Have a little experience with this subject as i live in the county that has the oldest continuous court records in the United States. The paper certainly look authentic and the ink does as well. Binded paper as in books are prone to rot as they hold in moisture but unbinded papers can last hundreds of years. The court records i speak of are over 350 years old and date well before the founding of our country. Anybody interested can search for these online. They are located in the Eastville courthouse in Northhampton County Virginia. To the question of weather and humidity.....well many will attest that a summer on a 11 mile wide, 90 mile long penisula with temps in the high 90s and humidity also in the 90 percent range for 3 months out of the year and our location surrounded by water will match Jamaicas pretty close. And although these papers are only weather records that in no way diminishes their historical value. Im surprised Rob that you dont see the importance of the Jamaican goverment needing to perserve these. After all they have gone thru a great deal of time and expense to collect and preserve hundreds of clay pipes from the Port Royal site. How do these one of a kind records not compare to hundreds of pipes. This type of history and the preservation of it so important to the idenity of a country. These are pure Jamican unlike pipes made for sailors in Denmark by the thousands for sailors that can be found all over the globe. Alright I am done ranting and apologize if I have upset anybody....was not my intention, but as a historian I felt the need to point out the importance of these records. After all if they were not interesting why did so many tourists take pictures of them?Originally Posted by Papa Georgie
March 1898! I wasn't seeing things! Thought my memory had failed me.
