Correspondence, Original-Secretary of State: Letters from various government offices...

Correspondence, Original-Secretary of State: Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 23/99 and CO 23/100. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices (Government Departments):

• Admiralty (Colonel Cockburn's passage on the Romney);
• Commander in Chief (remittance of John Figo's sentence to transportation, Lieutenant Colonel Nicolls' conduct, reward for Lieutenant Tew for his services in the case of the wrecked Spanish slave ship Esperanza, Chief Justice Lees explanation of the case of the two West India Regiment privates sentenced to transportation);
• Foreign Office (lighthouse at Cay Sal, Spanish occupation of Cay Sal, questions if Cay Sal was a resort for pirates, handing over of slave ship crews to foreign powers, sale of the Portuguese ship Vigilante);
• Law Officers (cases of convicts Colin Taylor and Brutus Frobes);
• Treasury (liberated African establishment at Rosslyn, lighthouse construction at Abaco and Gun Cay, asks if President Hunter is administering the government, expenditure for African establishments, repayment of stamp duty, payment to Stipendiary Magistrate Munro, barrack accommodation, conveyance of troops costs, salaries, agreement with Spanish government for constructing a lighthouse at Cay Sal, £300 for Normal Schools, cancellation of indentures of Africans who arrived on the Hebe, reappointment of Mr Deane as Warehouse Keeper at Grand Cay);
• War Office (payment of Attorney General Lieutenant Henry Williams);
• Baptist Mission House (the officer commanding the troops' order for the soldiers not to enter the Baptist chapel);

• George Campbell Anderson (attorney generalship);
• Henry R Almgreen (petition for reimbursement of quit rent on two forfeited tracts of land);
• Mr Bigge (specimens of salt crystallization);
• B Balfour (recommends Mr Wood as attorney general, threatened proceedings concerning certain 'Negroes' indentured by him but since declared free);
• Rev F Bevan, Archdeacon (Rev Sweeney);
• J G H Bourne (vacant judgeship);
• Cox & Co (governor's salary certificate);
• Charles Cooper (attorney generalship);
• George Chilton (recommends Charles Cooper for attorney generalship);
• Colonel Cockburn (letter from President Hunter regarding the dissolution of the Assembly);
• Elizabeth Dawson (property of her deceased brother);
• H M Dyer (Mr Wood's suitability for the attorney generalship, aid for the Stevenstone settlement school);
• Samuel Gordon (grant of land);
• John W Hay (accepts judgeship);
• George Hay (death of his brother with respect to his appointment as a stipendiary magistrate);
• Rev William Hepworth (leave extension, preferment in England);
• Major John Longley (employment request);
• J C Lees (two soldiers sentenced to transportation, withdraws his letter concerning the two soldiers);
• E Ludlow (recommends Charles Cooper for attorney generalship);
• George La Coste (attorney generalship);
• Rev John McSwiney (difficulties of establishing a Normal School);
• H Munro (answer to his letter, payment of his arrears);
• MacLeod & Co (arrears due to former Stipendiary Magistrate Munro);
• W H Maule (recommends Charles Cooper for attorney generalship);
• Donald MacGregor (contracts or indentures of agreement to 'enticing' away the liberated Africans);
• John Miller (passage on the Romney, salary as attorney general);
• Commander Evan Napean (employment of liberated Africans);
• Lieutenant Colonel W B Nicolls (the Romney);
• N Shepherd (recommends Charles Cooper for attorney generalship);
• T N Talfourd (recommends Charles Cooper for attorney generalship);
• A J Thompson (employment request);
• J Walker (his father's case);
• George P Wood (attorney generalship)

Topics

Government finances

International

Litigation

Labour

Army

Taxation

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Piracy and privateering

Slavery

Weapons

Race relations

Navy

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns