Catalogue description 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).