Board of Trade and Secretaries of State, America and West Indies, Georgia colony correspondence and records, 1732-1781.

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Board of Trade and Secretaries of State, America and West Indies, Georgia colony correspondence and records, 1732-1781.

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This collection consists of microfilm copies of records concerning colonial Georgia. The original records were kept by the Colonial Office of the Public Records Office in London, which later became the National Archives in Great Britain. The materials are from volumes within the National Archive, and include letters from Georgia Governor James Wright (volumes 664-665); out letters from the Trustees, 1732-1752 (volumes 666-669); entry books of the Trustees, 1732-1740, 1740-1752 (volumes 670-671); entry books for the Board of Trade, 1752-1757, 1752-1762 (volumes 672-674); abstracts of land grants, 1760-1768 (volume 675); entry book of Lord Shelbourne, 1766-1767 (volume 676); entry books of the Secretary of State, 1768-1782, 1767-1781 (volumes 677-680); Acts of the Colonial Georgia Assembly, 1773-1781 (volumes 684-685); Minutes of the Council and Assembly (volumes 692, 697, 701, 704); shipping returns, 1752-1767 (volumes 709-710); and Act of the Progress...1756, the case of Rev. T. Bosomworth (volumes 711-712). The entry books contain copies of dispatches, letters, reports, petitions, commission and instructions. The Acts consists of copies sent to the Privy Council for approval or rejection; they were then forwarded to the Board of Trade. Some of the records in this collection correspond with the Colonial Records of the State of Georgia (Candler. Atlanta, Ga.: Franklin Print. and Pub. Co., 1904): the letters from Gov. James Wright correspond with Colonial Records volumes 37-38; out letters from the Trustees correspond with Colonial Records volumes 29-31; and the Minutes of Council and Assembly correspond with Colonial Records volumes 6-17. These records were microfilmed by the National Archives of Great Britain in 1957 and 1990. Microfilm rolls 1-4 are safety film (acetate).

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