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COLLECTION Identifier: Mss:831 1799-1804 B748

William Botsford daybook

Scope and Contents

Daybook of New Brunswick, Canada, jurist William Botsford, recording credits and debits for services including drawing leases, affidavits, indentures, and bonds, and trying cases in civil and admiralty courts, from 1799 to 1804. His clients included Overseers of the Poor, and British naval officers and government officials; an entry from 1799 lists a charge of one pound for "drawing a memorial to His Excellency." In February 1800, there is an entry for fees charged to "Proprietors of Slaves." The volume also contains accounts of washing done by Sarah Hunt and May Roberts, and entries in 1801-1802 list cash lent or paid to several black men, Jordan, or Jourdan, and Thomas, who received wages for unspecified work. Botsford was paid via cash or barter. The end of the volume contains some ledger accounts dated 1799-1800 concerning costs of an unnamed corporation, and accounts of his estate, dated 1864-1867, as well as copies of regimental orders, militia drills, company rosters, and notes about uniforms in 1810, when Botsford was promoted from captain to major in the British army.

Dates

  • Creation: 1799-1867

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research. Materials stored onsite. Please contact specialcollectionsref@hbs.edu for more information.

Extent

.25 linear feet (1 volume)

Biographical / Historical

William Botsford (1773-1864; Yale AB 1792) was as a judge and lawyer in Saint John and Westcock, New Brunswick, Canada. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut; his father, Amos Botsford, was a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War, and the family moved to Nova Scotia in 1782. He served as judge of the Court of Vice-Admiralty in New Brunswick from 1803 to 1808, was elected to the general assembly for Westmorland County in 1812, and was appointed solicitor general in 1816. In 1823, William Botsford was appointed to the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, from which he retired in 1845 due to poor health.

Physical Location

MANU

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased, 1966.

Digitization Funding

Collections and items have been digitized with the generous support of The Polonsky Foundation.

Processing Information

Processed: January 2019 By: Brooke McManus

Title
Botsford, William, 1773-1864. William Botsford Daybook, 1799-1867 (inclusive): A Finding Aid
Author
Baker Library
Description rules
dacs
Language of description
und
EAD ID
bak00714

Repository Details

Part of the Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School Repository

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