Claims Commissions: Various Claims

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): AO 14

Title: Claims Commissions: Various Claims

Date(s): 1795 - 1846

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 48 volume(s)

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Administrative/Biographical history: Records of the Boards of Claims at Bremen, 1795 to 1820, and Lisbon, 1814 to 1822 and of the Slave Compensation Commission, 1835 to 1846.

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Scope and content: Records of the Slave Compensation Commission, 1835 to 1846.

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Related units of description: For other records of the Slave Compensation Commission see PRO Online catalogue (PROCAT): NDO 4 and T 71.

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DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: January 2002

Interest: Caribbean

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Slavery

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Slave Compensation Commission, 1835 - 1846

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