Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments) and...

Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 101/76. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices (Government Departments):

• Agents (protest against legislation of the Imperial Parliament which it is claimed might infringe on the rights of the colonial legislature; proceedings of public meeting of proprietors, mortgagees and others on abolition of slavery);
• Commander in Chief (allowance/salary granted to Lieutenant Governor; request for allowance for table money);
• James Stephen, legal adviser (note from Agent for Grenada, Mr Marryat, regarding the granting of additional 'privileges' to 'free people of colour'; memorial from Chief Justice Bent regarding salary);
• Ordnance (proposal to manumit eleven 'slaves' [enslaved persons]);
• Treasury (salaries of Custom House officers; passage expenses of Major General Sir James Campbell

Individuals:

• Thomas Bigge (forwards papers from Revd William Darnell, Rector of Stanhope, referring to administration of justice in Grenada);
• James Boucher (medical certificate on state of health; enslaved persons of African descent on estate in Grenada);
• William Darnell Davis, Attorney General (reply to claims made by Mr Sanderson and the Supreme Court regarding convictions, refers to enslaved person);
• W Hoyes (Acts relating to improving the conditions of enslaved persons; encloses a written copy of extracts of the Consolidated Slave Act, act relating to payment for manumission of slaves, act relating to the treadmill, act preventing holding markets on the 'Sabbath Day'; religious instruction for enslaved persons);
• Jeffries ? (leave of absence);
• Nettering, French Consul (requests information about two French men called Pierre Olivier Drost and his brother Thomas Drost);
• Henry Otway (Supreme Court of Judicature, Brig Caroline);
• Rowley (opposes immediate abolition of slavery, and submits objections and proposed plan);
• Richardson (employment request);
• Chief Justice Sanderson (several documents dealing with the dispute with the Attorney General, William Darnell Davis, over his dispute with the Supreme Court; involving the court in special pleadings with those in contempt; case notes of judicial proceedings referring to case of William Cox, a free person of African decent, and of enslaved woman called 'Eliza' committed to jail for 'larceny'; calenders of prisoners confined in jail, which include name of prisoner, sentences, and other remarks; information relating to slavery; extracts of minutes of House of Assembly; printed pamphlet entitled 'Suggestions towards gradual Negro Emancipation, concluding a pamphlet entitled 'Emancipation in Disguise' (by John Sanderson, but anonymously published by Ridgeway & by Richardson - 1807)';
• S Stewart (Mr Bent's claim for salary as Chief Justice);
• Mr O'Hannan, Roman Catholic Pastor (Roman Catholic Church in Grenada);
• M de Poullain (Roman Catholic Church in Grenada, Mr O'Hannan);
• Daisey Simmonds [Secretary to the Roman Catholic Committee] & Nelson McBurnie (memorial regarding the Roman Catholic Church and rights of Roman Catholic in Grenada; Mr O'Hannan);
• Petition of Roman Catholic about right of Roman Catholics in Grenada, according to the petition it is signed by 1,210 people.

Topics

International

Litigation

Labour

Public disorder

Trade and commerce

Religions

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Race relations

Crime