Despatches from Governor Major General Sir Stephen Chapman as well as letters from...

Despatches from Governor Major General Sir Stephen 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 offices and individuals is not and correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (orders for the mail boat to land at St Georges rather than Ireland Island, chief justice's appointment as judge of the Vice Admiralty Court, agrees to lend a diving bell, confirmation of the Act granting land for the Naval Commissioner's use);
• Foreign Office (appointment of Mr Tucker as United States Consul);
• Home Office (convict John Powers);
• Law Officers (confirmation of the Act encouraging ship building);
• Board of Ordnance (increased estimate for Ireland Island barracks, declines purchase of Devonshire Academy building);
• Treasury (Archdeacon's salary, salary of the secretary of the Auxiliary Commission of Slave Compensation, charge of Custom's Department in St Georges).

Individuals:

• Call Martin & Company (Colonial Secretary Robert Kennedy's salary);
• Cox & Company (the governor's salary certificate);
• James Christie Esten, Chief Justice (his removal from the Council, the religious instruction of 'Negroes');
• B Charles Gray, Agent (Chief Justice Butterfield's application for a commission as judge of the Admiralty);
• John N Harvey (son's inability to do his duty in Customs and his need for employment);
• Thomas Pyne, Curate of Holdenhurst (convict James Clarke);
• John Sankey (convict John Powers);
• Aubrey G Spencer, Archdeacon of Bermuda (arrival in England on leave, salary, dividing the Diocese of Barbados into three Archdeaconries, transfer of Bermuda to another See, need of the Bishop's approval for the nomination of his deputy);
• Henry Tucker (need for a lighthouse to be built in Somerset)

Topics

International

Labour

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Race relations

Navy

Americas

Armed Forces (General Administration)