Proprietary Government, Minutes (The Provincial Record), Volume L, 1747-1748 to Volume M, 1748-1755, This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education., Arranged chronologically by date of meeting except for Volume C. In this volume, minutes for the period from April 26, 1693 to December 18, 1700 will be found in various places. All volumes except R,S,T and U are indexed internally. The published minutes are indexed externally, alphabetically by name and subject in General Index to the Colonial Records of Pennsylvania in 16 Volumes and the Pennsylvania Archives in 12 Volumes prepared and arranged by Samuel Hazard (Philadelphia: 1860). Minutes of the proceedings of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania covering the period from March 10, 1682/3 to December 9, 1775. It is believed that the earliest records and minutes of the Provincial Council were kept on loose sheets of paper and only later recorded in books as evidenced by the frequent long intervals of dates and blank spaces left for documents. Many of the loose sheets are in the handwriting of Secretary of Proprietary Affairs James Logan and some of these have been recorded in volumes while others were preserved by members of Logan's family who deposited them among several societies. At a subsequent period, it is believed that an attempt was made to collect and record in volumes as many of these loose sheets as could be obtained. In 1776 Secretary of the Provincial Council Joseph Shippen turned the bound volumes over to John Penn, who in turn delivered them to the Supreme Executive Council in 1780. Commencing in 1837, these minutes were published in the Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: 1837, 1838, 1852). The original minute books then passed into the custody of the State Library where they became the nucleus of its Archives Division in 1903. Information provided is date of meeting, names of those present, a description of the business transacted, and transcripts of important correspondence received or sent. Disclaimer: The Pennsylvania State Archives provides digital access to a wide variety of historical documents, some of which may be considered offensive by current standards. The Archives does not endorse views expressed in these historical collections, but presents these collections to aid in scholarly research.
