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

CO 28/104

1829

Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals relating to Barbados. Correspondence from the bishop of Barbados for 1829 is bound separately [see CO 28/149]. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices: Admiralty (arrears of pension due to Greenwich out-pensioner John Thomas 'residing in a state of Slavery at Barbados', copy of Piracy Commission); Agents (proposed light house, request for response to previous letters, appointment of J P Mayers as agent and his request for a meeting); Commander in Chief (forwards and rejects suggestion that 'nine Lunatic Black Soldiers' should be sent to England, conveyance of 65th Regiment from Cork to Barbados to relieve the 2nd Battalion of the 60th); Board of Trade (return of port and other charges on British and foreign vessels at Bridgetown); Foreign Office (refers to correspondence of 1820/21 concerning a claim made on the government of the Netherlands for the subsistence of shipwrecked Dutch seamen [claim not yet settled]; Law Officers (opinion that the trial of three slaves, Will Thomas, George Smith and Haly, for discharging a loaded gun at Mr Hinds, was irregular); James Stephen, legal adviser (opinion on various issues arising from the case of the Reverend William Marshall Harte [see CO 28/147], opinion on the case of the former Greenwich pensioner now slave John Thomas); Treasury (bishop's residence, expense of bishop's visits within his diocese, claim of Mrs Jane Brown to money owed from the estate of Frances Elizabeth Waterman, newspapers in which the deputy commissary general's advertisements appear, opinion on petition of Elizabeth H Austin for return of a 'Negro Slave her property' forfeited to the Crown in consequence of an alleged illegal importation into Barbados, alleged debt owed to Mr George Robertson of Aberdeen for supplies made to sick and wounded of the Royal Navy at Barbados in 1804, passage of Sir James Lyon to Barbados and his pay and allowances as commander of the troops in the Windward and Leeward Islands, forwards copy of opinion of the attorney and solicitor general on a memorial from George Harper 'a free black man' on behalf of the eight children of the late Elizabeth Sybella Stede whose property has escheated to the Crown, salary of Archdeacon G Elliot, forwards copy of opinion of the attorney and solicitor general on the claims of John Williams Campion and Catherine Ann Willoughby on the estate of Esther Killington, forwards copy of a letter from the secretary to the Board of Customs relating to difficulties experienced in obtaining the co-operation of customs officers at Barbados in enforcing the law for the abolition of the slave trade, forwards copy of opinion of the attorney and solicitor general on the claim of Mary Ann Doldson on the estate of Edward Alleyne, agreement with recommendation that the escheated slaves Mary Straker and her son Richard Straker should be manumitted); Ecclesiastical Board (passages for clergy appointed by bishop of Barbados, forwards pamphlet entitled 'A Statement relative to Codrington College; extracted from the reports of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts'. Miscellaneous Offices: Dead Letter Department, General Post Office (encloses letter addressed to the lord mayor by J Martindale [not in item]). Individuals: Eliza Howard Austin 'free coloured woman' (seizure of her slave Susanna); Robert Aberdeen (removals of slaves); Howard Bovell (application to remove 'a number of negro families' from Barbados to Trinidad); Abel Clinkett [Klinkett], editor and proprietor of The Babadian newspaper (asking for financial assistance); Cavan Brothers & Company (forwards letter from Messrs Tucker and Haly concerning detention in prison of a slave who had escaped from Martinique on board the brig Bermuda); George Samuel Collyer (Sir James Lyon's salary); Major General Sir C Campbell (forwards letter from Lieutenant General Sir James Lyon and states that Thomas Johnson, a 'Man of Color' accused of committing murder near Ayr in Scotland has been landed at Portsmouth and handed over the authorities there); Messrs Clarke (letter for attorney general J P Musson); Jane Cocking (claim to property of her late brother Robert Andrews); Mrs Doughty (requests return of letter from Governor Warde concerning passage money for her late husband Staff Surgeon Edward Doughty); John C Eversley (asking for fixed salary as registrar of the diocese); William Farrer (expressing an interest in the estate of a Mr Sarjeantson who died about fifty years earlier); Stephen Isaacson (removal of domestic slaves from Barbados to Demerara); Frederick Justice (encloses letters for forwarding to Barbados and Bermuda); Mr Musson (commenting on 'mis-statements' in the memorial of Thomasin Sherrif); Dr Maycock (encloses letter for forwarding to the bishop); James Power (enquiry relating to the will of his uncle James Power); J Primrose, solicitor (regarding memorial from his client John Fry, a waiter at Blenheim Coffee House, New Bond Street, seeking payment of money owed him by Colonel Diggens, barrack master at Barbados); George Robertson (seeking payment for goods provided to the sick and wounded of the Royal Navy at Barbados); J E Squires (states that he intends to grant freedom to two enslaved persons, Sarah Squires and her daughter, and enquires about the procedure); W Wainwright (memorial of Howard Bovell); J Wray (petition of E H Austin [see above]).

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