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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Subject Government archives Level [36] Series

1. EAP427/1/10

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP427/1/10
Title:
Chieftainship Issues [1942-1960]
Scope & Content:
It contains folders of images relating to chieftainship of the Mzukuzuku, Tumbaka people within the Native authority M'mbelwa area and usage of old Ngoni names in Ngoni chieftainships Contributors/Owners of the original record(s): Tumbuka people, M'mbelwa native council, district commissioners ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Chichewa, English, Ngoni, and Tumbuka
Date Range:
1942-1960
Extent:
214 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. EAP627/2/2

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

4. EAP627/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/2/3
Title:
Governmental Correspondence
Scope & Content:
The series contains letters, official letters (ofícios), provisions, petitions (requerimentos), and representations (representações) produced by governors and the Provincial Assembly of Paraíba (Junta Provincial da Paraíba) between 1757 and 1824. Records decisions over who would govern the capta...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1757-1824
Extent:
2,088 TIFF images

5. EAP627/2/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/2/4
Title:
Notarial Records
Scope & Content:
The series contains registers recording donations, sales, mortgages; financing (fiança); letters of manumission; wills; and more dating from 1799 to 1861. The registers were made by public notaries in Vila de Pombal, Vila de Sousa, and in the city of Paraíba. Contains volumes with covers, inclu...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1799-1861
Extent:
3,368 TIFF images

6. EAP627/2/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/2/5
Title:
Justice
Scope & Content:
The series consists of registers of royal orders and provisions promulgated by the Portuguese Overseas Council (Conselho Ultramarino) and sent to the auditors (ouvidores) of Paraíba between 1688 and 1887. Includes a criminal suit from Brejo do Cruz, Comarca of Pombal; civil action of maintenance...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1688-1887
Extent:
1,120 TIFF images

7. EAP627/2/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/2/6
Title:
Slave Emancipation
Scope & Content:
The series consists of a volume recording the slaves to be freed by the Emancipation Fund of Teixeira in the year 1880, as well as a volume of the abolitionist society, Emancipadora Areiense, dating from 1884. One of the books has original hardcover, and its folios are yellowing, with parts sc...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1881-1884
Extent:
628 TIFF images

8. EAP627/2/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/2/7
Title:
Revenue and Transportation
Scope & Content:
The Series consists of records of taxes and contracts, provided to the Revenue Administration office (Administração de Rendas) or dictated by the Provincial Government, from 1851 to 1857; Minutes relating to the beginning of construction of "Conde D'Eu" railroad, by the Railway Company Limited,...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1851-1918
Extent:
354 TIFF images

9. EAP627/2/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/2/8
Title:
Provincial Legislation and State Constitution
Scope & Content:
The series contains provincial laws enacted in Paraíba do Norte between 1838 and 1888 as well as a copy of the state constitution of 1892. Records laws delimiting the boundaries of the parish (freguesia) of São Miguel da Bahia da Traição; creating the village of Ingá; approving the compromisso o...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1838-1892
Extent:
1,470 TIFF images

10. EAP627/2/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/2/9
Title:
Political Party
Scope & Content:
The series includes holds mansucript volumes containing the subscriptions of delegates present at the conventions of the Partido Republicano Conservador of the state of Paraíba held in 1911 and 1913; minutes of the conventions of the Partido Republicano Conservador of the state of Paraíba, from ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1911-1920
Extent:
648 TIFF images

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