Guyana

<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> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://www.multimap.com/world/places.cgi" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.multimap.com/world/places.cgi"><U><B>Map Locations</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>courtesy of multimap.com</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>British Guyana Gallery</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.sandafayre.com/gallery/country_60_1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.sandafayre.com/gallery/countr"><U><B><IMG SRC="21e878c0.jpg" border=0 width="135" height="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Book Antiqua" ><B>1850  </B></FONT><B>© </B><A HREF="http://www.sandafayre.com/html/home.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.sandafayre.com/html/home.htm"><U><B>Sandafayre </B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="21f6e8c0.jpg" border=0 width="110" height="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Book Antiqua" ><B>1853 </B></FONT><B>© </B><A HREF="http://www.sandafayre.com/html/home.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.sandafayre.com/html/home.htm"><U><B>Sandafayre</B></U></A><B> </B></div> <bR> </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> <A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Spain Corunna, Gijon, Vigo, Cadiz"><U>Spain - Corunna, Gijon, Vigo, Cadiz</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Packet Routes"><U>Packet Routes</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id53.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Portugal, Lisbon, Faro Oporto"><U>Portugal, Lisbon, Faro & Oporto</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mediterranean Gibraltar, Malta "><U>Mediterranean - Gibraltar, Malta +</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Portugal: Madeira the Azores "><U>Portugal: Madeira & the Azores </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Barbados, Jamaica Bahamas"><U>Barbados, Jamaica & Bahamas</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Leeward Islands"><U>Leeward Islands</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id150.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Trinidad Tobago"><U>Trinidad & Tobago</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pensacola Charlestown"><U>Pensacola & Charlestown</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id69.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Surinam"><U>Surinam</U></A>   |   <B>Guyana</B>   |   <A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mexico"><U>Mexico</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id140.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Florida, Carolinas, Virginia"><U>Florida, Carolinas, Virginia</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="New York"><U>New York</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="N. 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(RMSP), which soon relocated to Southampton. </div> <bR> <div> It seems worth noting from <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.guyanaguide.com/history.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.guyanaguide.com/history.htm"><U><U>G</U></U></A><A HREF="http://www.guyanaguide.com/history.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.guyanaguide.com/history.htm"><U><U>uyanaguide</U></U></A></FONT> and elsewhere, that:</div> <div> "The first English language newspaper, <I>Royal Essequebo & Demerary Gazette</I>, appeared weekly, from 22 August 1796 until 1802, when the colonies were handed back to the Dutch under the Treaty of Amiens. and:</div> <div> "In 1815, the colonies of Essequibo, Demerara, and Berbice were officially ceded to Great Britain at the Congress of Vienna which, in <B>1831</B>, were consolidated as <B>British Guiana."</B></div> <div> Also of interest:"<B>The railroad</B> extending from Georgetown to Plaisance, on the East Coast of Demerara, was opened in <B>1848</B>. It was <B>the first of its kind on the continent of South America</B>". [http://www.guyanaguide.com/history.htm]</div> <bR> <div> =================== <IMG SRC="06546460.png" border=0 width="70" height="70" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Some references from the archives......</div> <bR> <div> FP 8/4/1843: By R.W.I.M. Steamer <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id80_teviot.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Royal Mail Steam Packet Co"><U><I>Teviot</I></U></A><A HREF="id80_teviot.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Royal Mail Steam Packet Co"><U>,</U></A></FONT> we learn that the company's steamer <I>Medway </I>had again been on shore on the island of Sabo, so much injured she must now come home to be repaired.  <I>Forth</I>, it is said, will be sent out without a mail to take her place.  <I>Teviot</I> came home without the Jamaica mail, people of <B>Demerara</B> very wroth of not receiving a mail from England in usual course. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> FP 8/7/1843: Arrived RMS <I>Clyde</I>, Symons, with 47 passengers and $180,000 plus 123 Serons of <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC3333" FACE="Arial" ><B>Cochineal </B></FONT>on freight.  Left <B>Demerara</B> 3rd, Barbados 5th, Dominica 8th, St. Thomas (date?), Bermuda 15th & Fayal 25 June,1843. [FP 30/5/1840 refers to <I>Vulture </I>steamer, London to St. Petersburg, with £150,000 of Cochineal & <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330099" FACE="Arial" ><B>Indigo</B></FONT>, lost near the island of Oesel  on 8 May,1840 - indicating the trade & value of these commodities.]</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>