Catalogue description Colonial Office and predecessors: British Guiana, formerly Berbice, Demerara and Essiquibo, Miscellanea including Papers of the Dutch West India Company

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Reference: CO 116
Title: Colonial Office and predecessors: British Guiana, formerly Berbice, Demerara and Essiquibo, Miscellanea including Papers of the Dutch West India Company
Description:

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.

Date: 1681-1943
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Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 312 volume(s)

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