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EAP627/3/1/3
- Record Id:
- 040-003414003
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003413999
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060706974.0x0000a2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP627/3/1/3
- Title:
- Plots of Land 1722-1727 / Land Grants (sesmarias) 1722-1727
- Scope & Content:
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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 Carvalho de Vasconcellos, Thomaz D’Araujo Pereira, João Monteiro, Pedro da Costa D’Azevedo, and others. Requests came from the Captaincy (Capitania) of Paraíba, specifically from residents of the sertão do Curimatau, sertão do Cariri, and others. Reasons given for requesting land include: discovery of land at own cost; need for more land for livestock; need for more land for crops; and battles with Indians. The grants were given in the backlands of the sertão do Cariri, sertão do Curimatau, at the sítio Boa Vista, Serra Botopitá, Gentio Acaã-Capi-Canju and Feri, and others. Land dimensions were described as three leagues wide and one long and as two leagues wide and one long. Plots were described as fallow or occupied by purchase. Donations were granted under the administrations of Antonio Velho Coelho (1722-1727) and Francisco Pedro de Mendonça Gurjão (1728-1734).
Created by the Paraíba Captaincy's Government
Extent and format of original material: 1 manuscript volume of 198 folios, in addition to front and back covers. . Manuscript book, with non-original hardcover. Severely damaged by acidity of the paper and iron gall ink. Some folios are torn. Volume is numerated through folio 193.
Creator (Author): Capitães mores da Paraíba: Antonio Velho Coelho e Francisco Pedro de Mendonça Gurjão
- 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:
- 032-003413999
036-003414000
040-003414003 - Is part of:
- EAP627/3 : Records of the Arquivo Histórico Waldemar Bispo Duarte
EAP627/3/1 : Land Grants (Registro de Sesmarias)
EAP627/3/1/3 : Plots of Land 1722-1727 / Land Grants (sesmarias) 1722-1727 - Hierarchy:
- 032-003413999[0001]/036-003414000[0003]/040-003414003
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP627/3
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 400 TIFF images
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP627-3-1-3
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Portuguese
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1701
- End Date:
- 1734
- Date Range:
- 1701-1734
- 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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