West India Miscellaneous, 1837, Individuals : Memorial; Report; Printed book; Plans and Illustrations; Newspaper clipping; Acts and Legislation; Petition; Financial document; Order; Index; Correspondence; Returns 1832; Apr 1835; Jan 1837 - Mar 1838; Aug 1838.

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English

Summary:

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Letters from individuals on matters relating to the West Indies. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: John J Atkins & Son (copy of letter from Lieutenant D'Urban relating to the capture of the Portuguese slaver Don Francisco ); Captain J Alves (his observations on the apprenticeship system); Alfred Barrett (seeks appointment as stipendiary magistrate); W & F Buckmaster (seeks address of Captain Granby Hales Calcraft); Charles Burney (seeks appointment as stipendiary magistrate); Cox & Company (requests certificates for obtaining salaries of certain officials); J N Creighton (seeks appointment as stipendiary magistrate); Louis Alexandre Henri Christophe (memorial seeking property of his late brother King Christophe of Haiti); Timothy Connor (asks if his brother Thomas is alive); Fortunatus Dwarris (seeks knighthood); John Dennett (details of rocket apparatus for preserving lives from shipwreck [with printed pamphlet and drawing showing 'mode of carrying Dennett's Rockets']); Captain R Fair (defects in present slave trade treaties with Spain and Portugal); Thomas Graham (seeking financial assistance); Willington Guernsey (seeks appointment as stipendiary magistrate); J C Galloway, representing Protestant Dissenters of West Bromwich (memorial on the subject of 'negro emancipation'); Isabella Haikes (asks if her uncle who emigrated 50 years ago is alive); Captain Harward and others (seeking the emancipation of all slaves [a printed copy of their memorial relative to 'the system of negro apprenticeship' is bound at the end of the volume]); Lieutenant F H H Johnstone (seeks appointment as stipendiary magistrate); John Innes (wishes to be recognised as corresponding agent for the Crown colonies, requests introduction to the Dutch ambassador, the slave trade between Africa, Porto Rico and Cuba); J L Kingston (seeks appointment as stipendiary magistrate); Lieutenant Thomas Kisbee (offers his services to superintend shipwreck apparatus in the colonies); C E Lefroy, former British commissary judge at Surname (forwards extract of letter concerning the working of the apprenticeship system); Lewis J Lambert (seeks an appointment); J W Lamaison (seeks employment); John N Ladd and John Guthrie (enquiry respecting the death of William Norman); Thomas Murrow (recommends purchase of Algiers from the French for the surplus population of the West Indies); Dr MacCabe (letter for forwarding to Dr Madden); James McQueen (mail communication, printed copy of a plan for the conveyance of mails by steam); John McDougall (seeks appointment); J Messervy (proposal for introducing Africans from Sierra Leone into the West Indies as labourers); Martha Macmillan (claim to certain property); Captain George W Manby (his work on shipwreck with reference to recent hurricane, suggestions for preservation of life from shipwreck, list of colonial stations recommended for placing sets of the life apparatus, requests appointment as superintendent of establishments for the preservation of life from shipwreck, printed plan for saving persons who fall through ice, requests interview); Betty Newton (seeks information about the property of her uncle William Shuttleworth supposed to have escheated to the Crown); J G Nanton (requests an appointment); A Oppenheim (seeks appointment as stipendiary magistrate); Captain J J Onslow (offers his services in connection with the use of Captain Manby's apparatus); William A Potter (requests an appointment); E Pellecat (seeks information about Francois Calles who died at Guadeloupe in 1814); G J Phillpotts (pay due to his late brother); Henry Platts (property left by Hannah Norman); Francis W Rawlinson (seeks appointment as stipendiary magistrate); George Richards (offer of Mr Haiwood to appear before Parliamentary committee to inquire into apprenticeship scheme); Ann Skinner (requests payment of sum due to her late husband); George Stevens (wishes to be appointed to visit and report on the state of the West Indies); Henry Smith (thanks for remission of the 4½% duty); Reverend J Thomson (recommends that a chaplain should be sent on board the Romney at Havana); J L Verity (seeks appointment for his son); Sir H Wheatley (Mr Brice's application for an appointment); Charles C Williamson (observations on the slave trade at Havana); William F G Waldron (requests an appointment); Proprietors and others interested in Barbados (petition concerning the 4½% duty); Colonial Office (copies of various circulars sent to governors).

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AMDigital Reference:CO 318/129.

CO 318.