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Despatches from George Beckwith, Governor of Barbados, together with correspondence...
Catalogue reference: CO 28/80
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This record is about the Despatches from George Beckwith, Governor of Barbados, together with correspondence... dating from 1811 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Barbados, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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CO 28/80
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Date (When the record was created)
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1811
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Despatches from George Beckwith, Governor of Barbados, together with correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and from individuals on matters relating to Barbados. Despatches are described at item level; other correspondence is not, and correspondents and subjects are as follows: Treasury (conduct of the Collector of Customs at St Lucia, liberated Africans at Barbados, Mr W Parker's claim for compensation for loss sustained following seizure of the brig Lady Kenmare of Cork, debt due from the former Postmaster General at Barbados, Governor Beckwith's claim for salary of his secretary and for stationery [3 items], return of letter from Mr Hallam which seems to have been referred by mistake, President Spooner's salary claim, Governor Beckwith's salary, copies of correspondence relating to liberated Africans); Privy Council (appointment of William Grasett as a member of the Council of Barbados, petition concerning a French brig condemned in the Vice Admiralty Court at Barbados, disposal of wives and children of 'Negroes' taken into the military service, supply of gunpowder etc., law officers' opinion on question relating to the Abolition of the Slave Trade legislation); Board of Trade (trade with St Eustatia [St Eustatius]); General Post Office (charge made by deputy postmaster at Barbados on colonial letters [2 items], opening of mail bags intended for other islands; George Hallam, Collector of Customs (duplicate letter to the Secretary of State with copies of correspondence concerning liberated Africans, return of liberated Africans [2 items]); G W Jordan, agent for Barbados (President Spooner's salary); Law Officers (opinion on question relating the Abolition of the Slave Trade legislation); John Barrow and other inhabitants of Barbados concerned the sugar industry (petition concerning the trade)
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This volume has been foliated twice. The catalogue entry uses the printed numbers.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Open Document, Open Description
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Colonial Office and predecessors: Barbados, Original Correspondence
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