Letters from 'offices' (government departments and other organisations) and individuals...

CO 137/143

1816

Letters from 'offices' (government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters relating to Jamaica. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• Post Office (detention of mail packet);
• Office of Ordinance (forts);
• Committee of West India Merchants (detention of mail packets);
• Foreign Office (rebel government of Carthagina; detention of Spanish SS Godo; expedition against Carthagina; assistance being offered to insurgents and fugitives of Spanish America; Americans confined at Cuba for role in insurrection at Venezuela; claim of M de Lepinay; information requested regarding Michel Porès; enquiry into property of J C Braig, who settled in Jamaica; certificate of death Thomas Rüpper; enquiry into Charles de Jumécourt);
• Board of Trade (Jamaica Acts; intelligence);
• Medical Board (trial of medicines);
• Admiralty (detention of Spanish SS Godo, expedition against Carthagina; entertainment of Charles Parke and Dr Jackson by Captain Hall; Act regulating Customs fees; Rear Admiral Douglas; report from commander in chief HM Salisbury, Port Royal Harbour; piracy activity by privateers);
• Council Office (charges of Assembly against chief justice; 'an Act for vesting a certain plantation or settlement called Clones in trustees for sale');
• Treasury (expenses of General Fuller on account of the 'Indian Chiefs'; Act regulating Customs fees; hire of Black Pioneers; pay of General O'Mara);
• Horse Guards (instructions sent to General Fuller; conveyance of regiment; hire of Black Pioneers);
• Office of Committee for Privy Council for Trade (Acts numbers 1572,1573,1570,1576,1577 for confirmation; patents);
• Court at Brighton (James Cunningham recommended for Council seat; confirming Act passed for 'Vesting in trustees certain slaves the property of James Henry an infant to be sold, etc'; confirmation of two Acts, 'For confirming the title of David Watt Esq for a Plantation called Coopers Hill, etc', & 'For forming part of Vere and certain interior parts of Clarendon and St Elizabeth into a distinct parish');
• Court of Carlton House ('an Act to vest a lot of land in Lucea and certain slaves of colour on Houghton Court Plantation in the parish of Hanover, etc'; 'an Act for vesting a moiety of certain real estates on this island and late the property of John Kelly Esquire deceased, etc'; Mr Rowe recommended for Privy seat);
• West India Committee (application of West Indian Houses for detaining Leeward Island packet);
• West India Merchant Planters of the City of Glasgow (resolutions);
• Transport Office (conveyance of regiment; arrival of troops);
• Ordinance Office (artillery; stores);
• War Office (ex-Black Garrison Companies, pay and land allotment);
• Colonial Office (pay of commander of forces).

Individuals:

• George Hibbert (detention of mail packet; appointment to Privy Council of James Cunningham; Slave Registry Bill, account of House of Assembly; G Pinnock leave of absence; requests meeting; establishment of Black River as free port);
• Comte Marc De Montagnage[?] (Seigneurie);
• W B Burt[?] (recommendation of Mr Burge for office of attorney general);
• J Drummond (recommendation of Mr Burge);
• Governor (delay of departure due to circumstances of the island);
• A C White[?] (petition of inhabitants of Westmoreland requesting that civil, criminal and mixed cases be tried in the Supreme Court of Judicature and no where else);
• G Tuckett (office of chief justice of Jamaica);
• W Bullock (recall of detachment);
• T Harrison (slaves purchased by James Henry);
• Earl of Balcares (suggests gender of slaves should be recorded);
• C S Stewart (emigrants from St Domingo);
• M de Lorcy (St Domingue property[?]);
• C N Palmer (West India Planters and Merchants, request packet delayed);
• Major General Conran (expenses incurred; office of lieutenant governor)
• J L Wollin (John Baker and Mr & Mrs S Grinder, missionaries of Church of the United Brethren).

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