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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP148/3
Title:: Jamaica Archives: The Office of the Island Secretary of Jamaica Collection, Central Government [1659-1879]
Scope & Content:: The collection contains 24 series and comprises information on some administrative and corporate bodies. It also contains documents such as topographical maps, vital statistics and legal papers pertaining to land, population, slavery, corporate accounts (business) and government.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Spanish
Date Range:: 1659-1879
Extent:: 8 files totalling 3,030 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP148/3/1/1
Title:: Manumission Liber: Volume 5 [1747-1838]
Scope & Content:: Certificates of freedom of emancipated peoples on Jamaica. Index is included. Folios 91-99 are missing
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1747-1838
Extent:: 443 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP148/3/1/2
Title:: Manumission Liber: Volume 6 [1755-1760]
Scope & Content:: Certificates of freedom of emancipated peoples on Jamaica. Index is included.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Spanish
Date Range:: 1755-1760
Extent:: 384 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP148/3/1/3
Title:: Manumission Liber: Volume 7 [1760-65, 1772]
Scope & Content:: Certificates of freedom of emancipated peoples on Jamaica.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Spanish
Date Range:: 1760-1772
Extent:: 358 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP148/3/1/4
Title:: Manumission Liber: Volume 8 [1763-1774]
Scope & Content:: Certificates of freedom of emancipated peoples on Jamaica.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1763-1774
Extent:: 219 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP148/3/1/5
Title:: Manumission Liber: Volume 9 [1766-1770]
Scope & Content:: Certificates of freedom of emancipated peoples on Jamaica. Index is included.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1766-1770
Extent:: 365 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP148/3/1/6
Title:: Manumission Liber: Volume 10 [1769-1772]
Scope & Content:: Certificates of freedom of emancipated peoples on Jamaica.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1769-1772
Extent:: 363 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP148/3/1/7
Title:: Manumission Liber: Volume 11 [1772-1774]
Scope & Content:: Certificates of freedom of emancipated peoples on Jamaica. Folios 1-3 are missing.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772-1774
Extent:: 427 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP148/3/1/8
Title:: Manumission Liber: Volume 12 [1775-1779]
Scope & Content:: Certificates of freedom of emancipated peoples on Jamaica. Index is included.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1775-1779
Extent:: 471 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP148/4
Title:: University of the West Indies: West Indies and Special Collections [1672 - present]
Scope & Content:: The Manuscripts Collection contains documentation from Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, Carriacou, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent. The current inventory focuses on manuscripts from 1672 through 1800. The Collection comprises documents pertaining to slave...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: after 1672
Extent:: 10 files totalling 209 TIFF images

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