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EAP627/2/3/2
- Record Id:
- 040-003413917
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003413904
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060706974.0x00004c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP627/2/3/2
- Title:
- Correspondence, Navy and Overseas Archive, 1794
- Scope & Content:
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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 military unit in the Captaincy of Paraiba (1794); the representation (representação) of sugar-mill estate (engenho) owners and the difficulties that they face owing to a lack of African slaves; logging; declaration (informação) that forests and woodlands on the coast and bordering rivers are royal property and a royal entreaty (solicitação) seeking the return to the Crown of land grants (sesmarias) conceded in the aforementioned locations; the obligation of propertyowners to conserve woodlands; the danger posed to the local economy by the shipment of foodstuffs to Pernambuco; the droughts that occurred between 1791 and 1793, causing the death of cattle and slaves; and the donation of sesmarias in Paraíba (1798).
Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 54 folios, in addition to front and back covers. Manuscript book; contains non-original cover; folios damaged by insects and iron gall ink.
Creator (Author): Paraíba's captain-mayor, Jerônimo José de Mello e Castro; Paraíba's governor, Fernando Delgado Freire de Castilho
- Collection Area:
- Endangered Archives Programme
- Project / Collection:
- Digitisation of secular and ecclesiastical sources in São João do Carirí e João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003413904
036-003413915
040-003413917 - Is part of:
- EAP627/2 : Records of the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Paraibano
EAP627/2/3 : Governmental Correspondence
EAP627/2/3/2 : Correspondence, Navy and Overseas Archive, 1794 - Hierarchy:
- 032-003413904[0003]/036-003413915[0002]/040-003413917
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP627/2
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 112 TIFF images
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP627-2-3-2
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Portuguese
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1794
- End Date:
- 1798
- Date Range:
- 1794-1798
- Era:
- CE
- Latitude (Decimal):
- -7.112366
- Longitude (Decimal):
- -34.844178
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
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- Legal Status:
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