(This is technically NOT one of John's "Germanna Notes", but he posted it to the GERMANNA_COLONIES Mailing List and I feel it deserves posting here. It contains some very important documents where useful genealogical data might be found for us Germanna researchers. GWD-Website Manager)
From John Blankenbaker:
I pulled this from the website for National Archives of Great Britian which includes the Public Record Office:
"19.1. America and the West Indies
"References to the settlement of America before 1782 can be found in our Research Guide American and West Indian Colonies . In addition a considerable amount of information on emigrants to and settlers in America and the West Indies can be found in printed works available as above. The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, America and West Indies, 1574-1738 (London 1860-1969) includes brief descriptions, which are indexed, of the Colonial Papers, General Series (CO 1) and the Board of Trade Minutes 1675-1704 (CO 391) ; the Journals of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, 14 volumes (London, 1920-1938) contain a full printed version of the Minutes from 1704-1782. Original correspondence as well as Sessional Papers, Entry Books, and Miscellanea are described in the Public Record Office Lists and Indexes No XXXVI List of Colonial Office records (New York, Kraus Reprint 1963) and C. M. Andrews Guide to the Material for American History to 1793 in the Public Record Office of Great Britain, 2 volumes (Washington 1912 and 1914) , although the references in this may need to be converted to modern references. The Calendar of Treasury Books 1660-1718 and the Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers 1729-1745 as above should also be consulted.
"Many authors have used the Public Records to compile lists of immigrants, and in addition there are numerous composite lists which include American records of passengers and immigrants which were compiled on arrival. Ship Passenger Lists (California, 1977-80) edited by Carl Boyer and Passenger and Immigration Lists Index (Michigan, 1981) edited by P. W. Filby are two of the more important as well as the continuing series of volumes published by the Genealogical Publishing Company. The Colonial Papers, General Series , as well as the Registers for Passengers Requiring Licences to Travel to New England, Barbados, Maryland, Virginia, and Other Colonies 1634-1639 and 1677 (E 157) were used by J. C. Hotten to compile Original Lists of Persons Emigrating to America 1600-1700 (London 1874) .
"Lists of names of Palatine subjects who emigrated to America via Holland and England in 1709 are contained in several series of records of the Colonial Office and the Treasury, many being printed in W. A. Knittle's Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration (Philadelphia, 1937) , L. D. MacWethy's The books of Names Especially Relating to the Early Palatines and the First Settlers of the Mohawk Valley (New York, 1933) , and in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Records, vols XL and XLI (New York, 1909 and 1910) .
"P. W. Coldham's Bonded Passengers to America (Baltimore, 1983) covers all the available manuscript material on convicted felons who were transported from Middlesex (1617-1775) and the Western, Oxford, Norfolk, Northern and Midland Assize circuits (1663-1775). See also our Research Guide Transportation to America and the West Indies, 1615-1776 .
"David Dobson's Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America 1625-1825 (Baltimore, 1984) used Audit Office accounts(AO 3), Prince Edward Island Original Correspondence (CO 226/23) , Home Office Correspondence and Papers, Scotland (HO 102) , and the Treasury Registers (T 47) amongst other sources from elsewhere. Much detailed work on emigrants listed in the Registers in T 47/9-11 (1773-1776) has also been published by Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West (I B Tauris, 1986) . There is a card index to the same in the Reference Room at Kew.
"An index to American Loyalist Claimants from the Minute Books of the Claims Commission (T 79) is printed in Public Record Office Lists and Indexes No XLVI Records of the Treasury, the Paymaster General's Office, the Exchequer and Audit Department and the Board of Trade to 1837 (London 1922) p 105-110 ; a similar list of East Florida Claims for Compensation for Territory Ceded in 1783 to Spain is in the same volume, p 95-97.
" West New Jersey Society records 1675-1921 (TS 12) relate to tracts of land in West and East New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New England, and elsewhere divided up as shares of the West New Jersey Society, a company formed about 1691. The records contain many names in original correspondence, minute books, registers of shares, original deeds, papers about claims, etc.
"Ira A. Glazier has edited Lists of Irish Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New York in The Famine Immigrants (Baltimore, 1983) .
"Maps of early divisions of land often provide names of emigrants.
"For further information check the website for the US National Archives and Records Administration at
www.archives.gov
. External website - link opens in a new window."
(10 Apr 07)
We gratefully acknowledge the work of John Blankenbaker who published over 2,500 Germanna History Notes via the Germanna-L@rootsweb.com email list from 1997 to 2008. We are equally thankful to George Durman (Sgt. George) for hosting the list and republishing the notes via rootsweb.com.