Letters from individuals on matters related to Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects...

CO 295/124

1838

Letters from individuals on matters related to Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Mrs Harriot Buchanan (asks if her father John Marvell had made provisions for her);
• Joseph Steele Bradfield (memorial requesting re-employment);
• Joseph Basanta (requests order to visit prisons and houses of correction, leave extension request, his map, departure for England);
• William Clunes (requests appointment of town mayor or sergeant major of Police, requests re-employment as stipendiary magistrate, comments on his position as a person of African descent);
• Bligh Darracott (temporary appointment to a seat in the Council);
• Edward Stirling Dickson (requests re-employment);
• Sir F Doyle (requests employment for his brother);
• George Evans (sends a petition from Benjamin Hughes concerning the abolition of his office);
• Reverend Charles Ford (release of Major Ford, acknowledges the decision on his brother's case);
• George Ford (exonerates Mr Pantin from all blame concerning his defalcation);
• Benito G Fernandez (requests re-employment as a stipendiary magistrate);
• Alan Gordon (recommends Webster Gillman for an appointment);
• Mrs B E Gray (petition requesting her husband's re-employment);
• P A Gauteaume (requests appointment to the Legislative Council);
• Richard Elliot Horsford (requests an appointment);
• Thomas Houlbrooke (property left by his brother);
• Edmonstone Hodgkinson (reports arrival on leave, complaint against the chief justice);
• Charles Hobson (requests an appointment);
• John Hearne (asks name of patentee of vendue office);
• B Hughes (requests a pension for loss of office);
• E H Drummond Hay (reports plan to depart, requests half salary from date of appointment);
• Edward L Joseph (requests permission to dedicate his History of Trinidad to the King);
• John Junes (requests an interview concerning decision of the chief justice);
• Lewis Johnston (leave of absence extension request);
• John Longley (accepts treasurership, requests 1/4th salary advance);
• George La Coste (requests appointment as judicial referee);
• L C Lecesne (recommends Edward Schack for office of judicial referee, Mr Hobson's request for an appointment);
• Charles McFillen (forwards a letter);
• J Murray (abolition of apprenticeship, tranquillity among 'Negroes', requests appointment of special justice, requests to be continued as a stipendiary magistrate);
• Henry Murray (employment of his son);
• Joseph Marryat & Sons and others (requests assistance in sending out Catholic clergymen);
• Abraham Newland, Master Cooper (petition requesting assistance to recover $240 of the $350 that he paid to purchase his unexpired term of apprenticeship on Jordan Hill Estate);
• Charles Pemberton (six month leave extension request);
• Robert Birks Pitman (memorial concerning his office as a special magistrate, payment of his salary, requests re-employment, requests a copy of Parliamentary apprenticeship papers);
• George Peacock (salary due to his late brother who was a stipendiary magistrate);
• Lewis Pantin, Colonial Secretary (receipt of mail, entries made in the Treasury books, house rent and horse allowances for stipendiary magistrates, defends his conduct, compliance with order to give copies of certain letters to the lieutenant governor, his removal from office);
• Stephen Ruthery, Attorney General (extension of Mr Pemberton's leave, replies to enquiry regarding the Toleration Act, six month leave extension request, refutes Mr Murray's statement that he knew of Mr Ford's defalcation);
• Edward Schack (requests employment);
• W B Strugnell (his arrival, governor's testimony of his conduct as a stipendiary magistrate, passage allowance);
• Mrs Harriet Stephens (petition concerning her husband's land);
• John Scott (requests re-employment);
• George Scotland (reply to memorial of planters against his decisions on certain classifications of apprentices and slaves, vindicates himself, protests against four ordinances, his differences with Mr Warner, requests appointment as treasurer or stipendiary magistrate);
• George Scotland, Lewis Johnston and A Gomez (suggestions for filling the office of judicial referee and taxador);
• Reverend Richard P Smith, Roman Catholic Bishop (lack of and need for aid for religious education for Roman Catholic 'Negroes', requests a pension, report of his recent visit to the vicariate, funds for Roman Catholic clergymen to go to the West Indies);
• John Turnbull (separation of examiner of public accounts from the Colonial Secretary's Office, his salary, need for additional instructions before departure for colony);
• J M Wheeler (governor's conduct concerning the 'increase of popery');
• Mrs Eliza J Warner (inadequacy of her son's salary as notary public);
• Joseph Wilson Son & Co (bringing labourers from other islands to Trinidad, asks if certain Deportation Acts had been allowed);
• Reverend Thomas Zubiburn (requests a passport, payment of passage);
• Mandingos (memorial from twelve Africans of the Mandingo tribe requesting to be sent with their families to Sierra Leone - includes both their actual and slave names and their signatures in Arabic).

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