| Call Number: | MIC-Loyalist FC LPR .G7C6R4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name: | Great Britain. Colonial Office | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title: | Records in the British Public Record Office Relating to South Carolina: 1663-1782 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: | 11 microfilm reels of textual records; 35 mm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Background Information: |
At the end of the nineteenth century, W. Noel Sainsbury of London arranged the records that make up this micro-reproduction from material in the Colonial Office Series in the British Public Record Office, now The National Archives. The records are here reproduced in facsimile from the transcripts made by Mr. Sainsbury for the Historical Commission of the State of South Carolina. The documents transcribed were originally found in three series, Colonial Entry Books, America and West Indies, and Board of Trade Papers, all classed under Colonial Office Records. Colonial Entry Books represent the accumulations of the Secretary of State, the Privy Council and the various bodies that had to do with the plantations after 1660. America and West Indies is composed of a great variety of documents relating to the colonies that, until 1768, came into the hands of the Secretary of State for the Southern Department, and of the Secretary of State for the Colonies thereafter. They contain large numbers of documents relating to the policy of the government as formulated in the despatches of the Secretary of State. Board of Trade, in origin, did not constitute a separate department of government; it was legally only a body of advisers to the Crown. In 1696, King William III appointed eight paid commissioners to promote trade in the American plantations and elsewhere. The Lords Commissioners of Trade and Foreign Plantations were commonly known as the Board of Trade. The duties of the Board were rather the protecting and furthering of trade and commerce than the administration of the colonies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Contents: |
The Colonial Office Records have been rearranged topographically so that as far as possible everything relating to a particular colony will be found under the name of that colony. Contents: The transcriptions made by Sainsbury omitted much statistical matter; acts and journals of the provincial council and assembly; and duplicates and drafts of British state papers. Many enclosures, such as, copies of acts, extracts from minutes, or statistical reports, were not included; but the fact that the document has been omitted is almost always noted. The records have been organised by Sainsbury chronologically, but the original reference is located on each document, including the volume and page number; for example, A & W.I. denotes America and West Indies. The material includes the following records denoting the current reference:
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| Originals: | The transcriptions from which this material was filmed is held at the South Carolina Archives. The originals from which the transcriptions were made are held at the Public Record Office, now known as The National Archives in Kew, England. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other Numbers: | South Carolina Archives Microcopy Number 1 or SC-Ar M/1; PRO CO 5/ 13-14, 16-29, 116-117, 211-214, 286-292, 297, 358-380, 383-396, 400-405, 407-408, 410, 1258, 1260-1265, 1287-1293, 1318; CO 323/33; CO 324/4, 10, 49-50; CO 391/1-3, 6, 9-15, 17-18, 22, 25-34, 36-82 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finding Aids: |
Microfilm Shelf List giving the reel numbers and corresponding volume numbers is available in print. An accompanying pamphlet is also available in print. A two-volume index consisting of names of persons and of names of places and topics is found on reel 12. CO 5/13-20, the character of the letters and despatches can be learned from the published Correspondence of William Pitt, when Secretary of State, with Colonial Governors and Military and Naval Commissioners in America (HIL-STACKS E199 .P68 1969 v.1 and 2). For a more detailed understanding of the contents of this collection, see Guide to the Materials for American History, to 1783, in the Public Record Office of Great Britain, vol. 1 (HIL-MICGDL E188 .A52). In particular there is a detailed listing of the Petitions in CO 5/116-117. At the back of the book is a key to the Colonial Office Papers which cross references the old references, such as A & W.I. vol. 2 with its current reference, CO 5/898. For a listing of departmental officials, see the series: Office-holders in Modern Britain located in the Loyalist Collection. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Notes: |
In relation to CO 5/ 13-20, these volumes should be used in conjunction with CO 5/48-64 found in the Loyalist Collection under the call number, FC LMR .G7C6A4C6M5. There are some notes in the margins referring to other pages in the papers on the same subject matter. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other With: | Reel 1, vols. 1-5, 1663-1710 is on reel 6 of Colonial Records of South Carolina located in the Loyalist Collection under the call number, FC LPR .A4P8C6S6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Loyalist Collection is located within the Microforms Department at the Harriet Irving Library.
Last update: 2012/12