West Indies Original Correspondence : Military Despatches. Vaughan. : Report; List; Newspaper; Correspondence 6 Dec 1779 - 2 Nov 1780.

Format:

Other

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Settler colonialism--West Indies.

Settler colonialism.

Martinique.

Sint Eustatius.

Demerara.

British Virgin Islands.

Saint Lucia.

Essequibo.

Dominica.

Curaçao.

Cayman Islands.

Bermuda Islands.

Berbice.

Barbados.

Bahamas.

Antigua.

Anguilla.

Grenada.

Guadeloupe.

Jamaica.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Turks and Caicos Islands.

Trinidad.

Suriname.

Nevis.

Montserrat.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2021.

Language Note:

English; French

Summary:

Correspondence from Commissioners J Henry and T Coneys, and Secretary Hill. Much of the correspondence concerns administrative matters such as passage arrangements, reports of arrival at various places, their salaries and expenses. Other matters covered are: plan for reforming the courts at Demerara; list of documents transmitted to Commissioner Dwarris; progress of the Commission at Berbice, with various enclosures including a memorial from 'free coloured people' for redress of grievances, an order relating to slave amelioration, legislation concerning the Commissary Court at Demerara, duties of fiscals and appointment of magistrates, appeals, lists of cases and complaints investigated by the commissioners at St Lucia, Demerara, and Berbice, memorial from merchants; report on the case of John Bent who has petitioned about his grievances in the matter of the estate of the late Millikin Craig; accounts of the commissioners; observations on Trinidad; reports on the Bahamas.

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