Research


Scope and Content Note

This series consists of typewritten transcripts of New York Colonial Council minutes from the period after 1673. The transcripts were created as part of an effort to follow up prior publication of Council minutes from 1668-1673 with an edition including subsequent years. The transcripts contain extensive edits and annotations in pencil, as well as handwritten comments regarding the readability of photostatic copies of duplicate original minutes on file in the Public Record Office in London. Bracketed notations of missing text are common. Each transcript page includes a reference to the volume and pages of either the original Council papers (most often) or the original Council minutes (infrequently) to which the text corresponds.