6.5 per
month Dated May 1, 1793.
1 1793 6
Warrant. £104.3.4. to Messrs. Thomas James & William Cochran
being the amount of their account in full for sundry supplies made by
them for the Lighthouse at Shelburne, preceding this date, included in
a vote of the General Assembly, at their last Session. Dated May 21,
1793.
1 1793 7
Warrant. £25 to Matthew Pinnell for his services as Keeper of the
Lighthouse at Sambro Island for the quarter commencing Jan. 1 to
March 31, 1793. Dated May 1, 1793.
1 1793 8
Warrant £50 to Alexander Cocken for services and all other demands
as Keeper of the Lighthouse on McNutt’s island and entrance of
Harbour of Shelburne from date of his appointment to Sept. 1, 1792.
Dated May 1, 1793.
1 1793 9
Warrant. Sum to Lighthouse Keeper on McNutt’s Island near
Shelburne for period Sept. 1 to Dec. 31, 1792. May 1, 1793.
1 1793 10
Warrant (With Account attached) to pay Lawrence Hartshorne, Esq.
for supplies to Shelburne Light house. June 21, 1793.
1 1793 11
Warrant. Sum to Matthew Pinnell for services as Lighthouse Keeper at
Sambro’s Island April 1 to June 30, 1793. (July 2, 1793).
1 1793 12
Correspondence & accounts pertaining to supplies used at Shelburne
Lighthouse.
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1 1793 13 Shelburne Lighthouse Act. at Treasury, March 31 to Nov. 6, 1793.
1 1793 14
Warrant to pay for services of Lighthouse Keeper on McNutt’s Island
for period July 1 to Sept. 30, 1793. (Nov. 7, 1793)
1 1793 15
Warrant to pay same person as above for services as Keeper of the
Lighthouse on McNutt’s Island from April 1 to June 30, 1793. (Nov. 7,
1793)
1 1793 16 Warrant to pay for lighting at Sambro Island. (Nov. 9, 1793)
1 1793 17 Receipts for supplies purchased for lighthouse at Cape Sambro.
1 1793 18
Acct. Adam Dechozeau for attendance at Sambro Lighthouse, April
1793.
1 1794 1
Warrant. Sum to Alexander Cocken of Shelburne for services from
Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 1793. (Jan. 6, 1794)
1 1794 2
Warrant to Lighthouse Keeper at Sambro for services in Oct., 1793.
(Jan. 6, 1794)
1 1794 3 Receipt for repairs to Sambro Lighthouse, Jan. 1794.
1 1794 4
Warrant to pay sum for lighting Sambro Island Lighthouse Oct. 1 to
Dec. 31, 1793. (Jan. 24, 1794)
1 1794 5
Warrant to pay for sundry supplies to Shelburne Lighthouse. (Jan. 28,
1794).
1 1794 6
Warrant to pay sum for coals & oil supplied Shelburne Lighthouse
(Jan. 28, 1794Y.
1 1794 7 Letter re: purchase of oil at Shelburne, Feb, 1794.
1 1794 8 Warrant to pay for oil for Shelburne Lighthouse, Jan., 1794.
1 1794 9
Warrant to pay for lighting at Sambro Island Jan. to March, 1794.
(April 1, 1794)
1 1794 10
Warrant for services of Lighthouse Keeper at McNutt’s Island from
Jan. 1 to March 31, 1794. (April 1, 1794)
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1 1794 11
Warrant for expenses incurred in completing & lighting the Lighthouse
on McNutt’s Island. (April 1, 1794)
1 1794 12 Account of sundries supplied at Shelburne Lighthouse.
1 1794 13 Receipts & Accounts re: expenses at Sambro Lighthouse, 1794.
1 1794 14
Statement re: expenses at Shelburne Lighthouse, April 1793—July 1,
1794.
1 1794 15
Letter—Alex. Cocken of June 2, 1794 with his account against the
Lighthouse at Shelburne.
1 1794 16 Statement of Shelburne Lighthouse Account to July 1,1794.
1 1794 17
Warrant to pay Alex. Cocken for his services as Lighthouse Keeper at
McNutts’ Island from April 1 to June 30, 1794. (July 2, 1794)
1 1794 18
Receipt from Alex. Cocken. McNutt’s Island Lighthouse April 1, 1793—
July 1, 1794.
1 1794 19
Warrant to pay for Lighting Sambro Island Light House April 1 to June
30, 1794.
1 1794 20
Report of Necessary repairs to be done at Halifax Lighthouse. (July
17, 1794)
1 1794 21
Alex. Cocken’s account of sundry necessities for repairing lamps at
Shelburne Lighthouse. 1794&1795.
1 1794 22 Warrant to pay for lighting Sambro Lighthouse,l793.
1 1794 23
Warrant to pay for expenses at McNutt’s Island Lighthouse, April 1,
1793 to July 1, 1794.
1 1794 24 Amount re: Sambro Lighthouse, 1794 (Brick& wood furnished)
1 1794 25 Amount re: repairs at Sambro Lighthouse.
1 1794 26 Halifax Lighthouse accounts from April 1, 1793 to May 31, 1794.
1 1794 27 Receipt for carrying timbers to Sambro Lighthouse, 1794.
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1 1794 28 Account & Receipt for hire of a boat to Sambro, 1794.
1 1794 29 Account for repairing Sambro Lighthouse (Iron Tools) 1794.
1 1794 30 Account-Blacksmith work at Sambro Lighthouse, 1794.
1 1794 31
Account-Boards, planks & nails used for repairing Sambro Lighthouse,
1794.
1 1794 32 Account-Timber, planks, etc. for repairing Sambro, 1794.
1 1794 33
Accounts for boat hire, labour when repairs were done at Sambro
Lighthouse, 1794.
1 1794 34
Account-work & Materials for Halifax Lighthouse,1794 and order in
favour of John Stewart.
1 1794 35 Warrant. Aug, 1, 1794. to pay for repairing Sambro Is land Lighthouse.
1 1794 36 Warrant, Aug. 4, 1794. Repairs to Sambro Island & New lamp.
1 1794 37 Warrant, Aug. 4, 1794. Copy of above.
1 1794 38
Warrant Aug. 4, 1794. Balance of sum allowed for repairing Sambro
Lighthouse & constructing a new lamp thereon.
1 1794 39 Account for timber, repairing Sambro Lighthouse, 1794.
1 1794 40 Letter-Alex. Cocken, Sept. 1794. Shelburne Lighthouse expenses.
1 1794 41 Certification of repairs by Rigby to Sambro Lighthouse Oct. 10, 1794.
1 1794 42 Account—carpenter’s work for repairing Sambro Lighthouse, 1794.
1 1794 43
Letter-Alex. Cocken, Shelburne Nov. 15, 1794. Regarding expenses at
Lighthouse.
1 1794 44 Receipt re: payment by treasury to Alex. Cocken.
1 1794 45 Account of expenses incurred repairing Sambro Lighthouse, 1794.
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1 1794 46 List of Accounts for repairs, done to Sambro Light house, 1794.
1 1794 47
Repairs done to Lighthouse on Sambro Island (Account of expenses
incurred)
1 1795 1 Warrant. Expense, Sambro Lighthouse, Jan. 1, 1795.
1 1795 2 Account. Mason work at Sambro Lighthouse, 1794.
1 1795 3 Warrant. Lighting & Keeping Sambro Lighthouse, Jan. 1, 1795.
1 1795 4 Order to pay iron worker at Sambro Lighthouse. Jan. 5, 1795.
1 1795 5
Order to pay Lawrence, Hartshorne & Co. for materials to repair
Sambro Lighthouse, Jan. 5, 1795.
1 1795 6
Order to pay amount for timber, planks furnished for Sambro
Lighthouse. Jan. 5, 1795.
1 1795 7 Halifax Lighthouse duties in account with the Treasurer, 1795.
1 1795 8
Warrant for services of Keeper of Light House on McNutt’s Island
(March, 21, 1795).
1 1795 9
Warrant. McNutt’s Island-services of Lighthouse Keeper. (March 21,
1795)
1 1795 10 Warrant. Sambro Island. Expenses incurred. (April, 1795)
1 1795 11
Warrant. McNutt’s Island. Allowance for Lighthouse Keeper. (April 1,
1795)
1 1795 12
Warrant. Lighthouse Keeper’s expense. McNutt’s Island. (April 14,
1795)
1 1795 13 Warrant. Sambro Island Lighthouse expenses. (June 30, 1795)
1 1795 14
Warrant. McNutt’s Island. Allowance for lighthouse Keeper. (June 30,
1795)
1 1795 15
Letter from Alex. Cocken, Dec. 26, 1795 re: Neglect at Shelburne
Lighthouse.
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1 1795 16 Warrant. Sambro Island. For lighting the Lighthouse. (Oct. 1, 1795)
1 1795 17
Warrant. McNutt’s Island. For Attending & Lighting the light (Oct. 1,
1795)
1 1796 1
Warrant. For attending and lighting the McNutt’s Island Lighthouse
(Jan. 1, 1796)
1 1796 1a Warrant. Sambro Island. For lighting Lighthouse. (Jan. 1, 1796)
1 1796 2 Halifax Lighthouse in account with the Treasurer, Feb. 29, 1796.
1 1796 3 Warrant. McNutt’s Island Lighthouse. Attending light.(April 1, 1796)
1 1796 4 Warrant. Sambro Island. Lighting Lighthouse. (April 1, 1796)
1 1796 5 Account for repairing Sambro Lighthouse. Sept. 22, 1796.
1 1796 6 Warrant. McNutt’s Island. Attending Light. (Oct. 1, 1796)
1 1796 7 Warrant .McNutt’s Island. Attending Light. Dec. 31, 1796.
1 1796 8 Warrant. Sambro Island. Attending Light. Dec. 31, 1796.
1 1797 1 Warrant. Repairs at Sambro Light house. Jan. 26, 1797.
1 1797 2 Warrant. Repairs at Sambro Lighthouse. Jan. 26, 1797.
1 1797 3 Accounts & receipts regarding Shelburne Lighthouse. 1797.
1 1797 3a
Warrants concerning Sarnbro Island Lighthouse repairs made,
lighting. Feb. - July 1796.
1 1797 3b Warrant. McNutt’s Island. Lighting Lighthouse, July 1, 1796
1 1797 4 Warrant. McNutt’s Island. Lighting Lighthouse. April 1, 1797.
1 1797 5 Warrant. Sambro Island. Lighting Lighthouse. April 1, 1797.
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1 1797 6
Warrant. McNutt’s Island. Making a road & repairs on Lighthouse, April
11, 1797.
1 1797 7 Receipts for work done on Shelburne Lighthouse, 1797
1 1797 8 Voucher for the Expenditures of repairing Sambro Lighthouse, 1797.
1 1797 9
Explanatory Letters by Alex. Cocken on work done on Shelburne
Lighthouse, Aug-Nov. 1797.
1 1797 10 Voucher for expenditures in repairing Shelburne Lighthouse, 1797.
1 1797 11 Warrant. McNutt’s Island (Shelburne). Attending Light (July 1, 1797).
1 1797 12 Warrant. Sambro Island. Lighting lighthouse. (July 1, 1797).
1 1797 13 Warrant. McNutt’s Island. A1owance for fuel. (July 17, 1797).
1 1797 14 Warrant. Sambro Light house. Allowance for oil, fuel (July 17, 1797)
1 1797 15
Warrant. McNutt’s Island. Sunday expenditures for Lighthouse (July
17, 1797)
1 1797 16
Warrant. McNutt’s Island. Attending & Lighting the Lighthouse. Oct. 2,
1797.
1 1797 17
Warrant. Sum for making repairs to the lighthouses as may be
necessary. (Oct. 10, 1797.).
2 1798 1 Warrant. Sambro Island. Lighting Lighthouse. Jan. 1, 1798.
2 1798 2 Warrant. McNutt’s Island. Lighting Lighthouse. Jan. 1, 1798.
2 1798 3 Warrant. McNutt’s Island. Lighting Lighthouse. April 2, 1798.
2 1798 4 Warrant. Sambro Island. Lighting Lighthouse. April 2, 1798.
2 1798 5
Repairs & expenses at Sambro Island, 1798 : warrants accounts,
1etter.
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2 1798 6 Warrant. Sambro Island. Lighting Lighthouse. July 2, 1798.
2 1798 7 Warrant. McNutt’s Island. Attending & Lighting the light. July 2, 1798.
2 1798 8 Warrant. Sambro Island. Attending The Light. Oct. 1, 1798.
2 1798 9 Warrant. McNutt’s Island. Attending the light. Oct. 1, 1798.
2 1799 1 Warrant. McNutt’s Island. Attending the light. Jan. 1, 1799.
2 1799 2 Warrant. Sambro Island. Lighting the Light. Jan. 1, 1799.
2 1799 3
Papers concerning Sambro Island Lighthouse, 1799: warrants,
receipts, account of repairs and expenses.
2 1799 4 Warrant. Sambro Island Lighthouse. Lighting. April 1, 1799.
2 1799 5
Warrant. McNutt’s Island Lighthouse (Shelburne) Lighting July 1,
1799.
2 1799 6
Instructions on warrant due June 30, 1799 from Alex. Cocken (June
21, 1799)
2 1799 7
Account to John Anderson of mason work done on Government
bldgs. & warrant to same.
2 1799 8
Sambro Lighthouse. Account of repairs and warrant for carpenter’s
work done on Lighthouse as per account, Oct. 1, 1799.
2 1799 9
Warrant. Sum to former Keeper of Lighthouse on Sambro Island for
his relief. Oct. 1, 1799.
2 1799 10 Warrant. McNutt’s Island. Lighting the light. Oct. 1799.
2 1799 11
Warrant. Shelburne (McNutt’s Island) Lighthouse. Sum to Keeper for
his .services Dec. 31, 1799. Also letter from Alex. Cocken concerning
warrant.
2 1799 12
Warrant. Sambro Island. Sum for services of Mrs. Phoebe Mordy in
lighting the light. Dec. 31, 1799.
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2 1800 1
Instructions from A. Cocken, March 1, 1800. concerning materials
needed for Shelburne
2 1800 2
Further reminder from A. Cocken concerning materials needed at
Shelburne. June 26, 1800.
2 1800 3
Receipt from Michael Wallace for a sum to be delivered to A. Cocken
at Shelburne, July 4, 1800.
2 1800 4
Letter of instructions regarding warrant from Alex Cocken, March 1,
1800. Warrant to Cocken for services in lighting. Light on McNutt’s
Island. (March 31, 1800)
2 1800 5
Warrant. Sambro Island Lighthouse. to pay sum to keeper for services
(March 21, 1800)
2 1800 6
Warrant. Sambro Island Lighthouse. For lighting Lighthouse. (July 1,
1800).
2 1800 7 Warrant. For repairs to the two lighthouses. (July 31, 1800)
2 1800 8 Warrant. Sambro Island Lighthouse. To Keeper of Light (July 1, 1800)
2 1800 9
Warrant. McNutt’s Lighthouse. For Services of contract of lighting the
Lighthouse. (Sept. 30, 1800).
2 1800 10
Warrant. Sambro Island. Services of contract of lighting Lighthouse.
(Sept. 30, 1800).
2 1801 11 Warrant. Sambro Island. for lighting Lighthouse. (Jan. 1, 1801).
2 1801 12 Warrant. McNutt’s Island. For lighting Lighthouse. (Jan. 1, 1801).
2 1801 13 Warrant. Halifax Harbour Lighthouse. Lighting. (July 1, 1801).
2 1801 14 Warrant. Shelburne Lighthouse. Lighting. (July 1, 1801).
2 1801 15 Warrant. For lighting Lighthouse on Sambro’s Island. (Oct. 1, 1801)
2 1801 16
Warrant. For Glassing lamps at Sambro Island Lighthouse. (July 20,
1801).
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2 1801 17
Warrant. For articles supplied to Shelburne Lighthouse. (July 20,
1801).
2 1801 18
Warrant. For lamps, etc. supplied to Shelburne Lighthouse. (July 20,
1801).
2 1801 19 Warrant. For lighting McNutt’s Island Lighthouse. (Oct. 1, 1801).
2 1801 20
Letters from Matthew Pinnell on glass needed for Sambro Lighthouse
(Aug. -Sept. 1801).
2 1801 21
Letter from Alex Cocken, June 24, 1801, on need for a new road across
McNutt’s Island.
2 1802 22
Accounts for repairs at Sambro Lighthouse, 1801 & receipts of
payments, 1802.
2 1802 23
Letters of warrant concerning funds to erect a lighthouse near the gut
of Annapolis. (1801—1802).
2 1802 24
Warrant. For supporting and lighting Sambro Island Lighthouse. (Jan.
1, 1802).
2 1802 25
Warrant. For lighting the Lighthouse on McNutt’s Island. (Jan. 1,
1802)
2 1802 26 Warrant. Sambro Island. For lighting the Lighthouse (April 1, 1802).
2 1802 27
Warrant. McNutt’s Island (Shelburne)-for lighting Lighthouse. (April 1,
1802).
2 1802 28 Accounts for the repair of Shelburne Lighthouse. (1802)
2 1802 29 Warrant for lighting the Lighthouse at Sambro (July 1, 1802)
2 1802 30 Warrant for lighting the Lighthouse on McNutt’s Island. (July 1, 1802)
2 1802 31
Warrant for sundry materials, repairs, to Sambro Lighthouse, (April 22,
1802)
2 1802 32
Warrant to pay for attending & lighting Sambro Island Lighthouse.
(Oct. 1, 1802).
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2 1802 33
Warrant to pay for attending Lighthouse on McNutt’s Island (Oct. 1,
1802)
2 1803 34 Warrant. for Lighting Sambro Island. (Jan. 1, 1803).
2 1803 35 Warrant. For Lighting McNutt’s Island. (Jan. 10, 1803)
2 1803 36
Warrant. For supporting & lighting Lighthouse on Sambro Island (April
1, 1803).
2 1803 37 Warrant. Lighting McNutt’s Island. April 1, 1803.
2 1804 38 Warrant. For Lighting Sambro Island. (Jan. 2, 1804).
2 1803 39 Warrant. Lighting Sambro. (Oct. 1, 1803).
2 1803 40 Warrant. Lighting McNutt’s Island. (Oct. 1, 1803).
2 1803 41
Warrant. For articles supplied to Shelburne Lighthouse. (Aug. 19,
1803).
2 1803 42 Warrant. For lighting Sambro Island Lighthouse. July 1, 1803.
2 1803 43
Warrant and letter concerning Lighting Shelburne Lighthouse. (July 1,
1803).
2 1804 44 Warrant. For lighting McNutt’s Island, Shelburne. (Jan. 2, 1804)
2 1804 45 Warrant. For lighting Sambro Island. (April 2, 1804).
2 1804 46
Warrant. For lighting McNutt’s Island with accompanying letter, (April
2, 1804).
2 1804 47 Warrant. For lighting Sambro Island. (July 2, 1804).
2 1804 48
Warrant and letter concerning McNutt’s Island Lighthouse (July 2,
1804).
2 1804 49 Warrant. For lighting Sambro Island Lighthouse. (Oct. 1, 1804)
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2 1804 50
Account of the Lighthouse Commissioners for building a Keeper’s
House & supplies to the Lighthouse in the Gut of Annapolis (June 20,
1804).
2 1804 51
Order to pay salary to Keeper of Lighthouse at Annapolis Basin (Dec.
19, 1804)
2 1805 1 Warrant for lighting Shelburne Lighthouse (April 1, 1805).
2 1805 2 Warrant for duties re: Shelburne Lighthouse (July 1, 1805).
2 1805 3 Warrant for lighting Sambro Island (Aug. 17, 1805).
2 1805 4 Warrant for lighting Sambro Island (Aug. 17, 1805).
2 1805 5 Warrant for lighting Sambro Island (Jan. 1, 1805).
2 1805 6
Warrant and letters concerning payment for lighting McNutt’s Island
(Oct. 1, 1805) and warrant to same gentlemen for lighting lighthouse
at entrance of Shelburne Harbour (Jan. 1, 1805).
2 1805 7 Warrant for lighting Sambro Island (By contract) (Oct. 9, 1805).
2 1805 8 Warrant for lighting Sambro Island (Dec. 31, 1805).
2 1805 9 Warrant for duties at Shelburne Lighthouse. (Oct. 1, 1805).
2 1805 10
Warrant for keeping and maintaining the Shelburne Lighthouse.
Accompanying letter. (Dec. 31, 1805).
2 1806 1
Warrant to pay for sundry disbursements by Commissioners for
Annapolis Lighthouse (Jan. 31, 1806).
2 1806 2
Warrant to pay keeper of Annapolis Basin Lighthouse for services
(Jan. 31, 1806).
2 1806 3
Letter and warrant concerning payment to Keeper of Annapolis
Lighthouse for year 1805. (Jan. 31, 1806)
2 1806 4
Order to pay balance due Wm. Muir on Lighthouse Accounts (Digby,
March 15, 1806).
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2 1806 5
Warrant to pay the above sum due (being the balance of his account
for supplies to Annapolis Lighthouse). March 31, 1806.
2 1806 6
Commissioners order to pay salary to Keeper of Annapolis Basin
Lighthouse (April 16, 1806).
2 1806 7
Order by commissioners to pay Keeper of Annapolis Basin Lighthouse
(Jan. 22, 1806).
2 1806 8
Order by Commissioners to pay Keeper of Annapolis Light (July 15,
1806)
2 1806 9 Warrant to pay for lighting Sambro (April 10, 1806).
2 1806 10
Warrant and letter concerning payment for lighting Shelburne (May
18, 1806).
2 1806 11
Letter concerning warrant for keeping & maintaining Shelburne
Lighthouse (July 24, 1806).
2 1806 12 Warrant to pay for lighting Shelburne (July 1, 1806)
2 1806 13 Warrant to pay Keeper of Annapolis Lighthouse (July 31, 1806)
2 1806 14
Warrant to pay for lighting Sambro Island as per contract (July 1,
1806).
2 1806 15
Letter, receipt and warrant concerning payment for lighting Shelburne
Lighthouse (Oct, 1806).
2 1806 16 Warrant to pay for lighting Sambro Island per contract. (Oct.1 1806)
2 1806 17
Alexander Cocken’s account for repairs & supplies to Shelburne
Lighthouse (1804-1805).
2 1806 18
Jeremiah Vickers account of lamps supplied Sambro Lighthouse in
1806.
2 1806 19
Receipt, warrant concerning payment for lighting Sambro Island (Dec.
31, 1806).
2 1806 20
Letter, warrant concerning keeping & Maintaining Shelburne Light
(Dec. 31, 1806).
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2 1807 1 Order& account concerning Lighthouse at Annapolis (Dec. 4, 1807)
2 1807 2 Order & warrant to pay for lighting Shelburne (April 1, 1807
2 1807 3 Warrant for lighting Sambro. (April 1, 1807).
2 1807 4 Warrant for lighting Sambro (July 1, 1807).
2 1807 5
Warrant for surveying & reporting the existing state & condition of
Lighthouse at Sambro and Shelburne. (July 10, 1807).
2 1807 6
Account for surveying & making estimates of repairs at the
Lighthouse (July 10, 1807).
2 1807 7
Account for advertising contract to build a lighthouse upon Brier
Island (Oct. 29, 1807)
2 1807 8
Account for advertising contracts to build Brier Island Lighthouse
(Oct. 26, 1807).
2 1807 9
Warrant for supporting & lighting Shelburne Lighthouse (July 1, 1807).
Accompanying letter of instructions regarding payment from Alex
Cocken (July 3, 1807).
2 1807 10
Receipt and warrant to pay for lighting McNutt’s Island Lighthouse
(Oct. 1, 1807).
2 1807 11
Receipt of Alex Cocken’s for payment to him for repairs, supplies to
Shelburne Lighthouse (June 10, 1807).
2 1807 12 Treasurer’s account with the Lighthouse (Oct. 31, 1807).
2 1807 13 Warrant to pay for lighting Sambro Island (Oct. 1, 1807).
2 1807 14
Orders to pay various persons for services at Annapolis Lighthouse,
1807, and warrant to pay commissioners of Annapolis Lighthouse for
supplies furnished by them (Oct. 25, 1807).
2 1808 1
Letter from Charles Moirir on the subject of a site for a lighthouse on
Cranberry Island, near Canso.
2 1808 2
Letter from Michael Wallace on subject of a Light house near Gut of
Canso (Dec. 13, 1808).
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2 1808 3
Captain Gustanus Stupart's letter regarding feasibility of a Canso
Lighthouse on Cranberry Island (March 8, 1808).
2 1808 4
Account for building & putting up the lantern on Brier Island
Lighthouse (1809).
2 1808 5
Warrant for expense of a Keeper & supplies, etc. on Annapolis
Lighthouse (March 31, 1808).
2 1808 6 Warrant for lighting Sambro Island (April 1, 1808).
2 1808 7
Warrant & order re: payment for land for Lighthouse on Brier Island
(Oct. 1808)
2 1808 8 Warrant for repairs to McNutt’s Island (Oct. 26, 1808).
2 1808 9
Warrant and receipt re: payment for building the Brier Island
Lighthouse (Oct. 31, 1808).
2 1808 10
Warrant and letter concerning payment for lighting Shelburne (April 1,
1808).
2 1808 11
Letter of instructions & warrant to pay for lighting McNutt’s Island
(July 1, 1808).
2 1808 12 Order & warrant to pay for lighting Sambro Island (July 1, 1808).
2 1808 13 Warrant for lighting the Lighthouse at Sambro Island (Oct. 1, 1808).
2 1808 14
John Howe & Sons’ account for Lighthouse advertisements. (March-
May, 1808).
2 1808 15
Duncan Nicolls’ receipt on account of services at Sambro (Oct. 4,
1808)
2 1808 16 Account against Annapolis Lighthouse (May 10, 1808).
2 1808 17
Order to pay James Olliver for services as Keeper of Annapolis
Lighthouse (April 15, 1808).
2 1808 18
Lighthouse in account current with M. Wallace, Treasurer (Oct. 31,
1808).
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2 1808 19
Order to pay James Olliver part of his salary as Keeper at Annapolis
(1808).
2 1808 20 Order & warrant re: payment for lighting Shelburne (Jan. 1, 1808).
2 1808 21 Warrant for lighting Sambro (Jan. 1, 1808).
2 1808 22 Order & warrant re: payment for lighting McNutt’s Island (Oct. 1, 1808)
2 1809 1 Warrant. Building Brier Island Lighthouse. (Jan.12, 1809).
2 1809 2 Warrant. Repairing McNutt’s Island Lighthouse. (Jan. 13, 1809).
2 1809 3 Warrant & Order. Salary for lighting Shelburne (April 20, 1809)
2 1809 4 Warrant. Lighting Sambro Lighthouse. (April 19, 1809).
2 1809 5 Warrant. Lighting Sambro (July 1, 1809).
2 1809 6 Warrant. Lighting Halifax Lighthouse (Oct. 24, 1809).
2 1809 7 Warrant & Order. Lighting Shelburne (July 1, 1809)
2 1809 8
Order to pay for raising frame of house for Keeper at Brier Island
Light. (Sept. 1809).
2 1809 9
Order to pay balance of contract for building Keeper’s House at Brier
Island (Sept. 1809).
2 1809 10
Receipt re: hire of schooners to take materials for repairs to Sambro
Light. (Aug. 1809).
2 1809 11 Account of cordage of blocks for repairs to Sambro. (Aug. 1809)
2 1809 12 Receipts for labourers’ hire to repair Sambro. (Sept. 6, 1809).
2 1809 13
Pay certificate of ten soldier masons employed repairing Sambro
(Nov. 1809).
2 1809 14 Receipt for pay as a labourer repairing Sambro Light (Sept. 6, 1809)
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2 1809 15
Receipt for hire of schooners to take carpenters to Sambro (Nov. 16,
1809).
2 1809 16
Ceritificate of receipt for pay of two artillery men employed at Sambro
(Nov. 1809).
2 1809 17 Bill for repairing Lantern at Sambro (Nov. 13, 1809).
2 1809 18 Bill for repairing lamp at Sambro (Nov. 23, 1809).
2 1809 19 Account of Iron work done at Sambro (1809).
2 1809 20 Account of Shingles for repairs at Sambro (Aug. 1809).
2 1809 21 Account of white lead, oil, for painting Sambro (Oct. 1809).
2 1809 22 Account of nails, sheet lead, for repairs at Sambro (Oct. 1809)
2 1809 23 Account of pine boards, for repairs at Sambro (Aug. 1809)
2 1809 24 Account of materials & wages repairing Sambro (1809)
2 1809 25
Letter from Jacob Cornewiell on repairs needed at Brier Island,
including details of the buildings, particularly the Keeper's house
(Sept. 29, 1809)
2 1809 26
Instructions re: warrant for payment for maintaining Shelburne
Lighthouse (Oct. 10, 1809)
2 1809 27 Warrant. Lighting Shelburne (Oct. 24, 1809).
2 1809 28
Warrant. Building dwelling house for Keeper at Brier Island (Oct. 31,
1809)
2 1809 29
Receipt for sum for work done & labour performed at Brier Island
(Aug. 4, 1809).
2 1809 30 Warrant for erecting Lantern for Brier Island Light (Oct. 31, 1809)
2 1809 31
Accounts of supplies & payment of Keeper at Brier Island (Nov. 1809—
Nov. 1810)
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2 1809 32 Account for iron work at Brier Island (April 26, 1809).
2 1809 33 Bill for lamps sent to Brier Island (Oct. 23, 1809)
2 1809 34 Receipt for damage at Brier Island Lighthouse (July 12, 1809).
2 1809 35
Account for advertisements for contracts to build Light at Brier’s
Island (Dec. 1809)
2 1809 36 Account for glass & lead for Brier Light. (May 1809)
2 1809 37
Report on contracts for bldg. Keepers’ House at Brier Island (Sept. 29,
1809).
2 1809 38 Account re: building Keeper’s House at Brier Island.
2 1809 39 Account for payment of paint work at Brier Island Sept. 7, 1809.
2 1809 40
Account of sheet lead furnished for Brier Island Lighthouse (Oct.
1809).
2 1809 41
Contract for digging a cellar in Keepers House at Brier Island (Dec. 22,
1809).
2 1809 42 Lighthouse current account to Oct. 31, 1809.
2 1809 43
Warrant & letter concerning Payment for lighting McNutt’s Island
Lighthouse (Jan. 3, 1809).
2 1809 44 Warrant for Lighting Sambro Island Lighthouse (Jan. 3, 1809).
2 1810 1- 3 1-3. Accounts, bills, warrant concerning Sambro Lighthouse (1810)
2 1810 4 -5
4-5. Warrants for keeping & lighting Shelburne Lighthouse (Jan. 17 &
April 9, 1810)
2 1810 6 Warrant for lighting Sambro (April 30, 1810).
2 1810 7 Bill for wire chain furnished to Shelburne Lighthouse (July 30, 1810)
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2 1810 8 Warrant for keeping & lighting McNutt’s Lighthouse (July 10, 1810).
2 1810 9
Warrant for one quarter of a contract for lighting Sambro (Sept. 26,
1810).
2 1810 10
Warrant & instructions re” on quarter of contract for lighting McNutt’s
Island (Oct. 3, 1810).
2 1810 11 Warrant for lighting Sambro (Oct. 3, 1810).
2 1810 12 Bill for Shelburne sand delivered at Sambro (July 1810).
2 1810 13
Bill for building a new dwelling house for the repair of Sambro (Oct. 8,
1810).
2 1810 14-16 Accounts for repairs at Sambro Island, 1810.
2 1810 17-22
Accounts, bills, receipts, etc. Concerning Brier Island Lighthouse,
1810.
2 1810 23
Account of the Light Houses of Sambro, Shelburne, Brier Island, Oct.
1809—Dec. 1810.
2 1811 1
Warrant, instructions. Part of contract for lighting McNutt’s Island.
(April 30, 1811).
2 1811 2 Warrant. For lighting Sambro Island. (Undated).
2 1811 3-4
Warrants for lighting McNutt’s Island (Shelburne) July 4, 1811 and
Sept. 30, 1811.
2 1811 5-7 Warrant. For lighting Sambro light (July, Sept, Dec., 1811).
2 1811 8 Warrant. For lighting McNutt’s Light (Dec. 31, 1811).
2 1811 9 Bill for repairing lamps at Sambro in 1811.
2 1811 10 Bill for repairs to Shelburne Light (Sept. 1811).
2 1811 11-12 Bills concerning Brier Island Light (Jan. 1811— May 1811)
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2 1811 13 Current Lighthouses Account (Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1811).
2 1811 14
Warrant & instructions concerning payment for contract for lighting
McNutt’s Island (Jan. 3, 1811).
2 1811 15 Warrant for lighting Sambro. (Jan. 3, 1811).
3 1812 1
Warrant, receipt re: payment towards bldg. a lighthouse on Coffins
Island, Liverpool. (June 3, 1812).
3 1812 2
Warrant. For support of Sambro & Shelburne Lighthouses (May 2,
1812).
3 1812 3
Receipt, Order, Warrant for Sum towards completing Liverpool
Lighthouse (Sept. 5, 1812).
3 1812 4
Account for building a new lanthorn upon Shelburne Lighthouse
(1813),
3 1812 5- 7 Warrants, for lighting Sambro Light. (April, June, Sept, 1812)
3 1812 8 -11
Warrants, receipts. For maintaining & lighting McNutt’s Island
(Shelburne) April—Dec. 1812.
3 1812 12 -14 Brier Island Lighthouse-Orders, bill (March-June, 1812)
3 1812 15 Bill for glass for Shelburne Light. (Oct. 2, 1812)
3 1812 16 Order re: account of Brier Island Lighthouse (Nov. 1, 1812).
3 1812 17 Bill for lamps for Shelburne Light (Nov. 14, 1812).
3 1812 18 Order re: Brier Island Lighthouse (Dec. 26, 1812).
3 1812 19 Current Lighthouses account. (to Dec. 31, 1812).
3 1812 20 Warrant. For Lighting Sambro lighthouse. (Dec. 31, 1812).
3 1813 1-6
Brier’s Island Light house; order, account for supplying the Lighthouse
in 1813.
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3 1813 7 -14
Bill for paint & oil (Sept. 15, 1813); building a new lantern (expenses);
lighting costs, warrants); bill for putty to glaze a new lantern;
accounts— Shelburne Lighthouse, 1813
3 1813 15 -17
Warrants. For paying sums for lighting Sambro Island (March 31, June
30, Sept. 30, 1813)
3 1813 18 Current account for Lighthouses, to Dec. 31, 1813.
3 1813 19
Coffins’ Island (Liverpool) receipts, warrant for completing Lighthouse
(July 28, 1813).
3 1814 1- 4 Brier’s Island Lighthouse: orders, accounts (1814).
3 1814 5 -13
McNutt’s Island, Shelburne: warrants, receipts, bills, report of James
Leslie of work done at the Lighthouse (Jan. 21, 1814).
3 1814 14 -18 Sambro Light House (Halifax): warrants for sums of lighting, 1814.
3 1814 19 Current lighthouse accounts to Dec 31, 1814
3 1815 1 -6
Brier Island (Annapolis): receipts, accounts for supplies needed,
warrant for lighting, expenses.
3 1815 7 -9
Coffins Island (Liverpool) : warrants for services of commissioners,
sundry articles, etc.
3 1815 10 -14
Cranberry Island (Canso): Receipts, accounts, letter from W.A.
Lockwood reporting Cranberry Island as a site for a lighthouse, which
includes a rough sketch of the island (June 26, 1815).
3 1815 15- 26
McNutt’s Island (Shelburne) : orders, warrants, accounts for repairs,
bills.
3 1815 27 -37
Sambro Island (Halifax): four warrants, bills for building additions,
orders for payments for materials used.
3 1815 38
McNutt’s & Sambro Island: warrant to pay commissioners of the
revenue the balance of expenses incurred by them for lighting Sambro
& McNutt’s (Dec. 13, 1815).
3 1815 39
Cranberry island: Accounts used in buildings materials used, freight,
boards, planks, timber.
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3 1816 1-5
Liverpool Lighthouse: Various orders concerning payment for
shipping funnel & copper van to lighthouse, cost of oil, rope, etc. Also
final account from the Commissioners for furnishing the Liverpool
Lighthouse dated June 28, 1816.
3 1816 6
Bill from Patrick Lanigan for labour hire & erecting frame for
lighthouse at Canso (July-Sept., 1816).
3 1816 7 Sambro lighthouse: account re: freight to Sambro (July 24, 1816).
3 1816 8
Halifax: account of sales of sundries by Messrs. Borne & Dublois on
order of commissioners of the Lighthouse (Sept. 17, 1816)
3 1816 9
Halifax: Bill from the commissioner of the lighthouses to Bome &
Deblois for oil (June 24, 1816).
3 1817 1-14
Annapolis Lighthouse: copy of agreement between the
commissioners for re-building the Lighthouse at Annapolis Gut (May
26, 1817); sketches & plan of lighthouse at the entrance to the
Annapolis Basin; survey on lumber returns, & receipt warrant; bills for
materials used; account of costs towards erecting a building to serve
as a lighthouse to the entrance of Annapolis Basin, 1817.
3 1817 15 -54
Canso (Cranberry Island) : Return of workmen’s time at Cranberry
Island; account for iron work done; receipts; account of nails supplied,
receipts for passage of masons & labourers to & from Canso
Lighthouse & for pay as employees; bill for supplies sent to
Lighthouse, warrant to pay commissioner for building the Lighthouse;
recommendation of Canso; return of articles left at Cranberry Island,
Oct. 18, 1817; various receipts for payment of services rendered; P.
Lanigan’s report on Cranberry Island, Oct. 18, 1817; Account for
ironmongery supplied for Lighthouse in 1817; account of
workmanship done; the Province of N.S. in account with Patrick
Lanigan, Comm. appt’d to build the Lighthouse for Dec. 31, 1817.
3 1817 55-61
Liverpool Lighthouse: Orders to pay for Keepers’ salary; bill; from
commissioners to James McLeod; receipt from commissioners. Bill
from commissioners to James R. Dewolf; payment for a pulley block
for Lighthouse; order to pay sum to James McLeod for attending
Lighthouse (Nov. 20, 1817).
3 1817 62-68
Sambro Island (Halifax) Mostly receipts from various persons paid by
Samuel Cunard for services at Lighthouse.
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3 1817 68a-72
Shelburne Lighthouse: Bill re: oil freight costs, instructions regarding
payment of keeper’s salary, fuel bill, various payment requests &
subsequent receipts.
3 1817 73-74 Canso Lighthouse: Accounts, Aug. 1817.
3 1817 75
Brier's Island Lighthouse. Order to pay salary for upkeep of
Lighthouse. Aug. 12, 1817.
3 1817 76 Point Prim (?) Inventory of Materials on hand, Dec. 1817.
3 1817 77-100
The Commissioners of the Lighthouses in N.S.: Accounts, bills,
warrants, concerning services rendered and repairs done to various
lighthouses in the province.
3 1818 1-3
Digby, receipts for purchase of boards for. the Lighthouse at the
entrance of DigbyHarbour. Aug. & Sept., 1818.
3 1818 4 to 32
Cranberry Island (Canso): receipts, orders, report of completion of the
Lighthouse by John Douglas, Oct., 1818.
3 1818 33-52
Cranberry Island (Canso) : Bills, accounts for iron work done, supplies
for completing the Lighthouse, employee’s wages, transportation.
Some receipts.
3 1819 1
Canso: receipt for commissioner re: superintending the building of the
Lighthouse , April 20 1819
3 1819 2
Shelburne: Quarterly returns of Lighthouse duty collected into the
duties of Shelburne, 1 October 1819 to 1 December 1819
3 1820 1-6
Annapolis Light Houses: accounts of materials (Oil, lime, lumber),
plastering work done, repairing fire places.
3 1820 7 Cranberry Island: Receipt for Keeper’s Salary paid.
3 1820 8 Liverpool Lighthouse: Bill for oil, carrying, lending costs.
3 1820 9 The commissioners of the Lighthouses: account.
3 1821 1-6
Annapolis Lighthouse: Orders to pay for fuel, keeping the Light,
carrying oil & sundry to Lighthouse, Richard Bragg’s account (Keeper).
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3 1821 7-9 Cranberry Island, Canso: receipts for fuel, freight, materials.
3 1821 10-12 Liverpool Lighthouse: receipts for block, freight of oil, paint, nails, etc.
3 1821 13-22
Sambro Lighthouse: Receipts for salary for keeper, freight of oil, cords
of wood, Instructions from keeper re: payment for fuel, salaries, etc.
3 1821 23-41
Papers concerning the commissioners of the Lighthouse of N.S.:
various bills for sent oil, transportation, warrants to pay the
commissioners of the Lighthouses for various services rendered.
3 1822 1-6
Bills (no specific location mentioned) for repairing fire places, storage
of boys’ oil, making case, storage of lamp, paint, cartons, loads of oil,
bonting fire proof slate.
3 1822 7-8
Warrants to pay commissioners for the support and services of the
lighthouses throughout the province.
3 1823 1-8 Annapolis Lighthouse: receipts, bills.
3 1823 9-11
Brier Island: Orders re: payments for keeper’s services, fuel, coasts,
freight of oil and other supplies.
3 1823 12-15
Canso Lighthouse: Bill, receipts for payment of keeper’s salary, fuel,
other supplies.
3 1823 13a-16
Liverpool Lighthouse: receipts, accounts for such expenses as wood
and carriage, painting the Light house and repairing the lantern.
3 1823 17-26
Sambro Lighthouse: Receipts, bills for freight of oil, boarding and
lodging of labourer, carrying stores to Lighthouse, casks of seal oil,
keeper’s salary.
3 1823 27-32
Shelburne Lighthouse: Orders to pay Thomas Crowell for fuel
allowance, Keeper’s salary, account of repair done at Lighthouse, bill
to Alexander Cocken for various repairs done (painting, glass work,
etc).
3 1823 33-46
The Commissioners of the Lighthouses in Nova Scotia Warrants, bills,
accounts of work done at the various lighthouses in 1823, salaries,
receipts.
4 1824 1-9a Annapolis Lighthouse: Vouchers, bills, receipt.
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4 1824 10-12
Brier’s Island: orders to pay for services in tending the Light, receipt
for payment for fuel costs at the Lighthouse.
4 1824 13-14
Canso Lighthouse: receipt for oil freight to Lighthouse, bill to
commissioners for freight of sundries to Canso.
4 1824 15-17
Cranberry Lighthouse: Bills to Patrick Lanigan for salary of Keeper,
miscellaneous expenses such as freight costs, boating down oil to
Lighthouse.
4 1824 18 Liverpool Lighthouse: Account for various expenses.
4 1824 19-22
Sambro Lighthouse: receipts for payments for such things as freight
costs.
4 1824 23-29
Shelburne Lighthouse: Vouchers to Alexander Cocken for fuel
allowance, Charlotte Leslie for Keeper’s salary, Thomas Crowell for
Keeper’s salary, Martin G. Black’s salary, account of sundry expenses.
4 1824 30-51
General: The Commissioners of the Lighthouses in N.S.: Bills for
freight of oil & other stores from Halifax to Shelburne & Brier’s Island
Lighthouses; for making springs and boats(?) and repairing; for casks
of seal oil; storage and truckage of oil; pine boards & other materials;
receipt for payment of one half year’s salary due keeper’s general
accounts for the commissioners for the servicing of the several
lighthouses throughout the province.
4 1825 1-2
Annapolis Lighthouse: Receipts from Samuel Cunard for fuel
allowance payment; for keeping Annapolis Light.
4 1825 3-7
Brier Island: Instructions re: payment to William Wallace, Esq. Orders
to pay Charles and Edward Jones for fuel, also purchase of a boat for
the use of the Lighthouse, order to pay keeper’s salary.
4 1825 8-10
Canso Lighthouse: Vouchers to Frances Murray for purchase of seal
oil, sundries for the Lighthouse
4 1825 11-12
Liverpool: receipt for payment of keeper’s salary bill for purchase of
pine board, freight charges, carpentry work, carrying out from Harbour
to Lighthouse, wood and truckage, etc.
4 1825 13-17
Sambro Lighthouse: receipts for payment of keeper’s salary, freight
bills, materials bought from Boggs & Hartshorne for the Lighthouse.
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4 1825 18-24
Shelburne: itemized bills for work done on Light and materials
purchased; receipt.
4 1825 25-31
General: The Commissioners of the Lighthouse for N.S.: receipts,
warrant, account.
4 1826 1 Annapolis: Receipt for part of Keeper’s salary.
4 1826 2-4
Brier Island: Orders to pay Messrs. Jones for services keeping the
light; receipt for payment of fuel allowance.
4 1826 5-8 Canso Lighthouse: Receipts, bill.
4 1826 9-13 Liverpool: receipts, bills for repairs, work done.
4 1826 14-16 Sambro Lighthouse: receipts.
4 1826 17-22 Shelburne Lighthouse: receipts, itemized bill.
4 1826 23-31
General; The Commissioners of the Lighthouse; bills, itemized
accounts of costs maintaining the several lighthouses in Nova Scotia;
warrant.
4 1827 1-3 Mauger’s Beach: Bills (Itemized) re: materials used at Lighthouse.
4 1827 4-6
General: The Commissioners of the Lighthouse: warrant to pay
commissioners for services of the Lighthouses in the province; bill for
hire of boat and repairing same.
4 1828 1 Mauger’s Beach: bill.
4 1828 2-5 Miscellaneous bills and accounts, no specific location.
4 1829 1
Mauger’s Beach: Warrant to pay commissioners of the Lighthouses
for expenses incurred in erecting the Lighthouse.
4 1829 2-5
General: The Commissioners of the Lighthouses: warrants, bills for
repairs, supplies, salaries.
4 1830 1-23
Receipts from Digby, Brier island, Canso, Maugher's Beach, Sambro,
and Shelburne. Commissioners of Light Houses.
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4 1831 24-29 Receipts from Seal Island, Saint Paul's Island, Miscellaneous
4 1832 30-99
Receipts from Annapolis, Brier Island, Canso, Canso island, Liverpool,
Louisburg, Low Point, Meagher's Beach, Sambro, Seal Island,
Shelburne, Saint Paul's Island, Miscellaneous
4 1833 100-161
Receipts from Cross Island, Louisburg, Low Point, Pictou, Shelburne,
Miscellaneous
4 1834 162-233
Receipts for Annapolis, Brier island, Canso, Cross island, Liverpool,
Louisburg, Low Point, Maugher's Beach, Pictou, Sambro,
Miscellaneous
4 1834 234-289
Receipts for Sambro, Seal Island, Shelburne, Saint Paul's Island,
Miscellaneous
4 1835 290-422
Receipts for Annapolis, Brier Island, Canso, Cross Island, Digby,
Liverpool, Low Point, Maugher's Beach, Pictou, Sambro, Seal Island,
Shelburne, Miscellaneous
5 1836 423-510
Receipts for Annapolis, Brier Island, Canso, Cross Island, Digby,
Liverpool, Low Point, Meagher's Beach, Pictou, Sambro, Seal Island,
Shelburne, Wedge island, Miscellaneous
5 1837 511-621
Receipts for Annapolis, Brier Island, Canso, Liverpool, Low Point,
Maugher's Beach, Pictou, Sambro, Shelburne, Wedge island,
Miscellaneous
5 1838 622-716
Receipts for Annapolis, Barrington, Brier Island, Canso, Cross Island,
Devil's Island, Liverpool, Low Point, Maugher's Beach, Pictou, Sambro,
Seal Island, Scattarie, Shelburne, Saint Paul's Island, Wedge island,
Miscellaneous
5 1839 717
Notes on the inspection of light houses across the province by Jacob
Miller
5 1839 718-811
Receipts for Annapolis, Brier Island, Canso, Cross Island, Liverpool,
Low Point, Maugher's Beach, Pictou, Sambro, Seal Island, Scattarie,
Shelburne, Saint Paul's Island, Yarmouth, Miscellaneous
5 1839 812-840 Cross Island, Yarmouth, Miscellaneous
5 1840 1- 9
Annapolis Lighthouse: Receipts, bills for freight of sundries to the
Lighthouse, repairing lamp, travelling expenses, etc.
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5 1840 10-19
Brier Island: Orders to pay Charles Jones, Esq. for keeping the Light,
for dwelling house being erected; voucher regarding the freight
expenses, bill for shingles, nails, hinges, oil and expenses in repairing
to Lighthouse.
5 1840 20-28
Canso Lighthouse: receipts, bills, concerning Keeper’s salary, freight
costs, painting the Lighthouse, etc.
5 1840 29-30
Liverpool Lighthouse: Vouchers, bills for Keeper’s salary, supplying
wood for the use of the Lighthouse.
5 1840 31-34
Maugher’s Beach: receipts, account of work to be done at the
Lighthouse, bill for wood supplied the Lighthouse, keeper’s salary.
5 1840 35-44
Pictou: orders for commissioners to pay keeper’s salary, fuel
allowance, bills for freight costs, work & materials needed.
5 1840 45-48
Sambro Island: receipt, bills for keeper’s salary oil shipment, freight of
11 empty casks from Sambro.
5 1840 49-50 Seal Island: Freight of barrels, keeper’s salary (Bill)
5 1840 51 Shelburne: bill to pay A. Cocken for keeper’s salary.
5 1840 52-84
St. Pauls Island: Voucher, bills, receipts for four goats, superintendent
salary, labourer’s salary, fuel allowance, services of labourers, freight
costs, various sundries needed.
5 1840 85-96
Yarmouth: Bills, orders to pay for building contract, repairs, keeper’s
salary, furnishing the Lighthouse boat with sails, fuel, sundries
supplied the Lighthouse and work done at the station.
5 1840 97-101
Cross Island: Bills, receipts for keeper’s salary lumber for the use of
the Lighthouse, labourer’s salary for three days’ work at the House
belonging to the Cross Island Light; freight of 14 casks of oil from
Halifax to Cross Island.
5 1840 102-115
Miscellaneous: bills, receipts, concerning various lighthouses in the
province; itemized account of expenses of the commissioners of the
Lighthouse for freight of oil, sundries to various Lighthouses and
expenses of hire of a vessel making a survey of sites for a lighthouse
at the Gut of Canso, also between Canso and Halifax, and the Head of
the Bay of Fundy; itemized accounts of expenses incurred at the
various Lighthouses for the year.
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6 1841 1 -6
Canso: bills, orders to pay for advertising contracts for plane,
elevations, specifications of a building intended for lighthouse to
Canso and Bay of Fundy, letter concerning land for1ighthouse bill for
hire of a vessel employed on survey of coasts in Bay of St. George and
Gut of Canso for selecting a site for a lighthouse.
6 1841 7
Liverpool: bill for various necessities; painting the lighthouse, re-
glazing and painting the lantern and corridor sashes, etc.
6 1841 8
The Low Point Lighthouse Establishment; itemized account of work
done, labour expenses, etc.
6 1841 9 Parrsboro: Order to pay Miss Ann Grove £25 for purchase of land.
6 1841 10-16
Partridge Island: Bills, orders for advertising for tenders for lighthouse
for framing plans and copies of plans; contract for two Lighthouses
6 1841 17-19
Miscellaneous: Payment for lanterns, etc. for advertisement for
tenders for two lighthouses and building them at Canso, Partridge
Island, itemized account of materials needed, expenses for new
Lighthouses.
6 1842 1-3
Annapolis: receipts for keeper’s salary payment and fuel allowance;
bill for oil freight costs.
6 1842 4-16
Canso: Orders to pay various persons for boat for Lighthouse,
labourer’s wages, keeper’s salary, freight of sundries, fuel, freight of oil
and stores; itemized account of materials needed for completing gut
of Canso Lighthouse.
6 1842 17
Canso and Louisburg: Expenditures for building Lighthouses at Canso
and Louisburg.
6 1842 18-21
Liverpool: Orders to pay various individuals for supplying wood for the
use of the Liverpool Lighthouse, keeper’s salary; receipt from the
commissioners a sum being the railing charge to Liverpool and freight
to Halifax of a box of lamps & reflectors for the Lighthouses & Royal
Mail Steamer, Arcadie; account of materials needed for cleaning the
lamp, etc.
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6 1842 22-33
Louisburg: Bills, orders, to various persons to -such things as
purchase of barrels, hire of schooner to carry materials to the
Lighthouse; making a buoy for Louisburg beacon, boom, bolt ring,
chain, etc. morning stone & shackle, freight of materials needed for
Light, itemized accounts of materials needed for completing
Louisburg Lighthouse.
6 1842 34-37
Pictou: Orders to pay for workmen’s salary, Keeper’s salary, fuel
allowance; bill for freight of oil and stores to Pictou Lighthouse.
6 1842 38-39
Sambro: Receipt for conveying from Halifax to Sambro Lighthouse,
bill for freight of empty casks from Sambro Island.
6 1842 40-42 Seal Island: Orders to pay for Keeper’s salary, freight.
6 1842 43-49
Scatarie Island: bills & orders for advertising in the Cape Breton
Advocate. Shipment of lamp glasses imported from Boston; Keeper’s
salary; itemized account of materials needed at Scatarie and costs.
6 1842 50-59
St. Paul’s Island: Orders to pay for Keeper’s salary; superintendent’s
salary; fuel allowances; lamps for St. Paul’s, truckage and freight of
lamps on steamer Colombia; freight of oil and stores; itemized
account of materials (such as oil) needed for St. Paul’s.
6 1842 60-62
St. Paul’s and Scatarie: Receipts for invoices rendered to
commissioners of the lighthouses; for ammunition for lighthouses
established at St. Paul & Scatarie; account of ammunition needed at
St. Paul’s & Scatarie.
6 1842 63-65
Shelburne: Receipt for payment of keeper’s salary, bills for freight of
25 casks from Shelburne Lighthouse to Halifax, freight of oil and
stores to Shelburne.
6 1842 66-72
Yarmouth: Order to pay Keeper’s salary; for boat furnished Yarmouth
Light Station; for repairs at Lighthouse Dwelling House; bills for
purchase of such things as working stove and pipe, water casks,
repairs to lamps, hauling oil & stores from landing to Lighthouse; 21
days work of carpenters, purchase of shingles, spruce lumber, door
lock, etc.
6 1842 73-81
Miscellaneous papers: bills and receipts for various Lighthouses in
the province; itemized accounts of the Lighthouse commissioners for
the year.
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6 1843 1-4
Annapolis: Receipts, orders to pay for Keeper’s salary, fuel allowance,
expenses incurred by keeper, hauling 3 loads of oil, boards.
6 1843 5-11
Brier Island: Order to pay bills, receipts, for Keeper’s salary, fuel
allowance, freight landed at Lighthouse, for a whale boat, Russian
Iron, freight of oil.
6 1843 12 -18
Canso: Receipts, orders to pay for Keeper’s salary; freight of oil &
goods to Canso, also full & 16 empty casks; fuel allowances, cost of
trucking up the oil; freight of goods and sundries from Halifax.
6 1843 19-22
Cross Island: Receipt, Orders for Keeper’s salary, freight of oil & stores
to light house, fuel allowance.
6 1843 23-29
Liverpool: receipts, bills, orders to pay for Keeper’s salary; for finding
wood for the use of the Lighthouse for the year 1843, for hauling
stores from the Harbour for the Lighthouse; 12 casks oil & stores for
Liverpool Lighthouse & 23 empty casks from Lighthouse, shipping
charges on 5 cows from Halifax, sundry expenses.
6 1843 30-35
Louisburg: Orders to pay bills, for advertising for tender at Louisburg;
Keeper’s salary; freight of sundries.
6 1843 36-38
Low Point Lighthouse: receipts, orders for Keeper’s salary; freight of
oil and stores.
6 1843 39-43a
Maugher’s Beach: Orders, receipts for Keeper’s salary, supply of wood,
freight of oil and stores to the Lighthouse, for sundry jobs at
Lighthouse cutting out stove pipes, etc.
6 1843 44-48
Pictou: Orders to pay for keeper’s salary, freight of oil, fuel allowance,
freight charge on 12 empty casks to Pictou.
6 1843 49-63
St. Paul’s Island: Orders, receipts, bills for Keeper’s salary, fuel
allowance, freight of stores, fine life preserver lifejackets, itemized
account of materials needed for Lighthouse.
6 1843 64-80a
Scattarie: Order, receipts for fuel expenses, salaries, life preserver
jackets, freight of sundries food supplies, itemized account of
expenses & materials needed.
6 1843 81a-81b
St. Paul’s and Scattarie: receipt for payment of sum for services
rendered to the commissioners; account of materials used at
Lighthouses.
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6 1843 82-88
Shelburne: Orders to pay Keeper’s salary, fuel allowance, freight costs
(of casks, etc.) repairs done at Lighthouse.
6 1843 89-94
Sambro: Receipts, bills, for Keeper’s salary, 24 cords wood delivered
to Sambro Lighthouse; freight of oil, planks & timber, sundry jobs at
Lighthouse; freight of 10 casks of oil.
6 1843 95 -102
Yarmouth. Receipts & Orders to pay for Keeper’s salary, fuel, freight of
oil & stores; various materials needed & jobs done at Lighthouse, for
carrying casks of oil.
6 1843 103-133
Miscellaneous: Various bills, orders, receipts and accounts for the
various lighthouses for such things as the coast of sugar, potatoes
and eggs, plate glass, life preserver jackets; a boat, keeper’s salaries,
labourers’ pay, painting supplies, seal oil, itemized account of the
commissioners month by month, for the various lighthouses in the
province.
6 1844 1-3 Annapolis: Keeper’s salary, freight of oil & stores.
6 1844 4-5 Brier Island: Keeper’s services, fuel.
6 1844 6-13
Canso: Keeper’s salary, trucking the oil to the Lighthouse; pine &
spruce wood; work done to Lighthouse and materials used.
6 1844 14-17
Cranberry Island: bolts & nuts, cedar shingles, 23 days’ work by
labourer; freight of sundries. Keeper’s sa1ary.
6 1844 18-21 Cross Island: Keeper’s salary, freight of oil and stores.
6 1844 22-24 Liverpool: Keeper’s salary; freight of oil and stores.
6 1844 25-32.
Low Point: Keeper’s salary, freight of oil and stores, supplies furnished
the lighthouse, 128 days of carpenter work.
6 1844 33-43
Louisburg: Keeper’s salary, small boat, sundries for the use of the
lighthouse, freight from Louisburg to Halifax; 1300 feet of pine;
inserting notice of lighthouse at North Entrance in newspapers.
6 1844 44-48 Maugher’s Beach: 127 ft. of spruce, freight of oil, fuel, Keeper’s salary.
6 1844 49-56
Pictou: Keeper’s salary, fuel allowance, cooking stove for lighthouse,
labourer’s pay, freight of one stove and pipes to Pictou from Halifax.
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6 1844 57-72
St. Paul’s Island: Keeper’s salary, boat ‘(Purchase of); fuel allowance
for one year; materials needed for lighthouse: sails, cedar shingles;
spruce & pine wood; timber, anchor; chains.
6 1844 73-82
Sambro: Keeper’s salary, freight of oil and stores twelve cords of
wood, sundry jobs
6 1844 83-92
Scattarie: Coal money, fuel allowance, 20 pairs of trousers; medicine
chest, lamp glasses, box for packing; a cooking stove, notice of
trespassers.
6 1844 93-94 Seal Island: Keeper’s Salary, fuel.
6 1844 95-100 Shelburne: Keeper’s salary, fuel allowance, repairs & materials.
6 1844 101-108
Yarmouth: fuel allowance, Keeper’s salary; screws, hinges, nails,
portage, blacksmith’s work done; hauling oil and stores from landing.
6 1844 109-138
Miscellaneous: Commissioners of the Lighthouses & the various
lighthouses in the province:, cost of freight of oil, repairs done, and
materials needed at same for 1844, current accounts included.
6 1845 1-3a
Annapolis: For Keeper’s salary, fuel allowance, loading bill, eleven
casks seal oil and other stores.
6 1845 4-10
Brier Island: For freight of 30 empty casks, etc. painting the lighthouse
and dwelling houses, stove and apparatus furnished to the lighthouse
and dwelling house, fuel allowance, keeper’s services.
6 1845 11-24
Canso, Cranberry Island: Keeper’s salary, boat, pair of oars, sail,
shipment of oil, lead, paint brushes, lamp glasses, etc. trucking up the
oil and other stores; building the beacon on Hope Island and painting
the same twice, 21 packages of lamps, reflectors, etc.
6 1845 25-27 Cross Island: Freight for bell, keeper’s salary, fuel allowance.
6 1845 28-31 Liverpool: Keeper’s salary, freight of oil and stores, wood.
6 1845 32-40
Louisburg and Low Point: for bolts and rings, smoke pipe, Keeper’s
salary and fuel allowance; making a porch and railing for Louisburg
Lighthouse; freight of boxes, lamps, glasses; freight of oil and other
stores.
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6 1845 41-44 Maugher’s Beach Keeper’s salary, supply of fuel, freight of oil.
6 1845 45-48 Pictou: fuel allowance, Keeper’s salary, oil and stores.
6 1845 49-53
Sambro: Keeper’s salary, freight of oil and stores freight of 24 casks
of wood to Sambro Lighthouse freight of 32 oil casks from Sambro.
6 1845 54-58
Seal Island: Keeper’s salary, two stoves (1 franklin, 1 Cooking), freight
of oil and stores to Seal Island, other expenses.
6 1845 59-62
Shelburne: Keeper’s salary, fuel allowance, freight of 20 empty casks
from Shelburne; freight of sundries to Shelburne; Keeper’s salary.
6 1845 63-86 St. Paul’s and Scattarie: Keeper’s salary, paint, oil, fuel allowance.
6 1845 87-97
Yarmouth: fuel allowance, Keeper’s services, seal oil, repairs on
machinery, etc. for bringing 90 oil casks from Yarmouth.
6 1845 98-119
Miscellaneous: papers of the commissioners of the Lighthouses,
various bills, orders concerning miscellaneous lighthouses in the
province.
6 1846 1-160 Records of Miscellaneous Nova Scotia Light Houses
6 1847 1-15 Records of Miscellaneous Nova Scotia Light Houses
6 1848 1
St. Paul’s and Scattarie, Yarmouth Lighthouses: some expenses
incurred.
6 1849 1-4 Warrants to the Commissioners of the Lighthouses.
7 1840 1
Return of monies received at Afloat for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 2
Return of monies received at Amherst for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 3
Return of monies received at Annapolis for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 4
Return of monies received at Antigonish for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
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7 1840 5
Return of monies received at Argyle for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 6
Return of monies received at Arichat for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 7
Return of monies received at Barrington for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 8
Return of monies received at Brier lsland for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 9
Return of monies received at Canso for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 10
Return of monies received at Cornwallis for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 11
Return of monies received at Digby for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 12
Return of monies received at Gut of Canso for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 13
Return of monies received at Gut of Canso for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 14
Return of monies received at Guysboro for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 15
Return of monies received at Bays & Coasts for support of light
house. Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and
tonnage.
7 1840 16
Return of monies received at Halifax for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 17
Return of monies received at Liverpool for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 18
Return of monies received at Lunenburg for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 19
Return of monies received at Pugwash for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
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7 1840 20
Return of monies received at Shelburne for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 21
Return of monies received at Sydney for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 22
Return of monies received at Weymouth for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 23
Return of monies received at Windsor for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1840 24
Return of monies received at Yarmouth for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1841 No Documents for this year.
7 1842 25
Return of monies received at Shelburne for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1842 26
Return of monies received at Westport for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1843 27
Return of monies received at Amherst for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1843 28
Return of monies received at Annapolis for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1843 29
Return of monies received at Antigonish for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1843 30
Return of monies received at Argyle for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1843 31
Return of monies received at Arichat for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1843 32
Return of monies received at Barrington for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1843 33
Return of monies received at Canso for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
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7 1843 34
Return of monies received at Cornwallis for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1843 35
Return of monies received at Digby for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1843 36
Return of monies received at Guysborough for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1843 37
Return of monies received at Halifax for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1843 38
Return of monies received at Liverpool for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1843 39
Return of monies received at Londonderry for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1843 40
Return of monies received at Lunenburg for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1843 41
Return of monies received at Port Hood for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1843 42
Return of monies received at Shelburne for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1843 43
Return of monies received at Sydney for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1843 44
Return of monies received at Tatamagouche for support of light
house. Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and
tonnage.
7 1844 45
Return of monies received at Brier Island for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1844 46
Return of monies received at Weymouth for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1844 47
Return of monies received at Wilmot for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1844 48
Return of monies received at Windsor for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
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7 1844 49
Return of monies received at Yarmouth for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1844 50
Return of monies received at Amherst for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1844 51
Return of monies received at Annapolis for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1844 52
Return of monies received at Arichat for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1844 53
Return of monies received at Canso for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1844 54
Return of monies received at Cornwallis for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1844 55
Return of monies received at Digby for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1844 56
Return of monies received at Guysborough for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1844 57
Return of monies received at Halifax for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1844 58
Return of monies received at Liverpool for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1844 59
Return of monies received at Londonderry for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1844 60
Return of monies received at Lunenburg for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1844 61
Return of monies received at Sydney for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1844 62
Return of monies received at Tatamagouche for support of light
house. Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and
tonnage.
7 1844 63
Return of monies received at Westport for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
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7 1844 64
Return of monies received at Weymouth for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1844 65
Return of monies received at Windsor for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1844 66
Return of monies received at Yarmouth for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1845 67
Return of monies received at Argyle for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1845 68
Return of monies received at Arichat for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1845 69
Return of monies received at Cornwallis for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1845 70
Return of monies received at Digby for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1845 71
Return of monies received at Canso for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1845 72
Return of monies received at Halifax for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1845 73
Return of monies received at Liverpool for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1845 74
Return of monies received at Lunenburg for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1845 75
Return of monies received at Pictou for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1845 76
Return of monies received at Sydney for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1845 77
Return of monies received at Wallace for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1845 78
Return of monies received at Westport for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
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7 1846 79
Return of monies received at Canso for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
7 1846 84
Return of monies received at Yarmouth for support of light house.
Includes name of vessels, their masters, place of origin and tonnage.
8 1850 1-5
Annapolis Lighthouse: For Keeper’s salary, fuel allowance, freight of
40 casks, landing of freight at the lighthouse, carpenter work, painting,
etc.
8 1850 6-10
Beaver Harbour: Keeper’s salary, painting the lighthouse, freight of oil
casks, fuel allowance.
8 1850 11-18
Brier Island: Keeper’s salary, fuel allowance, boat furnished the keeper,
freight of stores, painting light & dwelling houses.
8 1850 19-21
Canso (Gut of): Keeper’s salary, freight of 13 empty casks, trucking up
oil.
8 1850 22-28
Cranberry Island (Canso): Keeper’s salary, freight of oil and stores,
freight of 50 empty oil casks, etc.
8 1850 29-32
Cross Island: Keeper’s salary, freight of oil and Lighthouse stores, one
flat boat.
8 1850 33-34
Liverpool: freight of oil and stores to Liverpool Light, Keeper’s salary
and fuel allowance.
8 1850 35-39
Louisburg: freight of oil and stores, painting lighthouse; building a flat
boat for the lighthouse, Keeper’s salary and fuel allowance.
8 1850 40-42
Low Point: Freight of oil and stores, freight of 34 casks, Keeper’s
salary and fuel allowance.
8 1850 43-47
Maugher’s Beach: Keeper’s salary, freight of oil and stores, fuel
allowance.
8 1850 48-53 Pictou: Keeper’s salary, freight of oil and stores, fuel allowance.
8 1850 54-61
Sambro: 22 1/2 cords wood, freight of oil and stores, t±mber4l9
barrels sperm oil, keeper’s salary.
8 1850 62-68a
Seal Island: 13 days labour building chimney for house, keeper’s
salary, boatman’s wages, medicines supplied to refit the Medicine
Chest.
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8 1850 69-73
Shelburne: Keeper’s salary and fuel allowance; freight of oil and
stores, repairs of boat, etc. freight of oil casks.
8 1850 74-81
Yarmouth: Keeper’s salary and fuel allowance, repairs on lamps, etc.
freight of: oil and stores to Yarmouth.
8 1850 82-84a
Miscellaneous: Order to pay Keeper’s salary at one of the Lighthouses
and general account of the Commissioners of all the Lighthouses in
the province for 1850.
8 1850 85-91
Westport: acquisition of land on which to build a lighthouse, cost of
tenders, supplies for completing the building.
8 1850 92-99
Barrington: painting the lighthouse, one second size Lighthouse clock,
on lantern, bolts, nuts, 28 panes thick glass, supplies for completing
the building.
8 1850 100
Crichet Harbour Lighthouse: Order to pay a sum for finishing the light
beacon.
8 1851 1-11
Annapolis, Arichat, Apple River: Keeper’s salary, materials for the
beacon at Isle Madame, repairs at Arichat, freight of oil and stores to
Apple River, Fuel allowance.
8 1851 12-28
Barrington, Beaver Island, Brier Island, Black Rock: Keeper’s salary,
freight of oil and stores to Barrington, fuel allowance, freight of stores
and materials to Black Rock.
8 1851 29-42
Cranberry Island, Cross Island, Canso: fuel allowance, keeper’s salary,
freight of oil and sundries, freight of oil, cooking stove, pipes, box
lamps, and empty casks to Canso, trucking up the oil and stores to
Canso Lighthouse, freight of oil, stores, and lumber to Canso.
8 1851 43
Devil’s Island: Petition in favour of the erection of a lighthouse on
Devil’s Island, March 26, 1851, from merchants, traders and Mariners
of Halifax
8 1851 44-49 Guysborough: Keeper’s salary, fuel, freight of oil, sundries.
8 1851 50-65
Liverpool, Low Point, Louisburg: Keeper’s salary, freight of oil and
stores; painting and repairing boats, pair of oars, finding wood for the
use of the Liverpool Lighthouse, freight of 11 empty casks from Low
Point.
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8 1851 66-78
Maugher’s Beach: Keeper’s salary, fuel allowance, freight of oil and
stores, repairs, labour.
8 1851 79-108
Peter’s Island, Pictou, Port Medway: Advertising for tenders, keeper’s
salary, fuel allowance, freight of oil, stores & lumber, bond & contract
for building Port Medway beacon, labour at Port Medway Lighthouse,
expenses in erecting beacons at Sand Point & Horton Bluff.
8 1851 109-126
Sambro, Seal Island, Shelburne: Keeper’s salary, labour, shingling roof
of Keeper’s house at Sambro, etc, freight of oil, stores, shingles to
Sambro, casks of wood, boatman’s wages at Seal Island, fuel
allowance.
8 1851 127-151
Yarmouth, St. Paul’s Island, Scattarie: Keeper’s salary, fuel allowance,
stove pipe furnished Yarmouth Lighthouse, freight of oil and stores.
Supplies to St. Paul’s Island, repairing roof of lantern at St. Paul’s.
8 1851
152—
154 Westport: Freight charge, keeper’s salary, 262 casks pale seal oil.
8 1851
155—
177
Miscellaneous: Papers to the Commissioners of the Lighthouses,
itemized accounts for the year 1851 of expenditures at the various
lighthouses in the province.
8 1852 1 Apple River: Keeper’s salary.
8 1852 2-7
Guysborough: Keeper’s salary, supplies, freight of oil & stores, lining
the inside of the Light Beacon, etc.
8 1852 8
Abstract of payments made in support of the Lighthouses to Dec. 31,
1852.
8 1852 9-24
Orders to pay for various services rendered lighthouses in the
province in 1852, such as Keeper’s salaries and fuel allowances.
8 1852 25
Petition in favour of lighthouse being erected on Ellingwood’s Island
(one of the Tusket Islands), Feb. 9, 1852.
8 1852 26-28
Petitions in favour of a beacon in the Bay of Fundy and at Parrsboro,
Feb. 23, 1852.
8 1852 29-32 Petition for a lighthouse at Pictou Island, Feb. 19, 1852.
8 1852 33-34 Petition for a lighthouse at Pubnico Beach, Feb. 13, 1852.
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8 1852 35 Petition for Lighthouse at Ragged Island Harbour, Feb. 26, 1852.
8 1852 36-37 Petition for Lighthouse at Margaretville.
8 1852 38 Petition for re—erection of beacon at entrance of Yarmouth Harbour.
8 1853 1
Letter to Board of Works from Hugh Bell re: using extra funds to
supply life boats and other apparatus for the preservation of persons
wrecked to places like Sable Island, and the possibility of a Light at
Margaree Island
8 1854 1
Letter from H. Bell to Robert King, May 1, 1854 concerning a
proposed meeting.
8 1854 2(a)
Letter from Enos Brown of Horton Bluff, Sept. 13, 1854, regarding
absence of Keeper Robert King.
8 1855 2(b-h)-3
New Brunswick expenditures for Brier & Seal Islands; Letter to Hugh
Bell from Joseph Mundell re light house at Sand Point, increase to
salary and needed improvements to buildings (June 16, 1855); letter
to Commissioners from Edward Brown re a petition to be Keeper of
Scatterie Light House (September 7, 1855); Amounts due the province
and expenditures for St. Paul's and Scatterie; Accounts Current for
new Light Houses (Margaree, Ironbound, Fort Point); Letter from H.
Bell (Board of Works) to Mrs. Howard of Parrsboro rejecting her
request to continue as Keeper of the Parrsboro Light after her
husband's death because she is female (May 29, 1855)
8 1855 4
Letter from H. Bell to Mr. James Howard regarding retention of
services at Parrsboro Lighthouse. June 12, 1855.
8 1856 4a Abstract of amounts paid by Receiver General to December 31.
8 1856 4b Expenditures for lighthouse, Sept. 30-Dec. 31.
8 1856 4c
Share of expenses paid by province of New Brunswick, including Brier
& Seal Islands
8 1856 4(d-h)
Expenditures for Brier & Seal Islands; St. Paul's and Scatterie Islands
receipts and expenditures; net proceeds of sales; payment receipt
between Commissioners for Light Houses and John Monro
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8 1857 5(a-l)
Memorialist Joseph Mundell of Canso to Board of Commissioners re
an increase in salary (July 9, 1857); Petition of William Cann for
position of keeper of Brier Island Light (July 15, 1857); Letter re
Keeper at Great Bras Dor (August 20, 1857); letters re Light at Devil's
Island, certifying that it is a 'red light' (March 1857); Guysborough
Light
8 1857 6-18 Horton Bluff: Papers concerning removal of Lighthouse Keeper.
8 1857 19-20
Parrsboro: two letters concerning arrangements to secure keeper to
lighthouse.
8 1857 21 List of Lighthouse Keepers’ salaries.
8 1858 1
Letter regarding share of N.B. in keeping St. Paul’s & Scattarie
Lighthouse in 1858.
8 1858 2(a-c)
Letter regarding share of Canada in keeping St. Paul’s & Scattarie in
1858; Apple River Light House; selecting site for the light house at
Burnt Coat Head (Hants); letter requesting a situation at Sambro Light
8 1859 3-6
Papers concerning miscellaneous house expenses (seven pounds for
oil casks, etc.) and petition from inhabitants of Advocate Harbour and
Three Sisters on improvement of a road.
8 1860 7-11
Correspondence to Joseph Howe (Prov. Sec.) concerning installation
of fog alarm at entrance of Halifax Harbour, and cost of same;
account of Canada’s share in maintaining lighthouse at St. Paul’s and
Scattarie; amount of annual grant to Brier Island Light; letter re Apple
River Light House and problems the new Keeper had taking
possession; fog light at Partridge Island
8 1861
11(a) -
13
Reports of the superintendent of lighthouses for 1861 after visiting all
light houses; Nova Scotia’s proportion of the expenditures on the
establishment at St. Paul’s and Scattarie for 1861; Cape George Light
House, Guysborough
8 1862 14 - 18
Petition to the Lt. Gov. for a fog whistle on Cape Canso (Feb. 7, 1862) ,
letter from M. D. McKenna, of Board of Works office, Halifax to the
chairman, reporting benefits of albertine oil over seal oil in Lighthouse,
memo of lighthouse expenses from the Board of Works.
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8 1863 18(a-e)
Returns for Apple River; letter re dissatisfaction of Conservative Party
of Pictou at those chosen to fill situation; different oils used at
Scattarie Light, letter re the poor state of buildings at St. Paul's; list of
Keepers removed and appointed between 1860-1863
8 1864 19
Telegram to Charles Tupper, July 20, 1864 concerning tenders to
build a new lighthouse; petitions to appoint Keeper to Boer's
Head/Petite Passage and the Isle of Arye; letters from people trying to
get the Light Keeper's situation for Partridge Island/Parrsboro,
including a widow applying for her son because she "does not wish
him to go to sea again"
8 No Date 20 - 21
Letters to Hon. Joseph Howe concerning the erection of a fog whistle
and a new lighthouse on Cape Sable.
8 1865 22-37
Correspondence relating to the installation of a fog trumpet; Light
Houses Quarterly Reports
8 1866 1-45
Amet Island, Annapolis, Apple River, Barrington, Black Rock, Boar’s
Head, Beaver Harbour, Battery Point, Beaver Harbour, Bird Island, Brier
Island, Burnt Coat: expenditures.
8 1866
46-157
(46, 48-
52
missing)
Cape Sable, Cape George, Chester, Cranberry Island, Cross Island,
Devil’s Island, Egg Island, Fish Island, Flint Island, Fort Point, Green
Island, Gull Rock, Guysborough, Horton Bluff, Iron Bound, Little Hope,
Liverpool, Louisburg, Low Point, Maugher’s Beach, Margaretville,
Margaree, North Canso, Parrsboro, Pictou, Port Hood, Port Medway,
Port Williams, Pubnico: expenditures.
9 1866 158-259
St. Paul’s Island, Sambro, Shelburne, Sand Point, Seal Island,
Scattarie, Westport, White Head, Yarmouth. Miscellaneous
expenditures by the lighthouse service, Board of Public Works, for
1866.
9 1867 1 -32
Amet Island, Annapolis, Apple River, Arichat, Barrington, Battery Point,
Beaver Island, Black Rock, Bird Island, Boar’s Head, Brier Island, Burnt
Coat: expenditures.
9 1867 32a-88
Canso, Cape Canso, North Canso, Cape St. George, Chester, Cranberry
Island, Cross Island, Devil’s Island, Egg Island, Fish Island, Flint Island,
Fort Point, Gull Rock, Green Island, Guysborough, Horton Bluff, Iron
Bound, Little Hope Island, Liverpool, Louisburg, Low Point, Margaree
Island, Margaretville, Maugher (Meagher’s) Beach, North Canso:
expenditures
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9 1867 89-105
Parrsboro, Pictou Island, Port Hood, Port Medway, Port Williams,
Pubnico.
9 1867 106-122
St. Paul’s Island, Sand Point, Seal Island, Scattarie, Shelburne,
Spencer’s Pond.
9 1867 123-128 Westport, Whitehead, Yarmouth.
9 1867 129-178
Miscellaneous expenditures by the Lighthouse Service (Board of
Works) for 1867.
9
April
1781-
March
1782 1
A List of Vessels & Masters who have paid the Light House Tax,
Halifax. Kept by John Newton & Arthur Gould, Esq, Collectors.
Includes where vessels were owned, where they were bound, tonnage,
and amounts paid
9
January-
March
1784 2
A List of Vessels & Masters who have paid the Light House Tax,
Halifax. Includes where vessels were owned, where they were bound,
tonnage, and amounts paid
9
April-June
1784 3
A List of Vessels & Masters who have paid the Light House Tax,
Halifax. Includes where vessels were owned, where they were bound,
tonnage, and amounts paid
9
July-
September
1784 4
A List of Vessels & Masters who have paid the Light House Tax,
Halifax. Includes where vessels were owned, where they were bound,
tonnage, and amounts paid
9
October-
December
1784 5
A List of Vessels & Masters who have paid the Light House Tax,
Halifax. Includes where vessels were owned, where they were bound,
tonnage, and amounts paid
9 1792 6
Light House Quarterly Account. Includes names of Vessels and their
Masters, where they were owned, where they were bound, tonnage,
and amounts paid
9 1793 7
Light House Quarterly Account. Includes names of Vessels and their
Masters, where they were owned, where they were bound, tonnage,
and amounts paid
9
1793-
1794 8
Light House Quarterly Account. Includes names of Vessels and their
Masters, where they were owned, where they were bound, tonnage,
and amounts paid
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9 1805 9
Light House Quarterly Account. Includes names of Vessels and their
Masters, where they were owned, where they were bound, tonnage,
and amounts paid
9 1807 10
Light House Quarterly Account. Includes names of Vessels and their
Masters, where they were owned, where they were bound, tonnage,
and amounts paid
9 1811 11
Light House Quarterly Account. Includes names of Vessels and their
Masters, where they were owned, where they were bound, tonnage,
and amounts paid
9 1824 12 Return of Light Duties
10 1827 13 Annapolis Light House, receipts for Keeper's salary and fuel allowance
10 1827 14
Brier Island Light House, receipts for Keeper's salary and fuel
allowance
10 1827 15 Canso Light House, receipts for casks of oil
10 1827 16
Cranberry Island Light House, receipts for Keeper's salary and fuel
allowance
10 1827 17 Digby Light House, receipts for frieght and supplies
10 1827 18 Liverpool Light House, receipts for frieght and Keeper's salary
10 1827 19 Sambro Light House, receipts for Keeper's salary and supplies
10 1827 20
Shelburne Light House, receipts for Keeper's salary and fuel
allowance
10 1827 21-22 Miscellaneous Light House expenditures
10 1828 23
Miscellaneous Light House expenditures, including returns primarily
from the Halifax District
10 1836 24 Miscellaneous Light House expenditures
10 1837 25
Miscellaneous Light House expenditures, including light duties
primarily from the Halifax District
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10
1841-
1842 26 Miscellaneous correspondence, mostly regarding supplies
10 1844 27 Miscellaneous Light House records
10 1847 28 Miscellaneous Light House records
10 1850 29 Miscellaneous Light House records
10 1854 30 Miscellaneous Light House records
10 1859 31 Miscellaneous Light House records
10 1860 32 Miscellaneous Light House records, including Quarterly Expenditures
10 1865 33
Miscellaneous Light House records, including cash expended by J. H.
Kendrick on account of the Light House Service, including some New
Brunswick Lights
Ledger
1877-
1878
Ledger: list of salaries of Light House Keepers, fog whistle
information, accounts regarding the condition of various light
buildings, accounts of supplies
Government Archives. Revised August 28, 2015