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 are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (conveyance of regiment from Gibraltar to Bermuda, conveyance of despatch to Sir S Chapman, lighthouses, grant of Vice Admiralty Commissions, warrant granting Colonel Reid powers as governor);
• Commander-in-Chief (governor's refusal to have detachment sent to Nova Scotia, objectionability of retaining military convicts on hulks);
• Home Office (military convict should be sent to England);
• Law Officers (military convict should be sent to England, Jean Godard's case);
• Board of Ordnance (convict labour, Ordnance Lands Act);
• Treasury (Archdeacon Spencer's leave, Mr Smith's application, Revenue and Customs Establishment Acts, lighthouses, relief of emigrants in wrecked ship);
• Prison Discipline Society (defects in Jail Regulation Act).

Individuals:

• Thomas Butterfield, Judge (requests same salary as his predecessor);
• R H Bare (Sir Andrew Leith Hay's debt to him);
• J Bunbury, Colonel (applies for appointment as governor);
• F Chapman (enquiry about his brother Sir Stephen Chapman's alleged recall from Bermuda);
• Cox & Company (the governor's salary certificate);
• Sir Andrew Leith Hay (passage in a ship of war, applies for an aide de camp, passage allowance);
• James Hooke (application for the post of Lieutenant Governor);
• John N Harvey (Customs appointment for his son);
• Lieutenant Colonel Reid (non-compliance of regulations respecting government furniture);
• Aubrey G Spencer, Archdeacon of Bermuda (requests restoration to the Council, letters for the mail, education of emancipated slaves, requests extension of leave, reports plan to return to Bermuda, requests to be transferred);
• James Stewart (claims of Solicitor General Duncan Stewart);
• E J Sydney (Sir A L Hay's debts);
• John Wray (enquires about Sir A L Hay's sailing date, states that Sir S Chapman is not dead);
• Reverend R W Whitford (Archdeacon Spencer)

Topics

International

Army

Migration

Europe and Russia

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Debt

Navy

Americas

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns

Prisons