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New Sweden
This is an English-language calendar of manuscript material relating to the Swedish colony of New Sweden (Nya Sverige) on the Delaware River, covering the years 1636–1693. The calendar summarises the surviving papers in Riksarkivet (the Swedish National Archives) A 757/16/C/3, vol. 196, including Swedish, Dutch, German, Latin and English items. It is intended as a research-ready guide for historians of early Swedish colonialism, the Delaware Valley, Dutch–Swedish–English interactions, and Indigenous–European relations in the mid-seventeenth century. This calendar can be used as a source in and of itself, or as a finding aid to consult the manuscripts.
Ó Siochrú, Micheál, and Gerard Farrell. “English Translations of Papers Relating to New Sweden in Riksarkivet RA757/16/C/3 Vol.196 (1636–1693)”. Zenodo, December 3, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17807322
Barbados
This dataset contains a transcription of the minutes of the Barbados Assembly and Governor’s Council for the years 1654–1658. The material derives from Colonial Office records held at The National Archives, Kew (TNA), reference CO 30/1, and ultimately from original records preserved at the Barbados Archives. The present text is a lightly modernised version of a typescript produced in Barbados in the 1930s. That typescript was itself made from the seventeenth-century originals. The transcription preserves the structure, sequence, and substance of the minutes while regularising spelling, punctuation, and layout to improve readability. The minutes record the routine business of colonial government in mid-seventeenth-century Barbados, including judicial proceedings, petitions, appointments to office, financial orders, regulation of trade and excise, punishment of offences, administration of estates, and matters relating to defence, labour, and public order. Collectively, they provide detailed insight into the political, legal, and social workings of the island during the period of the English Commonwealth and Protectorate. The material spans approximately 1654–1658 and is presented as a continuous running text rather than as discrete document-level records.
Ó Siochrú, Micheál, and David Brown. “Barbados Assembly Minutes, TNA CO 30/1 (1654–1658)”. Zenodo, January 23, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18352616
Surinam
This dataset contains digitised English translations of seventeenth-century Dutch documents relating to the colony of Surinam, held in the Nationaal Archief (National Archives of the Netherlands), The Hague, archive NL-HaNA 1.05.03, inventory number 558. The material includes printed proclamations, resolutions of the States General and the States of Zeeland, financial accounts of expeditions to Surinam, contracts and charters for the Society of Suriname, and detailed narrative reports from the colonial government. It covers topics such as the cession of Surinam, Dutch–English diplomatic negotiations, the departure of English inhabitants, colonial administration, finance and provisioning, and plantation society. The documents span approximately 1664–1695. Each row in the dataset (in the future CSV version) will represent a single document-level unit (e.g. proclamation, resolution, account, memorandum, narrative report, or similar item).
Ó Siochrú, Micheál, and David Brown. “English Translations of Dutch Surinam Records, NL-HaNA 1.05.03, Inv. 558 (1664–1695)”. Zenodo, November 28, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17751935
Martinique
This dataset contains digitised English translations of French manuscript documents from the Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer (Aix-en-Provence), Secrétariat d’État à la Marine, Correspondance à l’arrivée de la Martinique, volume COL C8 A 1, covering approximately 1663–1683. The texts originate from the published/online images of the original manuscripts and have been processed, corrected, and standardised for research use. They include royal and company correspondence, ordinances, memoranda, reports, and other administrative documents relating to the government, commerce, defence and social conditions of Martinique and other French Caribbean colonies. Each row in the dataset represents a single document-level unit (e.g. letter, memorandum, ordinance, report, or other item-level text).
Ó Siochrú, Micheál, and David Brown. “English Translations of Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer: Martinique Correspondence, COL C8 A 1 (1663–1683)”. Zenodo, November 26, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17725644
Acadia
This dataset contains digitised English translations of seventeenth-century French documents relating to the colony of Acadia, held in the Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer (Aix-en-Provence), Secrétariat d’État à la Marine – Acadie, volume CAOM COL C11 D/1, covering the period 1603–1685. Acadia was a colony of New France in northeastern North America. In early modern terms it extended along the Atlantic coast roughly between the 40th and 46th parallels; in modern geography it corresponded chiefly to present-day mainland Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, together with parts of the Gaspé Peninsula and the region of Maine east of the Kennebec River. The documents in this volume include royal commissions and letters patent, memoranda and remonstrances to the king, contracts and grants, narrative descriptions of the coasts and settlements, and administrative material concerning governors, lieutenants, forts, and seigneurial rights in Acadia and neighbouring regions. A CSV version of the dataset provides one row per document-level unit (e.g. commission, memorandum, descriptive report, contract, or legal memorandum).
Ó Siochrú, Micheál, and David Brown. “English Translations of ANOM Acadia Records, COL C11 D/1 (1603–1685)”. Zenodo, November 28, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17752204
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