Letters from various individuals most of which relate to the Convict Department in...

Letters from various individuals most of which relate to the Convict Department in Bermuda and despatches sent from the governor in CO 37/169, CO 37/170, CO 37/171. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

• Robert W Aberdein, Mayor of Honiton, Devon (money for a convict);
• Edward Brice (Assistant Chaplain of Convicts application);
• Charles Bond, Assistant Overseer (expense report for convict transport from Bermuda to Portsmouth, England on the Chandler, passage to Bermuda for his wife);
• Letitia Buzzard (husband Convict Officer James Buzzard, petition forwarded by Rev Thomas Furlong);
• Robert Belvin, former Convict Department Assistant Overseer (pension);
• George Banks, Cookwarden (convict transport expenses, return passage to Bermuda);
• James Barritt, Warden (escort allowance, leave of absence request);
• George Bastin (Convict Service reappointment request);
• John Birch (alleged death of convict John Munn alias John Mound);
• Mrs H M Belvin (husband Robert Belvin);
• Mary Anne Cope (assistant warden's wife requests financial assistance);
• Cox & Co (salaries of Governor Colonel Freeman Murray and Assistant Governor Colonel A Hemphill);
• Edward Cole (application for Convict Department employment);
• Margaret Clout (husband George Clout, former assistant warden );
• John Chubb (passage for his daughter, whose brother was a first class clerk, from Bermuda to England);
• Dr W H Dickey (escort allowance request);
• General Darrell, Acting Receiver (confirmation of appointment);
• Medical Officer Charles F Edwards (escort allowance request, Bibles and prayer books for convicts, promotion request, return to Bermuda);
• Colonel Gordon (transmits petition of Isabella Mantach, matron in the Convict Department, for one-year's leave of absence);
• Gray and Son (convict warden's return passages);
• Gilbert Elliot Green, former Royal Navy Master (requests investigation into his conviction);
• Dr Godet (escort allowance);
• Commander Henry Hire (Chief of the Convict Establishment application);
• Lieutenant Charles Hall (Chief of the Convict Establishment application);
• James Howe (Convict Department appointment request);
• Thomas Halpenny (petition on behalf of his son convict John Halpenny);
• J B Howes, former overseer (Pension);
• Assistant Warden J Hastfield (escort allowance);
• Philip Holden, Roman Catholic Convict Chaplain (need for another Roman Catholic Chaplain);
• Thomas Harvey (application for appointment as an assistant warden);
• Nathaniel Jackson, Warden (requests extended leave of absence);
• Miles Gerald Keon (requests free passage for himself and his wife, salary advance, deficiency in salary);
• Robert Kennedy, Colonial Secretary (expresses thanks for pension);
• Timothy Kerrisk, Assistant Warden (escort allowance);
• Daniel Kirby, Assistant Warden (asks for his wife to be sent to Bermuda, state of the convict establishment, claim for lodging money);
• John Kirkham, former Overseer of the Medway Convict Hulk (pension);
• Rev J F Lightbourne, Rector of Pembroke and Devonshire (son's legal disqualification from acting as Church of England clergyman);
• Robert Lee (Convict Department clerk or steward application);
• Alfred M Lloyd (requests enquiry into dismissal from the Convict Department and an interview);
• Lieutenant James Lilburn (salary advance, appointment as Deputy Comptroller);
• James Leach (Gibraltar Convict Department employment application);
• Herrman Loffler (brother convict William Loffler);
• M Marks (requests permission to send Passover biscuits to his son convict John Marks);
• Mary Menton (forwards enquiry to the governor concerning her son John James Menton);
• Freeman Murray, Governor of Bermuda (recommends Miles Gerald Keon for the Privy Council, Mr Clarke's hydraulic apparatus, construction of a second lighthouse, requests appointment in a 'more salubrious climate', requests an extended leave of absence);
• Samuel Martin, Assistant Warden (Gibraltar Convict Department employment application, requests additional two weeks leave of absence, return passage to Bermuda);
• Isabella Mantach, Matron in the Convict Department (requests additional three months leave of absence, return passage to Bermuda);
• Commander Charles Frankland Newland (Chief of the Convict Establishment application, shipment of furniture, payment of expense for official prison visits);
• John Newbury, Assistant Warden ( arrival in Bermuda with convicts, lodging money, resignation of post);
• Dennis O'Brien, Assistant Warden (passage to Bermuda);
• Captain Montague Pasco, former Convict Department Deputy Superintendent (salary, information concerning his removal, requests another appointment);
• Mrs Power (memorial by clergy and presidents of Bonmahon on behalf of her son convict Thomas Power);
• William Parr Phillips, Rector (recommends Louisa Ann Crane, niece of Warden Barritt, for passage to Bermuda);
• Thomas Paisley, Principal Warden (salary, passage to Bermuda for himself and his wife);
• Corporal Patrick Reanny (Gibraltar Convict Department Assistant Warden application);
• W H Reading, Warden (salary advance);
• Joseph Smith, Warden (salary advance);
• H Todd, Shipping Agent (asks that convicts arriving in a particular vessel be disembarked at one port);
• Henry Threadingham, Convict Department Foreman of Shipwrights (extended leave of absence);
• W Witts, Assistant Warden (escort allowance, extended leave of absence, passage to Bermuda for himself and his wife, salary);
• Henry Watlington, Master of the Chandler (hurricane on voyage from Bermuda to Queenstown in Ireland).

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