# Board papers sit inside a completed plantation-governance file

Date: 1696

## The fact

Shared board minutes as later catalogues. Extraction-adjacent office. The dated public instrument is stored under 1696-06-15. [John Locke](/people/john-locke) did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.

It is one event.

## Context

Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.

John Locke Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.

John Locke’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Conventional 1632–1704. Dated instruments are Gutenberg TMS-no: Treatises, Essay, Letter, SEP, Bodleian, and TNA catalogues.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

The National Archives — later Board of Trade and 1690s papers as catalogues and Documenting the American South — later Carolina constitutions texts independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: The National Archives — later Board of Trade and 1690s papers as catalogues (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/; The National Archives (UK)).

## Significance

Shared board minutes as later catalogues. Extraction-adjacent office.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by John Locke.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `institutional-corruption` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. John Locke did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct.

## People

- John Locke: https://factrail.ai/people/john-locke

## Drivers

- Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption

## Sources

- https://docsouth.unc.edu/
- https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jlk-board-plantation-file
