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Catalogue reference: CO 101/29/23
This record is about the Acknowledges receipt of letter giving King's approval of Mathew authorizing the Chief... dating from 1789 Aug 27 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Grenada, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Acknowledges receipt of letter giving King's approval of Mathew authorizing the Chief Engineer to pay 'Negro artificers' and hire 'Negro labourers' [enslaved labour], in addition to those 'granted' by the Colonies; refers to building the barracks, cisterns, and provision stores; encloses the last returns so that Secretary of State can judge 'of the number of Negroes hired, & the ability of the various works they are employ'd on'; various related enclosures including return mentioned; Return relating 'Overseer, Foremen, medium Number of Artificers and Labourers, Employed on the Ridge, and Monk's Hill for the Month June'[Antigua]; Return of the Dimensions and Contents of the several Cisterns in Grenada, St. Vincent; Barbados, Dominica, St. Christopher [St. Kitts], Antigua; 'Return of Overseers and the medium Number of Artificers and Men & Women Labourers Employed on the King's Works for the Month of August'; Return from St. Christopher, Dominica, St. Vincent.
Edward Mathew, Grenada, Folios 66 - 83.
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