Despatches, Offices and Individuals. Despatches are described at item level, correspondence...

Despatches, Offices and Individuals. Despatches are described at item level, correspondence from offices and individuals is not. The latter includes letters from various government departments and individuals, most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO101/82. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (Colonel Doyle's passage);
• Board of Trade (reference to act repealing certain duties on shipping);
• Council (leaving acts to operation);
• Foreign Office (liberated Africans and capture of slave trading ships);
• Law Offices (report on case of person called Peter, an apprenticed labourer convicted of arson);
• Treasury (expense relating to Colonial Corps of Rangers; prosecution of two enslaved persons in the Vice Admiralty Court; Berkeley's salary as acting governor; Doyle's passage expenses);

Individuals:

• W. Armstrong (leave of absence);
• Thomas Berkeley (counterclaim on his estate; wants to remove apprentices from Carriacou to Grenada; convicted person George Nicholson embarks for England; salary as administrator of the government);
• Sir C. Burdett (government of Grenada);
• Cox & Co. (salary of Colonel Mair);
• J. E. Cairnes (Lieutenant Governor of Grenada);
• Douglas (arrival on leave; extension of leave of absence);
• Col. Fuller (applies to be Lieutenant Governor);
• R. C. Ferguson (introduces McDouglas);
• John Hay (applies to be appointed a judge under the new West India Judicature Act; his proceedings and workings of the measure; discussion of situation in Grenada post-1834);
• Lindsay (expenses of procuring the wills he wishes to have; brother's will);
• J. Marryat (refers to act fixing salaries in lieu of fees to public officers);
• Revd. O'Hannan (report on religious instruction of apprentices; Roman Catholic rights; claims for services);
• J. Peile (Colonel Mair);
• G. W. Poole (request to look at certain papers on damage done to Westerhale Estate during the Fedon Revolution of 1795);
• C. Richardson (petition on behalf of person named John, an apprenticed labourer);
• O. Rowley (leave of absence; appointment of his son);
• J. Sanderson (promotion; requests some mark of favour).

Topics

International

Litigation

Labour

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Navy

Crime

Armed Forces (General Administration)