Notice bibliographique du document

Créateur

Great Britain. Audit Office.

Titre

Audit Office : AO 13. Claims, American Loyalists - Series II : selections
Audit Office : AO 13. Réclamations, Loyalistes américains - Série II : Sélections

Identificateur

MIKAN: 105755
Reels/Bobines: C-9821, C-12905
Archival Reference/Référence Archivistique: MG 14 A O 13
oocihm.lac_mikan_105755
lac_mikan_105755

Sujet

Government
Immigration
Genealogy
Gouvernement
L'immigration
Généalogie

Document original

Library and Archives Canada/Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

Notes

1780-1835
Copyright Not Evaluated/Droit d'auteur non évalué
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Langue

anglais

Description

The Exchequer and Audit Department, familiarly known as the Audit Office, the principal auditing agency of the British central government, was created in 1866 to be the modern replacement of the old Exchequer. The Audit Office was concerned with accounts of expenditures related to colonial administration and military and naval actions associated with the acquisition and defence of colonies, including the British North American colonies which later became Canada and the United States of America.
This collection consists of documentation accumulated by the Commissioners appointed to hear, inquire into and decide upon claims for losses and sufferings by Loyalists, or for furnishing supplies for the British Army and Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War.
L’Exchequer and Audit Department, mieux connu sous l’appellation d’Audit Office, est le principal bureau de vérification du gouvernement central britannique. Il a été créé en 1866 pour remplacer l’ancien Exchequer devenu désuet. L’Audit Office avait la responsabilité des comptes de dépenses liées à l’administration coloniale, et des opérations militaires et navales associées à l’acquisition et à la défense des colonies, y compris celles de l’Amérique du Nord britannique qui, ultérieurement, allaient devenir le Canada et les États-Unis d’Amérique.
Cette collection comprend la documentation conservée par les Commissaires nommés pour entendre, examiner et régler les réclamations pour les pertes et les souffrances subies par les Loyalistes, ou pour avoir fourni du ravitaillement à l’Armée britannique et à la Marine royale durant la guerre de l’Indépendance américaine.
Finding Aid 90, British Records on Microfilm, provides a microfilm shelf list which provides reel number, identifying the microfilm reel number, the title and outside dates for each volume, indicating folio numbers only where a volume is split between two reels.
Finding Aid 250 part 1 provides an historical introduction to the Audit Office records in general and the inter-relationships amongst series; the PRO shelf list and a shelf list correlating microfilm references for both the transcripts and the film of the originals; plus notes on the utility of various published guides to Audit Office records. Finding Aid 250 part 3 reproduces the B. F. Stevens nominal index of claimants for Audit Office 13 - which index is also available on reel B-1154. (Part 2 contains the Stevens index for AO 12.) Note that this index identifies only the bundle (volume) number for each claim. Microfilm reel C-9821 reproduces the principal shelf lists from FA 250 part 1 and the Stevens nominal index from FA 250 part 3.
Several recent published works serve as finding aids to records of the Loyalist Claims Commissioners in Audit Office 13 and to other related series. Peter Wilson Coldham's work "American Migrations, 1765-1799" (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000) presents an analytical symmary for each of the claims and evidence in both AO 12 and AO 13, organized first by the colony in which the losses occurred, then alphabetically, with precise bundle/volume and page references. Introductory notes provide contextual information, while appendices identify related records in Treasury 50, 77 and 79, and a nominal index of claimants provides access to the summaries.

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