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Catalogue description Colonial Office and predecessors: Antigua and Montserrat, Original Correspondence
| Reference: | CO 7 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Colonial Office and predecessors: Antigua and Montserrat, Original Correspondence |
| Description: |
This series contains original correspondence relating to Antigua and Montserrat. There are few records prior to 1816. |
| Date: | 1702-1872 |
| Related material: |
For further correspondence from both colonies prior to 1816 and after 1872 see CO 152 For further correspondence on Montserrat see CO 175 See also CO 318 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 144 volume(s) |
| Publication note: |
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, 1574-1739 (HMSO, 1860-1994; CDROM edition, Routledge, 2000) |
| Unpublished finding aids: |
This correspondence is registered in the Leeward Islands registers CO 354 after 1850. Before 1850 see CO 326 under West Indies. For indexed précis of correspondence see CO 714. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Antigua and Montserrat were settled by English from St Christopher in 1632. Antigua was captured by the French in 1666 and Montserrat in 1667, but both were restored to Britain by the Treaty of Breda in 1667. Montserrat was again captured by France in 1782, but restored to Britain in 1783. Both were part of the government of the Leeward Islands from 1671 to 1816. They then jointly formed a separate governmental unit, but were reunited with the other Leeward Islands under a governor-in-chief in 1833, and in 1871 the federal legislature was reconstituted. |
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