Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations...

CO 28/94

1824

Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals relating to Barbados. Correspondence from the bishop of Barbados for 1824 is bound separately [see CO 28/146]. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices

• Admiralty (transport for troops to be moved from Caribbean to West Africa);
• Agents (asking for copy of recent instructions regarding the 'Negro Population'; memorial of George Carrington, comments on demolition of the Wesleyan Chapel, table of statutes passed from 1800 to present [not in item]);
• Commander in Chief (movement of troops to West Africa, return of corps [correspondence only]);
• Council Office (notes appointment of J H Alleyne as a member of Council);
• Board of Trade (legislation passed in 1821, 1822 and 1823, liability of a merchant ship to pay port charges);
• Foreign Office (forwards letter [not in item]);
• Home Office (conditional pardon granted to Richard Streams, convicted of rape);
• Law Officers (comments on question 'whether there is any Statute passed before the Settlement of that Island [Barbados] in the year 1625 which authorises the Military acting under the Magistrate for the suppression of a Riot, to take the life of Rioters ...', judicial proceedings, competency of Court of Grand Sessions to try person accused of murder);
• James Stephen, legal adviser (reports on various legal questions referred to him [with note that his reports on Acts Nos 431-433 have been bound separately - see CO 323/42]);
• Board of Ordnance (appointment of clerks at Demerara, Trinidad, St Lucia and St Vincent, use of funds for purposes other than those agreed, barrack regulations);
• Treasury (management of barracks, claim of Mrs J Forster for the amount of debt due to her late husband, claims for payment of passage for Reverend C Layton, Reverend Herbert Beaver, and Reverend John Crawford Barker, petition of 'Free Colored Man' Francis Parris for the manumission of a boy named Thomas [covering letter only in item];
• Wesleyan Missionary Society (destruction of Wesleyan Chapel and Mission House [with various enclosures, folios 99-131].

Miscellaneous Offices

• Committee of the Incorporated Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West India Islands (request for financial assistance).

Individuals

• Kitty Atherley and others (petition [not in item, see letter from Zachary Macaulay described below]);
• Reverend Robert Agassiz (passage to Barbados);
• Lord Byron [7th Baron] (legislation regulating marriage in Barbados);
• Reverend Herbert Beaver (passage to Barbados with Mr Barker);
• J Colquhoun [?] (failure to obtain information about alleged disagreement between 'colored free people' of Barbados and the Legislature);
• John Cook (papers concerning charge against him of misapplying public provisions);
• John Cromarte (offering berths for Messrs Barker, Beaver and Tucker);
• Robert Ferrier (claim of Mr Crane);
• W M Harte, rector of St Lucy (transmitting parcel for the Society for the Conversion of the Negro Slaves);
• Thomas Hendy (refers to Canning's speach in the Commons on the subject of the amelioration of the condition and government of enslaved persons and puts forward proposals for his own estate);
• Robert Hopkinson (shipment of Bishop's silver plate);
• Reverend Henry Playsted Jeston (passage to Barbados);
• Thomas Layton (passage to Barbados for his son);
• Reverend John Laurence (passage to Barbados)
• Reverend John G Lewis (passage to Barbados)
• Samuel Hall Lord (petition of himself, Elizabeth S Lord and Sarah Lord concerning a slave named Will who was found guilty of 'rebellious and mutinous practices' and sentenced to transportation for life; claims that the man is innocent, and asks for him to be permitted to return to Barbados as a free subject);
• Grace McBride, Ireland (claims interest in estate of the late James Roarty);
• Zachary Macaulay (case of John Thomas Atherly [Atherley], who had purchased his own freedom and that of his wife and three children but had been unable to pay the tax on the latter four manumissions before his own sudden death, as a result of which the escheator general of Barbados had seized not only Atherley's house and land, but also his wife and children);
• W Moore, solicitor general (application for promotion to post of attorney general);
• Mr Makinson (extract from letter concerning the estate of Jeremiah Glanville);
• J Martindale ['dummy' sheet only: refers to petition concerning 'freedom of a female Slave' and gives cross-reference to 'Berbice 1824 letter M'];
• Reverend Thomas Owen (passage to Barbados);
• G R Rickards (John Brathwaite Skeete's salary);
• Reverend William Drake Sealy (passage to Barbados);
• Reverend Anthony Keighley Thomas, former chaplain to the garrison in Barbados (states that he is unable to support his 'few domestic slaves', nor can he afford to free them, and asks for assistance);
• Mr Wilberforce ['dummy' sheet only: 'requests information respecting a Slave Act'; no cross-reference].

Public Record(s)

Open Document, Open Description

Topics

International

Litigation

Public disorder

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Marriage and divorce

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Race relations

Ireland

Children

Debt

Navy

Pardons

Crime

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Africa