- Call Number:
- HIL-MICL FC LPR .A4P8C6D4
- Category:
- United States
- Creator:
- America. Public Records.
- Material Description:
- 4 microfilm textual records (5 titles) ; 35 mm
- Background:
Research Publications has assembled and microfilmed the most important published colonial and state records of the original Thirteen Colonies, Maine and Vermont. The series is comprised of sixty-seven titles which span the years from the earliest available records for each colony until approximately 1800.
- Contents:
Some or all of the material is available online; see Finding Aids.
The Colonial Records of Delaware have been microfilmed on four reels and contain ten volumes of material.
CR 6. Delaware Archives, 5 vols. Volume 1 and Volume 2 contain military and naval records from the colonial period. There is a cumulative personal name index for both volumes at the end of Volume 2. Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5 are devoted to the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. There is a personal name index at the end of Volume 3 and Volume 5.
CR 7. The Instruction for Johan Printz, Governor of New Sweden. The First Constitution or Supreme Law of the States of Pennsylvania and Delaware. Translated from Swedish with Introduction, Notes and Appendices. A subject and personal name index is located at the end of the volume
CR 8.Minutes of the Council of the Delaware State, 1776-1790.
CR 9. Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Government of the Counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex upon Delaware, 1765-1770.
CR 10. Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware Volume 1, 1676-1681; Volume 2, 1682-1699. Each volume contains an Index of Persons at the end of the volume.
- Archival Ref. No.:
CR 6 - CR 10.
- Finding Aids:
Online: Delaware Archives is available electronically via Internet Archive website at archive.org
A microfilm shelf list which correlates the microform reel numbers with the volume numbers is available in print and as a PDF.
- PDF Finding Aid:
- Public Records Colonial Records of Delaware Shelf List.pdf Finding-Aid_Delaware-Archives_America-Public-Records.pdf
- Related Records:
Published American Colonial Records