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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Container Reference (shelfmark) EAP627/3

1. EAP627/3/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/3/1
Title:
Land Grants (Registro de Sesmarias)
Scope & Content:
This series contains bound volumes of handwritten documents. The books of land grants (Sesmarias) reveal the process by which agrarian space was occupied in Paraíba during the colonial period. The land grant letters contain requests for land made to the Portuguese Crown in compensation for effo...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1704-1824
Extent:
4,768 TIFF images

2. EAP627/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/3/2
Title:
Land Titles
Scope & Content:
This series includes land titles as mandated by an 1850 legislation law (Lei de Terras). Included in this series are land and/or house titles from the parishes of: Nossa Senhora da Guia da Vila de Patos from 1855-1856; Nossa Senhora das Neves (modernday João Pessoa) from 1854-1861; Nossa Senhor...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1854-1865
Extent:
2,896 TIFF images

3. EAP627/3/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/3/3
Title:
Acts by the Central Administration (Portugal and Brazil), 1797-1856
Scope & Content:
The series is composed of royal letters (cartas régias) and provisions by the Prince Regent and by Dom Rodrigo de Souza Coutinho, relating to administrative matters of the Paraíba Captaincy, dating from 1707 to 1805; orders issued by the State Secretary for Imperial Affairs (Secretaria de Estad...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1797-1856
Extent:
1,322 TIFF images

4. EAP627/3/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/3/4
Title:
Rank Letters
Scope & Content:
The series contains rank letters (cartas patentes) of military officers of the Cavalry Regiment Company (Companhia do Regimento da Cavalaria); North Regiment's Infantry Troop Company (Companhia da Tropa da Infantaria do Regimento do Norte); Third Pardos' Company (Terceira Companhia dos Homens Pa...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1776-1865
Extent:
1,564 TIFF images

5. EAP627/3/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/3/5
Title:
Acts of the Paraíba Government
Scope & Content:
This series contains documents produced by the Provisory Provincial Junta (Junta Provincial Provisória) that governed during the last years of the colonial regime and the early years of the Province as part of the Brazilian nation (1821-1824); correspondence between Paraíba's Provincial Governme...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1823-1889
Extent:
23,360 TIFF images

6. EAP627/3/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/3/6
Title:
Mayor and Police Authorities
Scope & Content:
The series contains official letters exchanged between the Mayor of the First Parish (Prefeito da Primeira Comarca), Frederico d’Almeida e Albuquerque, and the Police Corps, from 1837 to 1838, as well as correspondence from the Chief of Police to the President of the Province (Presidente de Prov...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1837-1871
Extent:
6,560 TIFF images

7. EAP627/3/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/3/7
Title:
Public Education
Scope & Content:
This series contains correspondence from Paraíba's Public Education Board of Directors ("Diretoria de Instrução Pública da Paraíba") of the President of the Province of Paraíba between 1864 and 1889, recorded according to the powers of the director and other public education officials. It includ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1865-1889
Extent:
1,448 TIFF images

8. EAP627/3/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/3/8
Title:
Municipal Council (Câmara) and Provincial Assembly
Scope & Content:
This series contains registers of decrees issued by the General Council of the Province of Paraíba, between 1830 and 1835, signed by Vice President Joaquim José Luiz de Sousa, and Provincial Secretary José Lucas de Souza Rangel. Decrees relate to: behaviors observed in different municipalities o...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1830-1853
Extent:
616 TIFF images

9. EAP627/3/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/3/9
Title:
Provincial Treasury
Scope & Content:
This series contains payment records of Ministry of Justice's employees from 1837 to 1838; correspondence sent from the Provincial Treasury Municipal) to the President of the Province (Presidente da Província) between 1850 and 1853; Provincial Treasury's Third Section (Terceira Seção do Tesouro...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1837-1875
Extent:
3,476 TIFF images

10. EAP627/3/10

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP627/3/10
Title:
Revenue Administration
Scope & Content:
This series contains registry of documents issued by the Revenue Administration (Administração de Rendas) in 1841; register of titles of Tax Collectors and their clerks, from 1841 to 1855; correspondence between the Provincial Administration Inspection (Inspetoria da Administração da Província)...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Portuguese
Date Range:
1841-1869
Extent:
1,298 TIFF images

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