Catalogue description Colonial Office and predecessors: Nevis Original Correspondence

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Reference: CO 184
Title: Colonial Office and predecessors: Nevis Original Correspondence
Description:

This series contains original correspondence relating to Nevis. With the exception of the first volume, which contains correspondence dated 1703-1787, the series starts in 1854.
Date: 1703-1872
Arrangement:

Bound volumes arranged chronologically and generally 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 a précis of each letter giving name of correspondent, date of letter and subject matter.
Related material:

For further correspondence mostly before 1816 and after 1872 see CO 152

For further correspondence mostly from 1816 to 1853 see CO 239

See also CO 318
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 20 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Unpublished finding aids:

For registers to this correspondence see CO 326 under 'West Indies' before 1850, and CO 354 from 1850. For indexed précis of correspondence see CO 714.

Administrative / biographical background:

Nevis was colonised by the English from St Christopher in 1628. It was governed as part of the Leeward Islands from 1671 until 1816 when this administration was broken up. For the period 1816 to 1871, Nevis, St Christopher and the Virgin Islands were governed as a separate unit, but in 1833 they were reunited with the other Leeward Islands. In 1882 Nevis joined with St Christopher and Anguilla to form one presidency. On the dissolution of the Leeward Islands Federation in 1956, St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla became a separate colony which, from 1958-62, was a member of the Federation of the West Indies.

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