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==Archives==
[[England The National Archives|National Archives at Kew, England]]
[[England The National Archives|National Archives at Kew, England]]
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''Website:'' [https://museums-ioj.org.jm/ National Museum of Jamaica]
''Website:'' [https://museums-ioj.org.jm/ National Museum of Jamaica]
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'''The National Archives'''<br>Kew, Richmond<br>Surrey TW9 4DU<br>England<br>Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8876 3444<br>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/contact/contactform.asp?id=9 Contact form]<br>Internet: [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ UK National Archives]
:Records for Jamaica include: Colonial Office correspondence, sessional papers, various slave marriages, 1821-1825, Inhabitants of Port Royal and St. John's 1680, St. Andres' parish: Landholders 1754, return of land grants, 1735-1754, return of land grants, 1805-1824. Micellaneous recors of slave returns, list of convicts, and workhouse returns.
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'''British Library at St. Pancras'''<br>96 Euston Road<br>London NW1 2DB<br>England<br> [http://www.bl.uk www.bl.uk]
:Collection includes: ''A Collection of all the Monumental Inscriptions Prior to 1750 in Barbados, also Similar Inscriptions in Jamaica'' by J H Lawrence-Archver 1857-58; 312 Abstracts of WIlls of English Colonists or Landholders with Jamican Connexions, Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1625-1792 by Mrs V T C Smith.


'''World Jewish Conference''' provides a history of Jews in Jamaica.<br>
'''World Jewish Conference''' provides a history of Jews in Jamaica.<br>