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Colonial Office and predecessors: British Guiana, formerly Berbice, Demerara and...
Catalogue reference: CO 116
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CO 116
This series contains miscellanea from British Guiana, formerly Berbice, Demerara and Essiquibo. Comprises newspapers, grants of land, registers of legal instruments, court records, taxation returns, reports of protectors of slaves, magistrates'...
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- CO 116
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office and predecessors: British Guiana, formerly Berbice, Demerara and Essiquibo, Miscellanea including Papers of the Dutch West India Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1681-1943
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains miscellanea from British Guiana, formerly Berbice, Demerara and Essiquibo. Comprises newspapers, grants of land, registers of legal instruments, court records, taxation returns, reports of protectors of slaves, magistrates' returns, blue books of statistics, etc. This series also includes the papers of the Dutch West India Company, 1686 to 1792, relating to the Dutch administration of Berbice, Demerara and Essequibo.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 312 volume(s)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4307/
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