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East Florida Claims Commission: Papers and Reports
Catalogue reference: T 77
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T 77
Claims and reports of the East Florida Claims Commission and lists of title deeds and papers relating to the management of estates. Consists primarily of the claims, with supporting documents, of the settlers of the province of East Florida which...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- T 77
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Title (The name of the record)
- East Florida Claims Commission: Papers and Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
- c1763-1789
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Description (What the record is about)
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Claims and reports of the East Florida Claims Commission and lists of title deeds and papers relating to the management of estates. Consists primarily of the claims, with supporting documents, of the settlers of the province of East Florida which in 1783, after twenty years of British administration, was ceded to the Crown of Spain under article 5 of the Treaty of Paris.
The series contains:
- Files 1-18 are made up by the claimants' papers, usually in the form of a memorial supported by documentation of land grants, indentures, schedules and valuations of property, and often with plats and other maps and plans.
- File 19 consists of reports on the claims of the many settlers who had taken refuge in the Bahamas.
- File 20 contains papers relating to the administration of East Florida, in particular with regard to events consequent upon the cession
- Files 21-30 are largely fragmentary and relate principally to administrative matters, although they do include as well some documentation, including land grants and plats, that has become separated from the main series of claimants' papers (files 1-18): these are not indexed .
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The National Archives is grateful to Professor W Bruce Antliff who provided the information to enhance the catalogue entries in T 77/1 - T 77/21 in 2013.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For American Loyalist Claims (Series I) see: AO 12
For further American Loyalist Claims (Series II), including some East Florida claimants, see: AO 13
For documents relating to Refugees (loyalists temporary allowances and quarterly pensions lists; T 50/30 relates in particular to East Florida), see: T 50
For reports of the East Florida Commissioners (lists of names of claimants and amounts awarded), see: CO 5/562
For records of the American Loyalists Claim Commission (various reports on claims and schedules of claims), see: T 79
There are further records relating to East Florida compensation claims, and into the administration and history of the province:
For Colonial Office: America and West Indies: Original Correspondence (records of East Florida, 1746-1789), see CO 5/540-573: CO 5/540
Other indexes created in the course of editorial work on this series, and an article describing the documents more fully, are in: ZBOX 2/12
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Several maps have been extracted to
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- East Florida Claims Commission, 1783-1789
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 30 files and papers
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Owing to water damage caused to the documents in a period prior to their deposit in the Public Record Office in 1847, many are in a poor state of legibility.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- C M Andrews, 'Guide to the Materials for American History, to 1783 in the Public Record Office. Vol II Departmental and Miscellaneous Papers'. G Palmer, 'A Bibliography of Loyalist Source Material in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. The maps from the series are fully described in the printed catalogue, 'Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: Vol 2, America and West Indies'.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13814/
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