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Civil Commissions

If you are interested in any of these files then please contact the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick.

This series contains ten commissions appointing individuals to various civic positions such as justice of the peace, high sheriff, and deputy surveyor.  They date between 1789 and 1882.”

1  Appointment of Justices of the Peace for Sunbury County including Jonathan Bliss, John Saunders, Ward Chipman, John Murray Bliss, George Howard, Christopher Billopp, John Coffin, John Robinson, William Black, Samuel Denny Street, Anthony Lockwood, George Shore, Thomas Wetmore, William Botsford, Samuel Peabody, Elijah Miles, David Burpe, Isaac Hubbard, John Hazen, Ichabod Smith, Clapman Smith, Stephen Peabody, Charles F. Street and Thomas Odber Miles; August 2, 1822.

2  Appointment of Justices of the Peace for York County including John Allen, Peter Fraser, Thomas C. Lee, John Robinson, Peter Clements, John Henry Smith, Richard Ketchum, James Upham, James A. McLaughlan, Thomas Emerson, Thomas Jones, Jedediah Slason, George Minchin, George Morehouse, Josiah Brown, John Dibblee, James Harrison, Simon Hammond, Jacob Allan, William Robinson, William Wilmot, William Davidson, Patrick Campbell, James Miles, John Dow, Adam Sharp, Arthur B. Walsh, William Hallett, Francis Rice and Ross Curry; March 17, 1830.

3  Appointment of Justices of the Peace for Sunbury County including Elijah Miles, David Burpe, Thomas O. Miles, Theodorus V.W. Clowes, Isaac Hubbard,  Clapman Smith, Stephen Peabody, Charles F. Street, Cushi Hatheway, Nathaniel Hubbard, James Tilley, George Hayward, Charles Hazen and William Hoyt; March 18, 1830.

4  Appointment of Xenophon Jouett to be High Sheriff of York County; September 14, 1789.

5  Commission to John James Fraser of the Supreme Court; December 28, 1882.

6  Appointment of George Haddon to be Swedish Vice-Consul at Dalhousie; October 26, 1863.

7  Appointment of Michael O’Connor of Northumberland County to be deputy surveyor; August 3, 1826.

8  Appointment of Robert Chestnut of Fredericton as Fireward; December 31, 1849.

9  Appointment of Beverley Robinson Jouett to be Serjeant-at-Arms replacing Isaac Woodward Jouett, deceased; February 5, 1838.

10  Appointment of Xenophon Jouett to be Serjeant-at-Arms; February 19, 1793.