Grenada, 1770-1827; Oct 1832 - Dec 1833, Offices and Individuals : Acts and Legislation; Returns; Legal document; Minutes; List; Address; Printed book; Petition; Report; Proclamation; Index; Correspondence 1770-1827; Oct 1832 - Dec 1833.

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English

Summary:

Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 101/76. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices (Government Departments): Agents (protest against legislation of the Imperial Parliament which it is claimed might infringe on the rights of the colonial legislature; proceedings of public meeting of proprietors, mortgagees and others on abolition of slavery); Commander in Chief (allowance/salary granted to Lieutenant Governor; request for allowance for table money); James Stephen, legal adviser (note from Agent for Grenada, Mr Marryat, regarding the granting of additional 'privileges' to 'free people of colour'; memorial from Chief Justice Bent regarding salary); Ordnance (proposal to manumit eleven 'slaves' [enslaved persons]); Treasury (salaries of Custom House officers; passage expenses of Major General Sir James Campbell Individuals: Thomas Bigge (forwards papers from Revd William Darnell, Rector of Stanhope, referring to administration of justice in Grenada); James Boucher (medical certificate on state of health; enslaved persons of African descent on estate in Grenada); William Darnell Davis, Attorney General (reply to claims made by Mr Sanderson and the Supreme Court regarding convictions, refers to enslaved person); W Hoyes (Acts relating to improving the conditions of enslaved persons; encloses a written copy of extracts of the Consolidated Slave Act, act relating to payment for manumission of slaves, act relating to the treadmill, act preventing holding markets on the 'Sabbath Day'; religious instruction for enslaved persons); Jeffries ? (leave of absence); Nettering, French Consul (requests information about two French men called Pierre Olivier Drost and his brother Thomas Drost); Henry Otway (Supreme Court of Judicature, Brig Caroline ); Rowley (opposes immediate abolition of slavery, and submits objections and proposed plan); Richardson (employment request); Chief Justice Sanderson (several documents dealing with the dispute with the Attorney General, William Darnell Davis, over his dispute with the Supreme Court; involving the court in special pleadings with those in contempt; case notes of judicial proceedings referring to case of William Cox, a free person of African decent, and of enslaved woman called 'Eliza' committed to jail for 'larceny'; calenders of prisoners confined in jail, which include name of prisoner, sentences, and other remarks; information relating to slavery; extracts of minutes of House of Assembly; printed pamphlet entitled 'Suggestions towards gradual Negro Emancipation, concluding a pamphlet entitled 'Emancipation in Disguise' (by John Sanderson, but anonymously published by Ridgeway & by Richardson - 1807)'; S Stewart (Mr Bent's claim for salary as Chief Justice); Mr O'Hannan, Roman Catholic Pastor (Roman Catholic Church in Grenada); M de Poullain (Roman Catholic Church in Grenada, Mr O'Hannan); Daisey Simmonds [Secretary to the Roman Catholic Committee] & Nelson McBurnie (memorial regarding the Roman Catholic Church and rights of Roman Catholic in Grenada; Mr O'Hannan); Petition of Roman Catholic about right of Roman Catholics in Grenada, according to the petition it is signed by 1,210 people.

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AMDigital Reference:CO 101/77.

CO 101.