Date: 15 August 1817

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 32 x 20 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 25

Note: Item discusses a request for a plan, as Lord Dalhousie wishes to see one; instructions for the plan; and that Mr. and Mrs. Morris Sr. have arrived safely in Boston.

Date: 20 August 1817

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 32 x 20 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 26

Note: Item discusses the 100 acre lot to be laid out for Julius Odevaine, John Wolf, and John Vanought, late privates in the 60th regiment; instructions for laying out the lots.

Date: 21 August 1817

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 32 x 20 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 27

Note: Item discusses the 100 acre lot to be laid out for Michael Bowers, late private in the Newfoundland Regiment.

Date: 2 September 1817

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 32 x 40 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 28

Note: Item discusses settlers that were provided with rations- 61 men and officers, 15 women, and 31 children.

Date: 30 September 1817

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 32 x 40 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 29

Note: Item discusses the 200 acre lot to be laid out for Sergeant Andrew Spears, late of the 64th Regiment.

Date: 2 October 1817

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 32 x 40 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 30

Note: Item discusses a request for a plan and the number of soldiers again.

Date: 11 October 1817

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 32 x 40 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 31

Note: Item discusses the 100 acre lots to be laid out for Pater Walsh, Thomas Forcey, John Scott and William Haslett, late soldiers in the Newfoundland Regiment.

Date: 14 October 1817

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 32 x 20 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 32

Note: Item discusses the 200 acre lot to be laid out for James Comens, late sergeant in the 8th Regiment.

Date: 9 December 1817

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 32 x 20 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 33

Note: Item discusses a receipt for provisions being sent shipped to Sherbrooke; requests it to be signed and returned upon arrival of provisions; gives a brief notation of suppliers sent; including 485 gal. 2 2/3 pt. of rum.

Date: 18 December 1817

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 24 x 40 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 34

Note: Item discusses a description of road which Ross is in charge of; no further lots to be granted along the road; Meany is to be removed from his lot which he has occupied unofficially; Benjamin Vaughan is surveying in the area, but is doing so without official permission and his surveys are not to be recognized; Vaughn is no longer deputy of Morris.

Date: December 1817

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 24 x 20 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 35

Note: Item discusses receipt for the provisions sent by George Damerum; numerical account of settlers at Sherbrooke; list of basic supplies and poundage sent.

Date: 1818?

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 18 x 23 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 36

Note: Item describes recommendation concerning the bearer of the letter, Brophy, of the late Nova Scotia Fencibles; acknowledges receipt of returns of provisions; warns Ross not to speculate his stocks.

Date: 1818

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 32 x 20 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 37

Note: Items discussed in the include the transfer of one acre of land, part of lot No. 24, for the purpose of erecting a mill, in return for two acres of land. Ross then seems to have sold 50 acres of the same lot to W. Hartley, miller, for £30.

Date: 6 January 1818?

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 25 x 40 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 38

Note: Item indicates that letter was sent "with a sack of seed oats". Extra rations sent to replace biscuits which have been lost; acknowledges receipt of Ross' certificate concerning biscuits; reference to matter concerning meadow; mentions appointment of coroner; militia clothing cannot be provided; encloses some seed oats and six quarts of beans.

Date: 21 January 1818?

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 23 x 36 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 39

Note: Item discusses the re-distribution of rum in the settlement; Ross apparently wished it discontinued in the rations, but this is "to strong a measure"; Messrs. Gates and Hunt are trying to profit from the sale of rum, but Ross is to exercise his authority as a Magistrate in order to prevent it being sold without a license; comments on subject of commissions (possibly militia); remembers Mr. Calkin as a sharp little fellow at Liverpool, but warns Ross not to let Calkin run him; does not recommend Calkin as a Captain but promises to consult Morris re: meadow.

Date: 24 February 1818

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 32 x 20 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 40

Note: Items advises trustees are willing to grant assistance towards a mill, also to provide seed supply; Ross must advise them concerning what help he needs, also estimate the amount of seed necessary, £100 will be granted toward a schoolhouse when Ross is ready, mentions meadow again.

Date: 8 June 1818

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 32 x 40 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 41

Note: Items confirms the grant of £200 for repairing the road from Gold Rover to Lieutenant Ross in Sherbrooke.

Date: 17 July 1818

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 25 x 40 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 42

Note: Item advises of an additional three month supply of rations is to be sent to Sherbrooke; crops are not in, and settlement would otherwise be short on food; Lord Dalhousie considers this a special bounty, and Ross is to use his own discretion, distribution only to the industrious and worthy; Ross is to have the supplies conveyed to Sherbrooke as cheaply as possible and to guard against loss or waste; he is also to try and save some rations for future use.

Date: 24 July 1818

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 25 x 40 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 43

Note: Item advises that nine discharged soldiers are coming to Chester; Ross is to dispose of them with the others; a tenth will soon join them; boat should arrive with provisions within forty-eight hours.

Date: 30 July 1818

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 22 x 37 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 44

Note: Item advises rum rationing is to be discontinued; Ross may sell the remainder of the present supply; using the proceeds to help settlers; rum rations have been discontinued by Dalhousie in new settlement of Annapolis and several other new settlements; as for German settlers, he will substitute some other commodity than rum in their provisions. Note: This item is encapsulated with the incorrect reference number. It should be no. 44.

Date: 27 October 1818

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 25 x 40 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 45

Note: Item discusses settlers request for additional rations where were viewed as "unreasonable", and he will not speak to Dalhousie on the matter; Sherbrooke has been supplied for 27 months instead of the promised 12; they have had two fine seasons, and if they have not been able to establish themselves by now, he doubts if they ever will; they have received "extraordinary indulgence" from the government; Ross is not to bother Lord Dalhousie on the part of the settlers.

Date: 21 February 1819

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 25 x 39 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 46

Note: Item advise that the saw mill is at work and hopes the grist mill will be used in the fall; questions progress of schoolhouse; remarks on George's accident; more land being occupied near Sherbrooke (Major Smith's land); promises to speak to Morris re: Ross' appointment as Justice of the Inferior Court; gives some personal family news - one son is at school in Windsor where a clergyman who had a large school on the Isle of Wight has been in charge since the summer of 1818; House of Assembly meeting in the new Province building; members opposing Dalhousie re: road money, etc.

Date: 23 February 1819

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 25 x 38 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 47

Note: Item advises Colonel Beresford's men are coming to settle in Sherbrooke area, will make good settlers; mentions Ross's appointment as judge again; Assembly still disputing with Lord Dalhousie on the militia question.

Date: 11 May 1819?

Extent: 1 page of textual records; 23 x 38 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 48

Note: Item discusses the acknowledgment of Ross's complaints about the quality of the provisions; bad flour was no doubt substituted somewhere for the quality supply sent from Halifax; Mr. Elder probably responsible; mentions visit of Mary; Kiens is to sail shortly with some provisions, also some seeds for the Agricultural Society; Hunt's family cut off from rations.

Date: 28 May 1819

Extent: 2 pages of textual records; 23 x 36 cm.

Reference: Ross Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 794 item 49

Note: Item discusses personal family news; appears that John Baldwin may be William Ross's brother-in-law.