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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP627/2/2/7
Title:: Royal Orders, Secretary of the Navy and Overseas Affairs (Secretaria da Marinha e Negocios Ultramarinos)
Scope & Content:: Bound manuscript volume. The volume registers royal letters and provisions dating from 1798 to 1821 and sent to the governors of Paraíba. Records a provision ordering the remittance of charts detailing the captaincy’s inhabitants, their occupations, marriages, births, and deaths, the importation...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Portuguese
Date Range:: 1798-1821
Extent:: 604 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP627/2/3/1
Title:: Correspondence, Navy and Overseas Archive, 1757
Scope & Content:: Bound mansucript volume. The volume registers letters, official letters (ofícios), and provisions (provisões) sent to and produced by the governor of Paraíba, Jerônimo José de Mello e Castro, between 1757 and 1792. Contains a letter from Luiz Diogo Lobo to municipal council officials of the city...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Portuguese
Date Range:: 1757-1792
Extent:: 112 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP627/2/3/2
Title:: Correspondence, Navy and Overseas Archive, 1794
Scope & Content:: Bound manuscript volume. The volume registers letters, official letters (ofícios), and proclamations (bandos) sent to and produced by the governors of Paraiba, Jerônimo José de Mello e Castro and Fernando Delgado Freire de Castilho, between 1794 and 1798. Reports on the Terço dos Pardos, a milit...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Portuguese
Date Range:: 1794-1798
Extent:: 112 TIFF images

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