Item
Duplicate of CO 37/42/9. Folios 23-24
Catalogue reference: CO 37/42/10
Date: 1790 Apr 15
Duplicate of CO 37/42/9. Folios 23-24
Item
Gives information concerning the claims of a 'coloured' woman, Elsie Simons (Simmons)...
Catalogue reference: CO 37/194/79
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- CO 37/194/79
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1866 Oct 22
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Description (What the record is about)
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Gives information concerning the claims of a 'coloured' woman, Elsie Simons (Simmons) and widower Sarah Arthur to a small plot of escheated land in St. Georges. Simons claimed to be a sister of the original owner Sarah Casey (also known as Sarah Carmichael and Sarah Forbes), and Mrs. Arthur claimed to be wife of Casey's creditor. Encloses an extract from the Privy Council minutes of 15 October concerning the claims, petitions from Simons and Arthur, a letter from the acting colonial secretary, a memo giving information about the land, and a testimony signed by Provost Marshal General John H Trott and jurors; John T Fisher, W Tudor Tucker, W T Trott, Henry E Higgs, Joseph Outerbridge, Anthony W Hayward, W A Outerbridge, John Skinner, Samuel C Raukin, John R Duerden, John Fox, and Joseph M Hayward.
Harry St. George Ord, Governor of Bermuda, No. 16, Folios 375-402
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- 10991/1866
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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