Barbados, 1838, Offices and Individuals : Newspaper clipping; Report; Financial document; List; Petition; Memorial; Index; Correspondence 26 Apr 1837 - 27 Dec 1838.

Format:

Other

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Letter writing.

Letters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals relating to Barbados. Correspondence from the bishop of Barbados for 1838 is bound separately [see CO 28/153]. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices: Admiralty (appointment of Major General Sir Evan Murray John McGregor as governor and commander in chief); Agent (his defence against accusations of 'oppression, injustice and cruelty of the Negroe Race' levelled at the proprietors and legislature of Barbados; recommends caution in accepting claim of cruelty to an apprentice made by Marquis of Sligo; lack of sufficient small denomination currency to pay wages; improvement of packet service; reports situation following termination of the apprenticeship system); Commander in Chief (increased barrack and hospital accommodation; case of eleven captured African women and thirteen children considered to be the property of the Crown and therefore entitled to barrack accommodation; restoration of hospital pavilion); Council Office (disallowance of Act No. 638; appointment of Henry Thornhill to Council); Foreign Office (British 'negroes' illegally detained in slavery at Texas); Law Officers (opinion on Act No. 655); Board of Ordnance (hospital accommodation); Treasury (memorial of Reverend William Birdsall, a Catholic priest, and Donald Sinclair, a solicitor, offering to give information about treasure alleged to be secreted in one of the West Indian islands in return for a reward or share; cost of transporting two military convicts to the UK; supply of small denomination coin; escheated property of the late Ephraim Potter; legislation to exempt alcohol imported for the use of the army and navy from payment of colonial duties; barrack and hospital accommodation; restoration of hospital pavilion; passage allowances for special magistrates; expenses of Auxilliary Commission of Slave Compensation; instructions to officer in charge of Commissariat to afford assistance to the governor); War Office (reinforcements of troops required at Halifax, Nova Scotia; application for half pay from Captain Adam Cuppage, judge of the Assistant Court of Appeal at Barbados) Individuals: J Bezant (application for post of special magistrate); John Burke (seeks news of his brother-in-law Alexander Trotter); John Briggs (calls for the appointment of 'black' men to the legislature and magistracy); Mary Conlan and Margery Conlan (claim on the property of the late Thomas Corcoran); Lord Clements (seeks appointment for Mr Hutchinson, magistrate, in the Assistant Court of Appeal); C H Darling (seeks appointment as colonial secretary); Andrew G Drunan (invoice for 18 month's subscription to Barbados Globe newspaper); Thomas Downey (estate of Mr Corcoran); W Erle (recommends Mr Thomas Hull Terrell for a law appointment); Draft Colonial Office despatch to governor concerning request from Mr Hunt Grubbe for information about unappropriated lands in Barbados); John S Gaskin (requests extension of leave); Captain J Hamilton (claims of his nephew Commander Joseph Hamilton RN to be retained in office of stipendiary magistrate); Commander J N Hough (requests reappointment as stipendiary magistrate); Benjamin Ifill (requests extension of leave); T Morgan (property of the late Patrick James or James Patrick Corcoran); Augusta M Mathews (seeks further financial assistance in respect of the service of her late husband [see further correspondence in CO 28/121]); Archdeacon Thomas Parry (favourable reports from the islands); Charles Phipps (requests assistance or employment; recommends a measure for abolishing the United States slave trade); Lieutenant Colonel Reid (asks who was governor of Barbados in 1780 at the time of the 'Great Hurricane'); Joseph Sturge (case of cruelty against an apprentice [with account of case of Robert Cox 'a poor hard labouring free black man'); John Scoble (state of the gaol; attack on his character [with newpaper cuttings]); L Tierney (property of his late brother); Thomas H Terrell (application for appointment as attorney general); D H Wilson (requests assistance for John Thompson [see correspondence in CO 28/121]).

Notes:

AMDigital Reference:CO 28/126.

CO 28.