Despatches from Governor Sir Hilgrove Turner and Acting Governor Robert Kennedy as...

Despatches from Governor Sir Hilgrove Turner and Acting Governor Robert Kennedy as well as letters from various 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters related to Bermuda. Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from officers and individuals is not and correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Admiralty (Governor Turner's passage);
• Home Office (behaviour of convicts, military guard for convicts, punishment for convicts who commit new offences);
• Law Officers (High Court of Admiralty judgment in the case of the Adelaide);
• Navy Office (passages for Archdeacon Spencer and family);
• Board of Ordnance (suggests the disallowance of an Act concerning the purchase of land);
• Treasury (delivery of flour, actions against Sir W Lumley, Mr Musson's salary claims, Custom House rent at the port of Hamilton, Mr Kennedy's service certificate as Colonial Secretary);
• Cavan & Company (need for the fees on ship clearances to be discontinued);
• J W Clarke (debt due by Solicitor General Musson);
• Mrs Mary Daniell alias Greene (claim to property left by her uncle John Greene, requests financial assistance if she cannot be given the property);
• Frederick Justice (Sir W Lumley's affairs, claim to an appointment);
• Harriet Leonard and Anna W Smith (call attention to petition which was sent to the Treasury);
• Sir William Lumley (requests compensation for damages awarded against him for false imprisonment, sends addresses attesting to his good governance, interview request, lack of instructions received concerning the consultation of legal persons in Bermuda, documents received from his solicitors);
• Marson & Son (letter to be sent to Mr English or Inglis);
• Aubrey Spencer, Archdeacon (request for a salary increase, passage for himself and his family, passage for a 'boy' he had taken charge of with the view of establishing an infant school for 'Negroes', account of Devonshire College, offer of appointment of archdeacon of Newfoundland, wish to be appointed to Council);
• D Stoddart (requests Mrs Campbell's address)

Topics

International

Pay and pensions

Race relations

Children

Debt

Food and drink

Navy

Americas

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns