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:''Colonial Office List'' (to 1925) and the later title ''The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List'' are available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01002841625 and UIN: BLL01007173533
*Comments about [https://archive.org/details/registrumecclesi00burnrich/page/236 "The registers of Persons Baptised etc Abroad: The West Indies"] page 237 ''Registrum ecclesiae parochialis : the history of parish registers in England : also of the registers of Scotland, Ireland, the East and West Indies...'' by John Southerden Burn 2nd edition 1862 Archive.org. Refers to some early Baptisms and Burials from Barbados in the "State Paper Office", now The National Archives at Kew, but it is unknown whether these records are still available. See [[West Indies#Other records|Other records]] above.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishnavaloper00nees/page/n1 ''The British Naval Operations in the West Indies, 1650-1700; a study in naval administration''] by Robert W Neeser. "Reprinted from the ''United States Naval Institute Proceedings'', vol. 40, no. 6, whole no. 154, Nov.-Dec., 1914." Archive.org
*''The British Empire in America : containing the history of the discovery, settlement, progress and present state of all the British colonies, on the continent and islands of America. The Second Volume. Being an account of the country, soil, climate, product and trade of Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincents, Dominico, Antego, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Christophers, Barbuda, Anguilla, Jamaica, the Bahama and Bermudas Islands. With curious maps of the several places done from the newest surveys'' [by John Oldmixon] [https://archive.org/details/britishempireina04oldm/page/n3 1708 edition], [https://archive.org/details/britishempireina02oldm/page/n10 Second edition, Corrected and Amended 1741] Archive.org
*''A descriptive account of the island of Jamaica: with remarks upon the cultivation of the sugar-cane, throughout the different seasons of the year, and chiefly considered in a picturesque point of view; also observations and reflections upon what would probably be the consequences of an abolition of the slave-trade, and of the emancipation of the slaves'' by William Beckford 1790. [https://archive.org/details/adescriptiveacc02beckgoog/page/n7 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/adescriptiveacc03beckgoog/page/n6 Volume II] Archive.org.
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