Account book documenting Roberts' financial relationship with the New England Company, the missionary arm of the Church of England. The New England Company insisted on quarterly financial reports sent to their main office in London. This ledger book is Roberts' version. Accounting begins during Roberts time as a missionary at the Cayuga Mission in Upper Canada. It concludes with financial records of his time maintaining a mission on Kuper Island. Ledger offers details on the life of a missionary through financial details such as the cost of goods, material supplies, and annual salary.
Account book documenting Roberts' daily personal financial transactions. Roberts kept an account book similar to the book he maintained concerning New England Company transactions for all other personal transactions in his life. Given his penury, Roberts was obliged to keep a very close account of all expenditures.
Account book documenting Roberts' daily personal financial transactions. Roberts kept an account book similar to the book he maintained concerning New England Company transactions for all other personal transactions in his life. Given his penury, Roberts was obliged to keep a very close account of all expenditures.
Account book documenting Roberts' daily personal financial transactions. Roberts kept an account book similar to the book he maintained concerning New England Company transactions for all other personal transactions in his life. Given his penury, Roberts was obliged to keep a very close account of all expenditures.
Account book documenting Roberts' daily personal financial transactions. Roberts kept an account book similar to the book he maintained concerning New England Company transactions for all other personal transactions in his life. Given his penury, Roberts was obliged to keep a very close account of all expenditures.
Account book documenting Roberts' daily personal financial transactions. Accounts for all expenditures for the year however small. Given his penury, Roberts was obliged to keep a very close account of all expenditures.
Account book documenting Roberts' daily personal financial transactions. Roberts kept an account book similar to the book he maintained concerning New England Company transactions for all other personal transactions in his life. Given his penury, Roberts was obliged to keep a very close account of all expenditures. This account book recorded only expenditures while living on Kuper Island.
Roberts began to keep ledger books during his work as a Church of England missionary. He began his missionary work at the “Six Nations Indians’ parsonage,” Cayuga Mission. He was under instruction to send quarterly journals and account books to his London based employer, the New England Company. The account books in this series are his own personal accounting of his finances. They include his financial relationship with the New England Company. One of the ledgers, A/E/R54/R54.13/1881-1887, is titled "N.E.C." and is designed to be an official New England Company ledger but Roberts decided to use if for personal finances. The others are titled as "Private Accounts," or "Personal Ledgers." Roberts was a meticulous financial accountant, even the simplest cost of supplies, produce or day labour are documented. The ledgers identify amounts of transaction, names of business parties, nature and dates of transactions. Roberts was constantly in financial difficulty, and the ledgers illustrate the challenge of managing a commonly underfunded mission.
Roberts' handwritten notebook documenting baptisms, marriages, holy communion, administration of the sacrament of the Lord's supper, sermon attendance. Also includes an 1886 aboriginal census made by Roberts.
Series consists of handwritten record keeping copies of Roberts' correspondence entered into bound letter books. Each book numbers approximately 250 pages. The predominant portion of the correspondence is with the New England Company. The main subjects of the correspondence include managing the mission's daily affairs, financial hardship and the current events in the local community. The letter books do not cover the years beyond 1897, there is very little concerning the Indian Affairs' residential school on Kuper Island; however, Roberts does comment on his relations with local indigenous communities.
Series consists of 36 diaries handwritten by Robert James Roberts. Roberts began to keep a diary as a young man attending grammar school in England. He consistently kept a daily diary through his life. His diaries were generally leather bound, chapbook size. As a diarist Roberts' entries predominantly concerned daily events. His writing documents his time in Upper Canada where he worked as a Church of England missionary at the "Cayuga Indian Mission." The predominant portion of the diaries document his life on the West Coast. They provide a tableau of life on Kuper Island. Roberts' diaries capture a profile of the Lamalchi and Penelekut First Nations during their late 19th century experience of colonial settlement on the West Coast of Canada. in the 1890s Roberts began to include Pitman’s shorthand into his records. He also kept a small portion of his earlier diaries in a shorthand known as Odell. Approximately 10 - 15% of the diaries are written in Pitman's shorthand. Roberts was not part of the Oblates residential school located on Kuper Island and it is mentioned infrequently in his diaries.
Diary of Roberts' daily observations as Reverend of the Indian parsonage, Cayuga Mission. Roberts has begun to use a small amount of shorthand (Pitmans) in his diaries.
Torn fragments from a variety of diaries. There is no particular order or theme, these torn pages have been removed from diaries Roberts wrote. To speculate, Roberts wrote in 1904 that he was purging his diaries, removing content he did not with to share.
Diary of Roberts' daily observations as Reverend of the Indian parsonage, Cayuga Mission. Roberts has begun to use a small amount of shorthand (Pitmans) in his diaries.
Diary of Roberts' daily observations as Reverend of the Indian parsonage, Cayuga Mission. Roberts has begun to use a small amount of shorthand (Pitmans) in his diaries.
