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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Language Portuguese Subject Government archives

1. EAP627/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/2
Title:
Records of the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Paraibano
Scope & Content:
The Collection contains bound and separate manuscript and printed documents written in Portuguese and Latin. The majority of the documentation pertains to government administration during the colonial, imperial, and republican periods in Paraíba, Brazil, although there are also geography books a...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1660-1931
Extent:
18,196 TIFF images

2. EAP627/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/2/1
Title:
Writs, Wills, and Deeds
Scope & Content:
The series contains notarial registers documenting the lease of land, dowries, sale of sugar-producing estates (engenhos), wills, powers of attorney, and letters of manumission (alforria) recorded between 1660 and 1665. Manuscript book, containing non-original cover, and restored with Japanese ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1660-1665
Extent:
510 TIFF images

3. EAP627/2/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/2/1/1
Title:
Deeds from Parahyba, 1660-65
Scope & Content:
The codice contains manuscript documents dating from 1660 through 1665. Included are notarial registers recording a 1662 sale of land made by Duarte Pereira Pinto to Captain Antonio Vidal; the lease of land by Captain Gabriel de Mendonça Furtado, owner of Sítio Poxi (in the city of Nossa Senhora...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1660-1665
Extent:
510 TIFF images

4. EAP627/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/2/2
Title:
Royal Orders
Scope & Content:
The series includes royal orders, provisions (provisões), charters, copies of letters, petitions (requerimentos), and other registers made between 1709 and 1821. Documents were sent to the capitães-mores and governors of Paraíba, João da Maya da Gama, Antonio Velho Coelho, Jerônimo José de Mello...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1709-1821
Extent:
4,586 TIFF images

5. EAP627/2/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/2/2/1
Title:
Royal Orders, 1709-1719
Scope & Content:
Originally separate manuscript and printed documentation bound in a single volume. The volume contains royal letters and provisions dating from 1709 to 1719 and addressed to the governors of Paraíba, João da Maya da Gama and Antonio Velho Coelho. Relates the royal orders for the auditor general ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1709-1719
Extent:
752 TIFF images

6. EAP627/2/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/2/2/2
Title:
Royal Orders, 1720-1733
Scope & Content:
Originally separate manuscript documentation bound in a single volume. The volume contains royal letters and decrees (alvarás) dating from 1720 to 1732. Relates wars against the Tapuia Indians; the marriage of an Indian of the Pega nation; the escape of Indians from an Indian mission village (al...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1720-1732
Extent:
856 TIFF images

7. EAP627/2/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/2/2/3
Title:
Royal Orders, 1733-1744
Scope & Content:
Originally separate printed and manuscript documentation bound in a single volume. The volume contains royal letters, provisions, and decrees (alvarás and alvarás de lei) dating from 1733 to 1744. Contains orders concerning the payment of taxes, customs duties, and the public accounts of the tax...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1733-1744
Extent:
708 TIFF images

8. EAP627/2/2/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/2/2/4
Title:
Royal Orders, 1745-1755
Scope & Content:
Printed and manuscript documentation originally separate and bound in a single volume. The volume registers royal letters and decrees (alvarás de lei) dating from 1745 to 1755 and sent to the capitães mores of Paraíba. Records orders to re-inspect an English vessel under the command of Miler Nor...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1745-1755
Extent:
492 TIFF images

9. EAP627/2/2/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/2/2/5
Title:
Royal Orders, 1770-1797
Scope & Content:
Printed and manuscript documentation originally separate and bound in a single volume. The volume registers royal orders, provisions, and decrees (alvaras de lei) dating from 1770 to 1797 and sent to the governors of Paraíba. Accounts how the governors of Brazil and of Pará, Angola, and African...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1770-1797
Extent:
568 TIFF images

10. EAP627/2/2/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/2/2/6
Title:
Royal Orders and Overseas Council's (Conselho Ultramarino) Provisions, 1798-1821
Scope & Content:
13. Documentation bound in a single volume. The volume registers royal letters and provisions dating from 1798 to 1921 and sent to the governors of Paraíba. Records a royal letter determining that all the forests and trees on the coastline and navigable rivers pertain to his magesty’s dominion a...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1798-1821
Extent:
606 TIFF images

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