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Letters from various offices (government departments) and individuals. Correspondents...
Catalogue reference: CO 137/115
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This record is about the Letters from various offices (government departments) and individuals. Correspondents... dating from 1805 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Jamaica, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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CO 137/115
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Date (When the record was created)
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1805
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Description (What the record is about)
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Letters from various offices (government departments) and individuals. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:
Lieutenant General Eyre Coote (numerous correspondence: regiments to be sent to Jamaica to serve under Coote's command, combined French and Spanish forces heading for West Indies with intention of gaining British islands, defence of Barbados and Jamaica; arrival of Coote at Cork, awaiting for final instructions for embarkation; arrival of troops and transports at Cork, embarkation delayed temporarily; allowance of troops; arrival of combined French and Spanish forces at Martinique, Nelson bound for Barbados, intelligence regarding French near Tortolla; death of Royal Artillery officers; inadequate accommodation on board ship for certain officers; arrival of convoy at Barbados).
Miscellaneous (offices and individuals):
- Agent to St Domingo (his salary);
- Treasury (army accounts; governor's bills including bill for 72 new 'negroes' from Gold Coast; expenditure of island; prize goods and vessels carried into Jamaican ports; instructions for commissary general of stores);
- Hammond (letter from Mr Merry, HM minister in America);
- Agent for Jamaica (proclamation prohibiting commercial intercourse between Jamaica and America; proclamation permitting certain importations from America);
- House Guards (letter from Nugent regarding barracks; embarkation of troops);
- Admiralty (proceedings regarding prize goods and vessels carried into Jamaican ports);
- Cooke (death of agent to St Domingo);
- Consul at Philadelphia (trade between America and Jamaica);
- Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations (importation of goods from America);
- General Merk (statement regarding incident at Jamaica involving French officers planning to wrest Jamaica from the English);
- Turnbull (establishment of trade with Vera Cruz);
- Committee of Correspondence (accounts of produce exported and imported between Jamaica and America in British and American Bottoms).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C978647/
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CO 137
Colonial Office and predecessors: Jamaica, Original Correspondence
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