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Despatches from Governor Sir Stephen Remnant Chapman as well as letters from various...
Catalogue reference: CO 37/93
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- CO 37/93
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1833
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Description (What the record is about)
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Despatches from Governor Sir Stephen Remnant Chapman 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:
Offices:
- Commander in Chief (Ralph Higginbotham's claims to military honours as American Consul for the Leeward Islands, barrack accommodation);
- Board of Trade (opinion on Act relative to the conviction of offenders transported from Great Britain);
- Foreign Office (recognition of the United States consul);
- Home Office (recommendation of Jonathan Jackson for a free pardon, transportation of convicts);
- Board of Ordnance (barrack returns);
- Treasury (escheated property of 'alien' J W Douglas).
Individuals:
- James Ewing (stipend for the Presbyterian minister);
- James Christie Esten (leave of absence);
- John Fesenmeyer (requests marriage certificate of Muss Shaw in order to recover some property);
- [Mrs] Mary Anne Harth (enquiry regarding the property of the late James Andrew Donnellan);
- Duncan Stewart (appointment of attorney general and advocate general)
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2749932/
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CO 37
Colonial Office and predecessors: Bermuda, Original Correspondence
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