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Despatches from Acting Governors Henry G Hunt (items 1-19) and Robert Kennedy (items...
Catalogue reference: CO 37/96
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This record is about the Despatches from Acting Governors Henry G Hunt (items 1-19) and Robert Kennedy (items... dating from 1835 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Bermuda, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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CO 37/96
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Date (When the record was created)
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1835
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Description (What the record is about)
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Despatches from Acting Governors Henry G Hunt (items 1-19) and Robert Kennedy (items 20-32) as well as letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals. Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from offices and individuals is not. Correspondents and subjects covered in offices and individuals are as follows:
Offices:
- Admiralty (Sir S R Chapman's passage from Bermuda to New York);
- Commander in Chief (augmentation of the troops in 1830 and the 1832 withdrawal of one of the regiments stationed in Jamaica);
- Board of Trade (the transit trade of provision to the West Indies);
- Foreign Office (letter from the American Charge D'affaires claiming compensation for slaves liberated by Bermudian authorities from the Enterprize);
- Home Office (case of convict Hugh Clifford);
- Law Officers (Act for the encouragement of ship building);
- Ordnance (account of military work being carried out in Bermuda);
- Treasury (mail to be forwarded, issue of forage to the medical officer of the Ordnance, Bishop's passage, custom's officers need to supply returns, claim of John and Samuel Musson);
Individuals:
- Thomas Butterfield (correspondence with Robert Kennedy concerning his report);
- Lord Castlereagh (petition requesting a pardon for convict Hugh Clifford);
- R Chapman (his brother's health);
- Cox & Co (Governor's salary certificate);
- James Cavan (Acting Governor Hunt's salary certificate);
- J H Darrell (Robert Kennedy's report);
- Colonel Harvey (government of Bermuda);
- Mrs W McAlphin (petition on behalf of her convict son James McAlphin);
- Aubrey G Spencer, Archbishop (retirement from Council);
- John Walker (improvement of the administration of the government);
- Colonel Grey (memo on the military staff)
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2749935/
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CO 37
Colonial Office and predecessors: Bermuda, Original Correspondence
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