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.

KEELER, John

Written by Sue Mackay on 04 April 2015.

National Archives, Kew CO48/44, 196

9 Union Street

Walcot Place

Lambeth

Surry

August 13 1819

My Lord,

Having been informed that Government has adopted a plan for the assistance of British subjects emigrating to the Cape of Good Hope, I beg leave to ask of your Lordship a copy of their proposal. I am a gardener by profession & have a wife & five children dependent on my exertion. But giving the preference to a colony where I shall be surrounded by my countrymen & protected by the laws of the Mother Country; under these circumstances I have made this application, an answer to which will confer the greatest of obligations on

Your Lordship's very humble servant

John KEELER

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