Great Britain - Treasury - Treasury Board papers [T.1], 1783-1840

PRO 3551
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fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

432253

Photocopy : PRO 3551 (T.1/653-671, includes a 1788 Muster).
Photocopy : Contents list (167pp.) for the 1783-1819 records, T.1/570-1880 (PRO 3549-3569, 4660).
Photocopy : Contents list (63pp.) for the 1818-1824 records, T.1/1766-2315 (PRO 4660-4665).

6 microfilm reels 35 mm

Correspondence to the Treasury Board from other government agencies, the colonies, and from individuals. Papers include: arrangements for the foundation of the penal colony in New South Wales, despatch of the First Fleet, and the Australian and Antarctic expeditions. Topics range from banking to postal and telegraph matters, whaling and fisheries. The class of records includes papers, 1793-1794, relating to Aboriginal Australians, e.g. Bennelong & others: T.1/733, documents 511, 2124, 2238, 2366, and T.1/735, document 2711 (PRO 3555-3556). See also T.1/2315 (PRO 4665): clothes for Female Natives at NSW, 1824.
The T.1 series also includes papers relating to the convict hulks or prison ships, 1783-1803, in T.1/587-901 (PRO 3549-3560). Includes a detailed statement of costs and various returns of prisoners on board hulks awaiting transportation. The latter hulk returns of prisoners record: name, age, when & where convicted, sentence, and occasionally the state of health and when & where discharged.

Original held by the National Archives (Great Britain), formerly the Public Record Office, London.

Refer to the National Library of Australia’s AJCP Portal (https://www.nla.gov.au/content/australian-joint-copying-project) for information on Australian Joint Copying Project reels digitised in 2019/20
National Library of Australia holds the microfilm masters.
Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales.
Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 6 : Board of Trade; Treasury; Exchequer and Audit Department; Privy Council; Board of Longitude - Class and piece list, pp.25-34.
Public Record Office: T.1/587-4394.
Originals held in the Public Record Office, London.