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Series
Colonial Office and Predecessors: Virgin Islands Original Correspondence
Catalogue reference: CO 314
What's it about?
CO 314
This series contains original correspondence relating to the Virgin Islands. With the exception of a bundle of letters and papers dating from 1711 to 1791, this correspondence belongs to the period 1854 to 1872.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CO 314
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office and Predecessors: Virgin Islands Original Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1711-1872
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains original correspondence relating to the Virgin Islands. With the exception of a bundle of letters and papers dating from 1711 to 1791, this correspondence belongs to the period 1854 to 1872.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Bound volumes arranged chronologically, and from 1854 within the following subject headings: Despatches (letters of the governors), Offices (letters of government departments and other organisations) and Individuals (arranged alphabetically). Each volume with a contents list, or précis of each letter giving name of correspondent, date of letter and subject matter.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Se also CO 318
For records after 1872 see CO 152
For records from 1816 to 1853 see CO 239
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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24 volume(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
- Caribbean
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- For a register to this correspondence before 1850 see CO 326, from 1850 see CO 354. For indexed précis of correspondence see CO 714.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The British seized control of the Virgin Islands from the Dutch in 1666 (Tortola was not taken until 1672) and thereafter they were included in the government of the Leeward Islands. In 1816 the Leeward Islands government was broken up and the Virgin Islands were governed together with St Christopher and Nevis but in 1871 the Leeward Islands federal legislature was reinstituted.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4505/
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Colonial Office and Predecessors: Virgin Islands Original Correspondence
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