Post Office Packet Agents

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=185 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="040b9c00dduajq.jpg"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="70" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 76 WIDTH="66"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="76" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="66" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Post Office Packet Agents</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>1688-1705 Falmouth</U></B></div> <div> Gwin</div> <div> Jones</div> <div> <B> </B></div> <div> <B><U>1705-1724 Flushing</U></B></div> <div> Rogers</div> <div> Durden</div> <div> Penhallow</div> <div> Banfield</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>1724-1823 Falmouth</U></B></div> <div> Banfield</div> <div> G. Bell</div> <div> S. Bell</div> <div> Pender</div> <div> Saverland</div> <div> Musgrave</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>1823-1850 Falmouth</U></B></div> <div> (Admiralty)</div> <div> Gay</div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Falmouth Packet Archives 1688-1850</B></FONT>    |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Falmouth Packet Archives 16881850"><U>home</U></A></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> Post Office Packet Agents</div> <div> The General Post Office and Falmouth Packet  Agents</div> <bR> <bR> <div> 29/1/1689     <A NAME="_daniel_gwin_____dismissed_in_1705____"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id137_daniel_gwin_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Daniel GWIN, Packet Agent (16891698)"><U>Daniel Gwin</U></A>     </FONT>Dismissed in 1705,      <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" >Gwin owed the Post Office £7,111. 10s. 4d. </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" > [Treasury Letter Book] </FONT></div> <div> 17/5/1699     Francis Jones</div> <div> 9/8/1705     Zachary Rogers*  (ex Commander)     <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >When he died In 1711, Rogers owed the Post Office £3,447.</FONT></div> <div> 10/3/1713 [?]     Joseph Durden</div> <div> 29/9/1715     Joseph Penhallow</div> <div> 1/4/1723     Stephen Banfield</div> <div> 11/6/1747     <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Freemasonry"><U>George Bell</U></A></FONT></div> <div> 5/1/1776     Stephen Bell</div> <div> 21/8/1785     Benjamin Pender "of a well known local family" </div> <div> 9/5/1810     <B>Christopher Saverland</B> "a Post Office Official" [Saverland Letters (SL)]</div> <div> 30/5/1821     Thomas Moore Musgrave " of Bath"</div> <div> 6/12/1824     William Gay [read <I>Old Falmouth</I>, by Susan Gay]</div> <bR> <div> A great deal of study is required, but, I am sure, there is a wealth of information available in the form of operational and accounting correspondence between the agents and PMG. </div> <div> (Such as the [Christopher] <I>Saverland Letters</I>, at the Post Office Archives, London).</div> <bR> <div> <B>Calendar of Treasury Papers</B>, Vol. XCVII. <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >(p.419)</FONT>     "About Feb. 25, <B>1706</B>"</div> <div>           </div> <div> Report of the Postmaster General to the Lord High Treasurer on the petition of Dame Frances Killigrew, widow of Sir Peter Killigrew.</div> <bR> <div> "<I>Mr. Rogers had not been appointed agent to the Packet boats at Falmouth in place of the late agent in regard to the private interest of Mr. Trefusis. </I><I><B> The late agent </B></I>[Francis Jones] <I><B>was removed for indiscreet conduct.</B></I>"</div> <bR> <bR> <div> ++++++++++++++  References to <B>Packet agents at foreign stations</B>:</div> <div>  </div> <div> Francis <B>Dashwood</B>, GPO Kingston (Jamaica) [Ref to <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id71_smuggling.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Smuggling "><U>smuggling</U></A></FONT> (Post 1. 13 p.884) 21/2/1787)</div> <bR> <div> [See: Fal Parish register: 2/12/1772, Married, William Dashwood to Elizabeth Bell</div> <div> -daughter of George Bell, the Packet Agent. ]</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>