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

CO 28/106

1830

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 of John Thomas Greenwich pensioner now enslaved at Barbados [Board of Admiralty agrees that £56 owing should be used to purchase his freedom provided his master concurs]);
• Agents (requests copy of the recommendation that William Thomas, George Smith and Italy should be pardoned, forwards copy of an address from the legislature addressed to William IV on his accession to the throne, forwarding petition of Mr Franklin, Customs House regulations);
• Law Officers (case of slaves Will Thomas, George Smith and Italy [opinion of law officers is that 'the effect of the Pardon is not to restore them to their former Master, who has received a compensation for them according to the provisions of the Law made for such cases, not to make them free, but to vest the Property in His Majesty to be disposed of as he shall be advised']);
• James Stephen, legal adviser (case of William Jonathan Franklin [written elsewhere as Francklin or Franklyn] indicted for a felony in the removal of various slaves from Barbados, proceedings of customs officers in carrying into effect the law for the abolition of the slave trade, memorial of Mr Evelyn JP concerning an action brought against him by W J Franklyn for false imprisonment);
• Navy Office (shipment of four boxes of books for the use of the clergy);
• Treasury (memorial of slaves escheated to the Crown following the death of their owner Agnes Charlotte Denny 'a free coloured Woman' asking for their freedom instead of being granted to the family of their late owner [enslaved persons named as Jane Denny, Sarah Denny, John William Denny, Samuel Edward Denny, James Denny and Elmina Denny], archdeacon's salary, erection of chapel at Bridgetown, payments from the military chest for legal expenses, report of the Commissioners of the Customs into allegations that customs officers have not co-operated in enforcing the law for the abolition of the slave trade [with reference to the case of William J Francklin; with copies of related correspondence and papers], passage of Sir James Lyon, case of the sloop Beautiful Maid seized by Mr Mayers protector of slaves, case of slaves escheated to the Crown [Denny case], expenses of prosecution of W J Francklin [named elsewhere as Franklin or Franklyn];
• Ecclesiastical Board (returns showing names, extent and population of parishes within the diocese of Barbados together with names of clergy, values of livings, number of churches, and numbers of baptisms, marriages, burials and communicants [diocese covers Barbados, Grenada, St Vincent, Trinidad, St Lucia, Montserrat, St Christopher, Tobago, Nevis, Dominica, the Grenadines and Demerara]).

Individuals:

• G S Collyer (Sir James Lyons' salary);
• C H Coulthurst, colonial judge advocate (extension of leave, duties of colonial judge advocate, request for passage to Fernando Po from where he proposes to '[make] first for the Kingdom of Benin, and, tracing that lofty chain of mountains lately admeasured, whose height exceeds any in Europe, to follow down the stream of the Congo into South Africa');
• Jane Denny (memorial on behalf of herself, her five children and granddaughter [see above under Treasury]);
• Edward Eliot, archdeacon (extension of leave, shipment of books, improvement of condition of slaves on Codrington estates, 'outlines of a plan for the formation of a saving bank for the poor white, free coloured and slave population');
• William Jonathan Francklin [also named above as Franklin or Franklyn] (petition against the seizure of slaves he attempted to remove from Barbados to Trinidad);
• Margaret Hogan and Murthy Hogan (claim to estate of Patrick Hogan);
• Dr Maycock (extension of leave);
• J P Musson (memorial for increase of salary as attorney general, appointment as chief justice or to one of the judicial situations to be created on circuit in the West Indies, judicial appointment and loss of practice, administration of civil and criminal justice in the West Indies);
• Perrott and Company (money owed to them by J P Musson);
• Joseph Roach and W J Marshalls (memorial on behalf of themselves and other individuals imprisoned for debt, with copy of 'An Act for the relief of Insolvent Debtors');
• John Smith (enquiry re property of the late Reverend Thomas Brooks);
• John Verey, hosier and glover (money owed to him by J P Musson);
• D & A Wilkinson (shipment of Archdeacon Eliot's books).

Public Record(s)

Open Document, Open Description

Topics

International

Litigation

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Population

Race relations

Children

Debt

Navy

Pardons

Wills and probate

Crime

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Africa