Indexes to the Pennsylvania
(adapted from Use of the Published Pennsylvania Archives in Genealogical
Research, Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, 1978)
The
Pennsylvania Archives series I-IX and Colonial Records are located on the first
floor of Bailey Library in the Reference Room. The call number is REF F
146 P41.
|
SERIES |
CONTENTS |
INDEXED |
|
Colonial Records v. 1-16 |
Provincial Council
minutes, 1683-1790; Council of Safety (v. 9-10); Supreme Executive Council
(v. 11-16)--piracy, Indians, land warrants, French & Indian Wars,
Revolutionary War. |
General Index, pp. 1-433 |
|
First Series |
Papers of Secretary of
the Commonwealth, 1664-1790; Brodhead's letters and Frontier Forts, v. 12. |
General Index to each
volume and Index to Colonial Records, pp. 437-653 |
|
Second Series |
Revolutionary War (v. 1);
Colonial Period--marriages, naturalizations, officers and soldiers 1744-1764;
Indian traders (v. 2); Revolutionary Period--oaths of allegiance (v. 3);
Whiskey Rebellion (v. 4); Dutch rule (v. 5); French occupations (v. 6);
French and Indian settlement (v. 7); Marriage Records (v. 8); Marriage
Records and officers (v. 9); Muster rolls (v. 10-11); War of 1812 (v. 12);
Revolutionary War and muster rolls (v. 13-15); Mason and Dixon line (v. 16);
Immigrants 1727-1808 (v. 17); Wyoming controversy (v. 18); Land grants (v.
19). |
Indexes at end of each
volume except v. 8, 9, 10, 11, and 13. Index to v. 13 and 14 at end of v. 14 |
|
Third Series, v. 1-10 |
Land rights and
purchases, tax lists for counties. |
General Index in v. 27,
pp. 1-331, repeats Index from individual volumes |
|
Third Series, v. 11-26 |
Land rights and
purchases, tax lists for counties. |
Indexes in v. 27, pp.
337-790 (A-Co); v. 28 (Co-Ju); v. 29 (Ka-Re); v. 30
(Re-Zy) |
|
Fourth Series |
Governor's Papers |
General Index in v. 12,
pp. 643-963 |
|
Fifth Series |
French and Indian War;
Revolution; muster rolls; militia |
Index in Sixth Series,
v. 15 |
|
Sixth Series |
Revolutionary War;
Military rolls; militia; marriages; War of 1812; Mexican War; Elections; |
Index in Seventh Series |
|
Seventh Series |
Index to Sixth Series
only |
Indexes the Sixth
Series: v. 1 (A-De); v. 2 (De-Hol); v. 3 (Hol-Mic); v. 4 (Mic-Sh); v. 5 (Sha-Z) |
|
Eighth Series |
Journals of the
Provincial Assembly, 1682-1776 |
No published index |
|
Ninth Series |
Executive Minutes of
Governors, 1790-1838 |
No index published |
M. Tomeo, Feb. 2004