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The 1820 Settler Correspondence
 as preserved in the National Archives, Kew
 and edited by Sue Mackay

pre 1820 Settler Correspondence before emigration

ALL the 1819 correspondence from CO48/41 through CO48/46 has been transcribed whether or not the writers emigrated to the Cape. Those written by people who did become settlers, as listed in "The Settler Handbook" by M.D. Nash (Chameleon Press 1987), are labelled 1820 Settler and the names of actual settlers in the text appear in red.

FRASER, James (1)

National Archives, Kew CO48/43, 216

20 Old Street

St.Lukes

11 September 1819

My Lord,

I beg leave to submit to the approbation of your Lordship the ten individuals hereunder mentioned with whom I am ready to proceed to the new colony forming at the Cape of Good Hope, according to the conditions prescribed by Government and signified in your Lordship's circular, which is now before me. Waiting the further orders of your Lordship I have the honour to be

Your Lordship's most humble and most obedient servant

James FRASER

Names of Married

Names of Unmarried

Profession

Age

Number of Children
under 14
Number of Children
above 14
 

James FRASER

 

21

   
 

James BEDDINGTON

Agriculuralist

     

Isaac WILKINS

 

Coppersmith

24

   

Joseph ADAMS

 

Butcher

Bred a Farmer

29

   

Thomas SLOANE

 

Farmer

30

Three

 

Peter FINCH

 

Smith

27

Two

 

Thomas NECKEN?

 

Farmer

35

Two

 

John STENT

 

Carpenter

26

Two

 
 

Robert GORE

Farmer

21

   
 

Fred MORRITT

Carpenter

23

   

John CHARLTON

 

Farmer

22

   
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