Letters from Government departments, other organisations and individuals on matters...

Letters from Government departments, other organisations and individuals on matters relating to Jamaica. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• House of Commons (order requiring return of monies voted by Assembly; order requesting information into treatment of female slave by Reverend Bridges; papers regarding maltreatment of slave Henry Williams; return of Mr Sulivan's office of provost marshal);
• Admiralty (summons to Naval officers; passage estimates; pirates Neil, Macdonald, Martin, Clarke & José seized on board the Midas slave ship; packet regulations);
• Agent (mail detained; interview; individual property claims, Mr James's patent; regrets statement regarding Sir G Murrey; petitions of Milborough, Graves, Earnshaw and R Watt; papers in case of Watts; requests interview; description of Acts for levying of duties);
• Commander in Chief (accommodation of sick in barracks; relief, Sir J Keane; mortality of troops; contingency; appointment of Sir W Cotton & his succession of Keane);
• Council Office (appointment of Mr J Gayleard to Council; disallowance of Act for the government of slaves);
• Foreign Office (packet detention; Mr Lloyd should return Isthmus of Panama maps to Colombian Government);
• Law Officers (prosecution of Mr Bridges in the Ecclesiastical Court);
• James Stephen, Legal Adviser (complaint by Earnshaw regarding slave condemned to Crown; case of the Midas);
• Navy Office (John Hull may board the Elizabeth);
• Board of Ordnance (troops' supplies; repairing and maintaining batteries);
• Treasury (no remittances by agent for Naval officer Robertson; surrender of office by Naval officer King; conduct of Mr T Grant, Customs collector; whether 'captured Africans' should be employed as Black Pioneers; salaries of stipendiary clergy; property of late George McKay; recovery of fees Mr Atkinson; Customs officers' expenses; conduct of Mr Fawcett, Customs; conduct of House of Assembly respecting troops; Customs duties and salaries, troops' supplies; Bishop's passage; surplus from clergy pay; leave of absence of Customs officers; illegal removal of two slaves from St Lucea on 10 May for St Johns, New Brunswick; Customs officer's expenses at St Ann's Bay in slave case);
• War Office (requests information regarding possible grant renewal for troops in Jamaica);
• Wesleyan Mission (clauses of late Slave Act regarding religious liberty of missionaries, reports cases of cruelty towards slaves for attending Wesleyan meetings);
• Baptist Missionary Society (religious instruction of 'black population'; Slave Act provision; requests interview);
• Ecclesiastical Board (vacancies; resident and officiating clergy of Jamaica and Barbados [Jamaica return enclosed]);
• Board of Customs (salary refund Mr Barnett; Church Missionary Society: exemption from Militia duty).

Individuals:

• Arbuthnot[?] (case of Mr Germain);
• Anonymous (conduct of Mr Miller);
• Reverend W Armstrong (enquiry regarding Mr Blake);
• Anna Adcock (enquiry regarding her son);
• J Browster (enquiry regarding the late T Browster);
• Charsley & Barker (Civil and Criminal Law);
• Reverend Crowe (leave of absence);
• D Collins (claim to Southampton Estate);
• C Cooke (permission to land at Haiti);
• T Eeles (enquiry regarding John Dawson);
• M Grady (his brother's will);
• Reverend Gilder (character references; passage money);
• R Gaynard (letter of Lord Belmore);
• C Grenville (Act regulating Patent Office);
• M Grady (recovery of property);
• T Garde (property);
• J Galbraith (packet for Lord Belmore);
• Elizabeth Hull (passage);
• J Hodgekinson (will of late J Wittaker);
• E Hardy (property of T Hardy);
• Lieutenant Colonel Hillier (application for employment);
• Reverend Hill (appointment; testimonials; passage);
• Mr Jones (letter for Lord Belmore);
• Ann Kelly (property);
• D Lushington (protection to Lescene, Escoffery, Gonville; compensation for Gonville);
• D Lang (testimonials; thanks);
• Thomas London (property);
• H Lipscombe (qualification of A Campbell);
• W Mottershead (will);
• Reverend Postlethwaite (salary);
• E Pope (bills of exchange);
• J Powels (packet detention);
• J Reylands (Mollinghead property);
• P Reynolds (property);
• W Selwyn (Gonville's claims);
• G Saintsbury (Slave Law);
• W Smith (Slave Law);
• Lord Stafford (appointment of Mr Gilder);
• Captain Sutherland (property B Seguiner: document to be certified);
• J Short (expenses);
• Sir W Scarlett (admission to Council);
• K Spiger (appointment);
• G Smith (signature authentication);
• W Talbot (his son);
• C Taylor (passage Mr Gilder; cruelty towards slaves by Mr Blake and others);
• G Tuckett (complaint Earnshaw regarding slave condemned in Vice Admiralty);
• Anne Thorburn (property);
• Wildman (cruelty case concerning Mr Blake and neighbouring planter);
• Wainwright (Slave Law);
• Zincke (Chinese labour).

Topics

Government finances

International

Labour

Army

Taxation

Caribbean

Maps and plans

Pay and pensions

Piracy and privateering

Slavery

Navy

Americas

Armed Forces (General Administration)