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This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.
Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1,000 items) |
Abstract | The collection contains photostats, typed transcriptions, and microfilm copies of miscellaneous records from the British Public Record Office, arranged loosely into series as follows: records of cases in Chancery and the Star Chamber, 1600-circa 1630; port records of sailings, exports, imports, duties, etc., for forty British North American ports, 1768-1773; selected pages containing records, 1733-1770, relating to church silver supplied to North Carolina colonial governors Johnston, Dobbs, Tryon, and Martin; correspondence, 1758-1763, between North Carolina governor Arthur Dobbs (1689-1765) and the successive commanders of British forces in North America, including James Abercrombie, John Campbell, fourth Earl of Loudoun, and Jeffery Amherst (bound typescripts); fragment of a government account book, undated (18th century, 10 pages); account of the Gross Produce of the Stamp Duties for the year ending August 1, 1713; correspondence and reports, 1663-1782, of the royal governors of Carolina and North Carolina with various departments of the British government, including land records and legislative journals (30 microfilm reels); disbursement records of the militia and loyalist refugees at Charleston, 1780-1782 (5 microfilm reels); and a list of the names of members of the Company of the Levant, circa 1606. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, May 2011
This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.
Some items, including microfilm and a bound volume of correspondence, 1758-1763, have been transferred to the North Carolina Collection.
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The collection contains photostats, typed transcriptions, and microfilm copies of miscellaneous records from the British Public Record Office, arranged loosely into series as follows: records of cases in Chancery and the Star Chamber, 1600-circa 1630; port records of sailings, exports, imports, duties, etc., for forty British North American ports, 1768-1773; selected pages containing records, 1733-1770, relating to church silver supplied to North Carolina colonial governors Johnston, Dobbs, Tryon, and Martin; correspondence, 1758-1763, between North Carolina governor Arthur Dobbs (1689-1765) and the successive commanders of British forces in North America, including James Abercrombie, John Campbell, fourth Earl of Loudoun, and Jeffery Amherst (bound typescripts); fragment of a government account book, undated (18th century, 10 pages); account of the Gross Produce of the Stamp Duties for the year ending August 1, 1713; correspondence and reports, 1663-1782, of the royal governors of Carolina and North Carolina with various departments of the British government, including land records and legislative journals (30 microfilm reels); disbursement records of the militia and loyalist refugees at Charleston, 1780-1782 (5 microfilm reels); and a list of the names of members of the Company of the Levant, circa 1606.
Back to TopFolder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Oversize Volume SV-1609/1-2
SV-1609/1SV-1609/2 |
Records of cases in Chancery and the Star Chamber, 1600-circa 1630 |
Oversize Volume SV-1609/3 |
Port records, 1768-1773 |
Folder 3 |
The Lord Chamberlain's Warrant Books, 1733-1770 (photostatic copies |
Folder 5 |
Fragment of account book, undated, circa 18th century |
Folder 6 |
Accounts for stamp duties, 1712-1713 |
Folder 9 |
State papers, Levant Company, circa 1606 (photocopies) |