Despatches from President J B Skeete and President Samuel Hinds, both administering...

Despatches from President J B Skeete and President Samuel Hinds, both administering the government in the absence of a governor, and from Lieutenant General Sir Henry Warde, governor of Barbados, together with letters 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:

Offices:

• Agent (extracts from minutes of a meeting of the Assembly concerning the dismissal of Mr Lane from the magistracy);
• Admiralty (flaw in a piracy commission and consequent delay in commencing the trial of seven men; expenses of certain prosecutions at the Vice Admiralty sessions in Barbados);
• Commander in chief (appointment of Sir Henry Warde to be commander of the forces in the Windward and Leeward Islands, passage for Governor Warde and his 'family, staff, servants, furniture, equipage, horses and baggage' [4 items];
• Privy Council Office (approval of draft commission and instructions for Governor Warde, seeks opinion on two Acts, recommends disallowance of an Act 'concerning the Vestry of the Hebrew Nation resident within this Island' and asks for a further two Acts to be reserved for further consideration; seven other Acts to be left to their operation);
• Law Officers (memorial from William Eversley, John Beckles and Samuel Hinds claiming payment of certain fees);
• Foreign Office (subsistence of certain foreign seamen at Barbados [with account of expenses incurred, a list of six named Genoese seamen, and copy of a letter from Baron Fagel (in French)];
• Treasury (payment of salary of President Skeete's private secretary, levying of duty on articles imported into Barbados for the use of the troops [2 items];
• Navy Office (passage for John Durant 'a black teacher');
• Colonial Registry Office (reports receipt of a duplicate registry of slaves for the year 1820);
• Greenwich Hospital (claims against the estate of the prize agent Mr Maxwell).

Individuals:

• William Eversley (his memorial concerning payment of certain fees [with accounts]);
• D Levi (comments on the reported increase in the enslaved population of Barbados);
• John Malloney, 'free man of Colour' (asserts his ownership of Friendly Hall which is currently in the possession of Benjamin Walrond [with related correspondence], further information concerning the claim;
• Philip Murphy (claim for the property of James Donovan, further correspondence on the subject);
• Members of the Council (certificate in support of President Skeete's salary payment).

Topics

International

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Navy

Armed Forces (General Administration)