Catalogue description Colonial Office and predecessors: Bermuda, Original Correspondence

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Reference: CO 37
Title: Colonial Office and predecessors: Bermuda, Original Correspondence
Description:

This series contains original correspondence relating to Bermuda.

Date: 1689-1952
Arrangement:

Bound volumes arranged chronologically and from 1801 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. From 1926 the correspondence is arranged in subject files.

Related material:

For later records see CO 1031

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Copies held at:

Microfilm copies were created as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (1948-1997). The microfilm images have been digitised and made available online by the National Library of Australia.

Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 303 files and volumes
Access conditions: Open
Publication note:

Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, 1574-1739 (HMSO, 1860-1994; CDROM edition, Routledge, 2000)

Unpublished finding aids:

For registers of correspondence before 1850 see CO 326; after 1850 see CO 334. For indexed précis of correspondence see CO 714.

Administrative / biographical background:

In 1612 the charter of the Virginia Company was extended to include the Bermuda islands and a party of settlers arrived from England. In 1684 the charter, which had been taken over by the Bermuda Company of London, was annulled and the colony passed to the Crown.

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