Catalogue description Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and...

Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals relating to Barbados. Correspondence from the bishop of Barbados for 1829 is bound separately [see CO 28/151]. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• House of Commons (agent's statement concerning legislative provisions relating to the slave population);
• Admiralty (arrears of pension due to Greenwich Pensioner John Thomas now enslaved in Barbados);
• Agents (printed and manuscript copies of a 'statement made by the Agent of Barbadoes to Viscount Goderich, on the 18th March, of the several Provisions of the Legislature of that Colony in relation to the Slave Population', petition from William Jonathan Franklin [Francklin] praying for the restitution of his property [enslaved persons], his willingness to join a committee to enquire into hurricane damage and report of first meeting of that committee, two resolutions of the Council and Assembly concerning arrears of foreign duties);
• Commander in Chief (return of military personnel killed or wounded in the recent hurricane);
• Council Office (order in Council extending 'An Act to allow the importation of Lumber, and of Fish and Provisions, duty free, into the Islands of Barbadoes and Saint Vincent ...' [enacted as hurricane relief measure);
• Board of Trade (memorial of Mr Joseph Brooks Yates of Liverpool complaining of charges levied in Barbados on a cargo of cotton wool, order for permitting the importation of lumber, fish and provisions);
• Home Office (petition of Mr J Martindale concerning Elizabeth Christian Killikelly [enslaved person]);
• Law Officers (opinion on governor's enquiry as to whether recent legislation enacted to amend the criminal law of England extends to Barbados);
• James Stephen, legal adviser (opinion on bill to amend the law respecting the admission of the evidence of 'Free Black and Coloured People');
• Treasury (expenses of prosecution of W J Francklin, salaries of customs officers, charges brought against collector and comptroller of the customs with respect to the exportation of domestic slaves, property escheated to the Crown to be granted to 'the illegitimate Children of a free Black Woman named Mary Ann Roberts lately deceased intestate', bills drawn by the bishop for the hire of a vessel for the archdeacon's visits within the diocese and for other purposes, 'Statement of the Expenses incurred in Repairing Improving and Painting the School House of the Society for the Education of the Poor', ecclesiastical buildings in Anguilla, additional signal post at Barbados, admission of lumber etc. duty free to Barbados and St Vincent, hurricane relief, arrears of foreign duties)

Miscellaneous Offices:

• Lloyds (printed account of a 'Dreadful Hurricane at Barbados');
• Hurricane Committee (correspondence, petition from Barbados legislature, printed copies of despatches from the governors of Barbados, St Vincent and St Lucia together with extract from a letter from the bishop, summary of estimated value of property destroyed, statement of the number of persons killed, wounded or missing [in the categories 'White Persons, Free Coloured, Slaves', copy of 'An Act to allow the Importation of Lumber, and of Fish and Provisions, Duty-free, into the Islands of Barbadoes and Saint Vincent ...' [papers bound at end of volume, folios 253-304).

Individuals:

• George Samuel Collyer (Sir James Lyon's salary);
• J Colquhoun (qualifications of Mr Mayers, clerk of the Assembly and assistant protector of slaves);
• Mrs Clay, Manchester (enquiry about her daughter, son-in-law and grandchild, with the 36th Foot at Barbados, consequent to reports of the hurricane);
• Henry Denny (enquiry about his nephew Richard Allard of the Corps of Military Labourers at Barbados, consequent to reports of the hurricane);
• William Eliot (requests transmission of parcel to his brother the archdeacon);
• William Jonathan Francklin (petition praying for compensation for the loss of his slaves and the remission of penalties imposed upon him);
• Charles Green (offers his services as a carpenter and builder in connection with hurricane damage);
• W W Jordan (enquiry about his brother Joseph William Jordan, a member of Council, consequent to reports of hurricane);
• Reverend J G M Luckock (enquiry about his brother, the Reverend Benjamin Luckock, consequent to reports of hurricane);
• W Lancey (donating £2 9s 6d for hurricane relief);
• J P Musson (accepts appointment as first president of the Royal Court of St Lucia and provides information about the work of Mr Mayers and Mr Evelyn);
• Jonathan Martindale (Elizabeth Christian Killikelly [enslaved person]);
• Thomas Henry Rebitt (praying for remission of certain penalties incurred for a breach of the act for the abolition of the slave trade [covering correspondence only, petition sent to Privy Council]);
• Henry E Sharpe (application for the post of attorney general);
• W W Stanton, former lieutenant 25th Regiment (enquiry about Drs Willouhby [sic] and Hartle, consequent to reports of hurricane).