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 code(s): CO 116

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

Date(s): 1681 - 1943

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 312 volume(s)

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Scope and content: 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.

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Related units of description: See also: PRO Online Catalogue, Division within CO.

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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

Colonization

Colonialism

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Dutch West India Company, 1621-1791

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Guyana