Collection Area: Endangered Archives Programme / Archive Reference (shelfmark): EAP627/3 / Subject: Government archives - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP627/3
Title:: Records of the Arquivo Histórico Waldemar Bispo Duarte
Scope & Content:: This collection unites handwritten documents in the Portuguese language that are bound together as books. The documents were produced in the Colonial and Imperial periods within modernday Paraíba, Brazil. The collection inludes land grants (sesmarias - 1704-1824); land records (1854-1865); admin...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Portuguese
Date Range:: 1704-1889
Extent:: 48,088 TIFF images

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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP627/3/1/1
Title:: Land Grants 1704-1722 / Sesmarias 1704-1722
Scope & Content:: This book contains land grant (Sesmaria) records from 1704, 1708 to 1713, and 1723 to 1725. Petitioners include: José da Luz Soares; Cypriano Gomes Ferreira; Lieutenant Francisco Fernandes de Souza, Reverend and Missionary Priest Antonio de Lima Caldas; Sergeant-Major André de Souza; Captain Con...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Portuguese
Date Range:: 1704-1722
Extent:: 320 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP627/3/1/2
Title:: Plots of Land - 1714-1717 / Land grants (sesmarias) - 1714-1717
Scope & Content:: This volume contains land grant (sesmaria) records from 1714 to 1717, 1718 to 1720, and 1735. Petitioners include: Pedro Mendonça Furtado, Captain Francisco Falcão de Miranda, Reverend Priest Luis Quaresma Dourado, Lucas Gonsalves, Antonio de Miranda Paes, Manoel Vas Varejão, Francisco George Mo...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Portuguese
Date Range:: 1714-1735
Extent:: 406 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP627/3/1/3
Title:: Plots of Land 1722-1727 / Land Grants (sesmarias) 1722-1727
Scope & Content:: The volume contains land grant (sesmaria) records from 1701 to 1704, 1721, 1722-1727, and 1728-1734. Petitioners include: Vicente Nogueira, Sergeant-Major Jozé Gomes de Faria, Manoel de Souza Santiago, José da Luz, Amaro Valcacer, Martinho Gomes, Captain Manoel Fernandes Coelho, Captain Antonio...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Portuguese
Date Range:: 1701-1734
Extent:: 400 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP627/3/1/4
Title:: Land Grants (sesmarias), 1728 -1738
Scope & Content:: The book contains land grant (sesmaria) records from 1709, 1713-1715, 1723, 1727, 1728-1738, and 1739-1742. Petitioners include: Clemente de Amorim de Souza, Captain Bento Bertoni da Costa, Deanna da Fonsêca Gondim, Comissoner Theodoro Alves de Figueiredo, Captain-Major (Capitão-mor) Domingos Ve...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Portuguese
Date Range:: 1709-1742
Extent:: 410 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP627/3/1/5
Title:: Land Grants (sesmarias), 1742 - 1746
Scope & Content:: This volume contains land grant (sesmarias) records from 1742 to 1746. Petitioners include: Lieutenant (Alferes) Pedro Soares da Silva, Lieutenant (Alferes) Thomaz Dinis da Penha, Antonio Pimentel de Araújo, Commissary (Comissário) Theodozio Alves de Figueiredo, Captain Antonio Guedes Alcanfora...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Portuguese
Date Range:: 1742-1746
Extent:: 462 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP627/3/1/6
Title:: Land Grants (sesmarias), 1747 - 1755
Scope & Content:: The book contains land grant (sesmaria) records from 1747 to 1755. Petitioners include Lieutenant General (Tenente Mestre de Campo General) Luis Xavier Bernardo, Ipolito Bandeira de Melo, Reverend Father Jozé Gomes de Faria, Reverend Father Francisco de Araujo Carvalho e Gondino, Manoel de Souz...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Portuguese
Date Range:: 1747-1755
Extent:: 386 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP627/3/1/7
Title:: Land Grants (sesmarias)/ Land Registers, 1757 - 1764
Scope & Content:: The volume contains land grant (sesmaria) records from 1757 to 1764. Petitioners include: José Pereira da Cruz, Coronel Manoel de Vasconcelos de Figueiredo, Alferes Izidro Pereira Gondim, Mariana Rabêllo de Carvalho, Manoel Duarte Ribeiro, João Pereira Dutra, Capitão Manoel Pereira Maior, Revere...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Portuguese
Date Range:: 1757-1764
Extent:: 592 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP627/3/1/8
Title:: Land Grant - Various Parishes, 1768 - 1776
Scope & Content:: The volume contains land grant (sesmaria) records from 1768 to 1776. Petitioners include: Lieutenants (Alferes) José Francisco Muniz de Medeiros and Eugenio da Costa Lima, Lieutenant Jose de Andrade Medina, Captain João da Silva, Manoel Francisco de Souza, Bernardo de Castro Freire, Joaquim Gonç...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Portuguese
Date Range:: 1768-1776
Extent:: 406 TIFF images

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