- Call Number:
- HIL-MICL FC LPR .A4P8C6M3
- Category:
- United States
- Creator:
- America. Public Records.
- Material Description:
- 9 microfilm textual records (2 titles) ; 35 mm
- Background:
Research Publications has assembled and made available in microfilm the most important published colonial and state records of the original Thirteen Colonies, Maine and Vermont. The series is comprised of sixty-seven titles and spans the years from the earliest available records of each colony until approximately 1800. The records of Maine have been included until the year 1916, which is the publication date of the Baxter Manuscripts.
- Contents:
- The Colonial Records of Maine have been microfilmed on nine reels and contain twenty-nine volumes of material.
CR 14. Province and Court Records of Maine, 1636-1711. 5 vols. Volume 1, 1663-1668; Volume 2, York County Court Records, 1653-1679; Volume 3, Province of Maine Records, 1680-1692; Volume 4, Court Records of York County 1692-1710/1711; Volume 5, Court Records of York County, 1711-1718. A preface and list of contents is located at the beginning of each volume. A subject/name index follows the text of each volume.
CR 15. Not used by the publisher.
CR 16. Documentary History of the State of Maine. 24 volumes. Volume 1, History of the Discovery of Maine by J. G. Kohl; Volume 2, Discourse on Western Planting written in the year 1584 by Richard Hakluyt. Volume 3, The Trelawyn Papers; Volume 4 - Volume 6, Baxter Manuscripts; Volume 7 - Volume 8, Farnham Papers; Volume 9 - Volume 24, Baxter Manuscripts.
- Archival Ref. No.:
- CR 14, CR 16
- Finding Aids:
A microfilm shelf list which correlates the microfilm reel numbers with the Colonial Record numbers and the volume numbers has been created by the author of the Loyalist Collection Inventory. The Microfilm Shelf List is available in print with the Loyalist Collection Finding Aids and as a PDF in the electronic finding aid section.
- PDF Finding Aid:
- Public Records Colonial Records of Maine Shelf List.pdf Finding-Aid_Colonial-Records-Maine_America-Public-Records.pdf
- Notes:
The Documentary History of the State of Maine is available in book form at the Harriet Irving Library, University of New Brunswick.
Records of the American Colonies, published documents--legislation, court proceedings, records, correspondence, etc.--from the 13 original colonies and their predecessors available through HathiTrust.
- Related Records:
- Published American Colonial Records