CO48/53
National Archives, Kew,
Transcribed by volunteers from the ZA-IB and ZA-EC Rootsweb mailing
lists from digital photographs taken by Sue Mackay at the National Archives.
The original correspondence is filed in order of receipt. Here it has been
placed in alphabetical order according to the surname of the writer, with letters
by the same writer in chronological order, for ease of reading. Original
spelling has been maintained.
Letters were either addressed to Lord BATHURST,
Secretary of State for the Colonies, (starting My Lord), or to his deputy Henry
GOULBURN (starting Sir). Reference numbers, where given, refer to printed page
numbers stamped on the letters and will enable visitors to the National
Archives to locate the letter more easily. If a page number is not given then
the date of the letter will give a good idea of its whereabouts in the file.
ALL the 1819 correspondence was transcribed (see
CO48/41 through CO48/46) whether or not the writers emigrated
to the
MANLEY,
Edward
56
No. 3 South
Row
New Road
May 11th
1820
Sir
Having
made arrangements to emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope with Major General
CAMPBELL at my own expence I should wish to be informed whether I may purchase
(at prime cost) agricultural implements at the colony as mentioned in a
circular letter from your office last year, His Majesty’s Government having
withheld at present any further encouragement, or as going out at my own
expence will make any difference in purchasing the articles in question.
I am Sir
Your obed’t serv’t
Edw. MANLEY
MILLS,
Daniel
4
20 January
1820
Sir,
From
the delay which has taken place in the embarkation of my Party for the
I have the honour to be Sir
Your most ob’t hble serv’t
Daniel MILLS
26
At Messrs.
HARRISON
12
19 February
1820
Sir,
It is
with extreme regret I am under the necessity of troubling you again which has
been occasioned by the delay in sailing. There is 3 of my people in the last
list who have got into employment & have declined going, for which I have
got 3 others in the same situation therefore there will be no alteration in the
deposit or anything but changing their names. I hope you will have the goodness
to excuse this trouble as can assure you it was not in my power to prevent it
I have the honour to be Sir
Your most ob’t hble serv’t
Daniel MILLS
NAVY BOARD
re CALTON’s Party (Filed under
1821 in CO48/56)
Navy Office
17 January
1820
Sir,
It
appearing by a letter from Lieutenant MUDGE RN dated
on board the Albury
Transport at Liverpool the 15th instant that the names of the
Emigrants for the
We are Sir your very humble servants
R SIPPING
J THOMSON
[illegible signature]
NEWCOMBE, Robert
122
Jan’y
2 1820
My Lord,
Having
not the opportunity of writing an answer to the letter received from Mr. GOULBURN
before our vessell with baggage arrived here, which
was this morning after a long detainment owing to the waters &c at Exeter
& Torhaven? have to inform your Lordship that Mr.
J. PARKIN did recommend me to take another person in
the room of C. CANTABURY, now ill, but on the arivall of the vessell with our
party of settlers, now alongside the Weymouth, him says unless you give me 5£ I
will not write to his Lordship recommending it to be done as I cannot do after
advancing so much for the party. I have been at L.M. CHEESMAN concerning it and him
said I had better state the whole of the business to your Lordship as then it
will show how I am situated in the party as going with Mr.J.
PARKIN. When I first consented in going with Mr. PARKIN as settler and others with me I did not know his
circumstances but since is otherwise to expectation so therefore I humbly beg
to lay this before your Lordship, the statement of whom I have paid deposit
into Mr. PARKIN’s hand which sum has been paid to
your order. The man Chr. HARWOOD in room of C. CANTABURY is a native of
Myself £10
Wm.LEATHERN £10
C. CANTABURY £10
J. MAYHO £10
SPRAGUE £5 Mr.PARKIN advanced
the other £5 to make compleat
HARRIGOOD £10
£55
paid by R. NEWCOMBE
These are persons that paid in Mr. PARKINs
hand for themselves
Mr. DOBSON £10
CLOG £10
LEACH £10
CROSS £10 this £10 him has
refunded to Mr. CROSS as him is not going
£40
Now Mr.PARKIN as conductor
advanced as follows
For himself & family £15
Do. his brother £10
SPRAGUE £5
£30
Refunded to Mr.CROSS £10
£40
This is a compleat shedule of the advanced deposits by the individuals of our
party and should humbly beg your lordship to secure the above sum to me on our arivall at the
Robert NEWCOMBE
Be pleased to direct on board the
[Note from GOULBURN]
State to Mr. PARKIN
the nature of the representation made & enquire
if he agrees with the correctness of it
124
Jan’y
5 1820
My Lord,
Having
on Sunday last writing answer to a letter received by me from Mr. GOULBURN and
not receiving an answer but have allowed it to from the fault of Mr. PARKIN not sending the letter which him has directed to Ld
C SUMMERSET at the Cape of Good Hope as him were desired so to do by L.R. CHEESEMAN, agent at
Portsmouth. Having this day seen Mr. CHEESEMAN on
board the
[Transcriber’s note: there now follows a copy of the
letter written above]
You
will be pleased to pardon me for sending again so quick but as seeing Mr. CHEESEMAN on board expecting this man whom I have taken in
the room of CANTABURY him advised to write [amently?] the same pirticulars as
this man is now on board and cannot have any vituals
till your lordship answer, as Mr. CHEESEMAN did not
know that Mr. PARKIN had sent to your office the
letter directed to Ld.C.SUMMERSET on Sunday evening
last and has him has refused now on board to send it should humbly beg your
lordship to favour me with an answer to this as understanding we are going to
sea in a few days in great trouble & anxiety of mind concerning it. Now on
board the
From your lordships humble servant
Robt. NEWCOMBE
NIND & COTTERRILL
re William WAIT
128
Jany
20 1820
Messrs NIND & COTTERRILL have the
honour of informing Mr. GOULBURN that the partnership disputes between Mr. LAFOSSE and Mr. WAIT have been settled by Mr. WAIT’s assigning to trustees the whole of his property
except for his household furniture linen & cloathes
& his interest in the grant of land at the Cape of Good Hope, and the Injunction
out of Court of Chancery has therefore been abandoned.
At
the same time Messrs NIND & COTTERILL
submit to Mr. GOULBURN their client’s claim under the assignment to the money
deposited by Mr. WAIT or at least so much of it as was deposited for persons
who have not actually proceeded to the
[pencilled note at foot: for
letter vide WAIT’s correspondence]
PARKER,
Richard (brother of William) Filed under A-L in CO48/52
166
[To Sir Nicholas COLTHURST
MP]
Waterview
Passage West
Feb 18th
1820
My dear Sir Nicholas.
In
the absence of my brother who is now aboard ship at Cove waiting the first fair
wind to sail for the Cape of Good Hope, I beg to request you will do me the
kindness by ascertaining whether Government intend to encourage emigration next
September to
Forgive the haste I write in and believe me most
sincerely
Your faithful friend
Rich’d
PARKER
PARKER,
William
147
Passage
West,
3 Jany 1820
Sir,
I
have had the honour to receive your letter of the 29th ult and
agreeably thereto take leave to return the letter to Lord Charles SOMERSET.
As
soon as the East Indian arrives in
It
will be necessary to substitute a few names in the room of some persons who
have declined proceeding from circumstances that have occurred since the lists
were returned.
I have the honour to be Sir
Your most obedient humble servant
Wm. PARKER
159
Ship East Indian
Cove of
22 January
1820
Sir,
With
reference to my letter of the 3rd inst to which I have not as yet
been favoured with an answer I take leave to inform you that the extreme
severity of the weather prevented a few of the settlers joining this ship here
until yesterday and that from deaths, marriages and various other circumstances
that have occurred among the individuals who were to proceed with me to the
Cape of Good Hope I was obliged to make a few more alterations in the list of
settlers.
I
have now the honour to transmit you three fair copies of the number actually on
board who have been mustered by Lieut. WOLRIDGE RN
Agent of Transports and who transmits to Lieut. LEWIS the Resident Agent here a
fair copy of the same.
On a
consultation with Rear Admiral Sir Josiah ROWLEY and Lt. LEWIS it has been
deemed most expedient to prevent delay and expense that the East Indian should proceed to sea
although I have not received a dispatch for General Lord Charles Henry
SOMERSET, but which I take leave to submit may be sent by the first ship to His
Excellency.
I
have to crave your reference to my letter of the 25th ult wherein
the cause of the number of able bodied men being seventy six instead of seventy
five is fully explained.
I have the honour to be Sir with much respect
Your most obedient humble servant
Wm. PARKER
161
Ship East Indian
23 Jan 1820
Mr.
Wm. PARKER presents his compliments to Mr. GOULBURN ,
takes leave to send him three copies of the Rules which with the very kind
assistance of Mr. WILBERFORCE and several other distinguished and benevolent
characters he has framed for the management of the settlers proceeding under
his direction to the
The
wind has unfortunately come round to the southward and it almost blows a
hurricane. Mr. PARKER does not intend sleeping on shore, that no further
alteration should take place in the list of his settlers after requests that
Mr. GOULBURN will have the kindness to forward the enclosed to Lord ENNISMORE and Mr. MACAULEY.
PARKIN, John
145
On board the
Jan 2 1820
My Lord,
I have to inform your Lordship of altering my shudel [schedule] that Benjamin LEECH he may take out his
son Richard LEECH aged 12 years hold. I reckmend
him to your Lordship.
I beg to rimen your
Lordships verry humble sirvent
John PARKIN
Conductor No.20 to the
PRINGLE,
Thomas
149
January 8, 1820
Sir,
I beg leave to inform you that the party
of settlers proceeding under my direction to the Cape of Good Hope have
now all arrived in
Previous to their departure from
With a view to fill the vacancy that now remains for one
man, I have advertised yesterday, but we do not consider it of any importance,
unless required by the Colonial Office. I enclose a list of the individuals
withdrawn and of those added in their place, and hope that you will be pleased
to allow of this alteration, especially as we now losing rather more capital
and fewer persons.
Mr. BARROW of the Admiralty has informed me that you have
been so good as promise me a letter of recommendation
to the Governor. For this most important
favour I beg to present my most grateful and respectful acknowledgements.
As a slight testimony of my sense of the obliging attentions
you have bestowed on my concerns, I beg leave to request your acceptance of the
little volume with (sic) accompanies this letter, & I remain with the
highest respect Sir,
Your
obliged & Obdt. Servt,
Thos. PRINGLE
Names of the persons withdrawn from Thos. PRINGLE’s
Party of Settlers proceeding to the
William
PRINGLE, agriculturist }
Alex.
NOBLE, joiner }
Walter
TURNBULL, Blacksmith } = 5 men
Andrew
SCOTT, ploughman }
William
RITCHIE, Ploughman }
Isabel SLORACH, wife of Alex. NOBLE = 1 woman.
Margaret NOBLE
}
Mary NOBLE } children of Alex. NOBLE = 4 children
Isabel NOBLE }
Christian NOBLE
}
Total 10
persons
Names of
the persons engaged into the party in place of those withdrawn
:-
Thomas DAVIDSON,
agriculturist, aged 22 }
James ECKORN (sic), ploughman, aged 20 } = 4 men
Alexander MORTIMER,
ploughman, aged 23 }
James SOUNESS, ploughman, aged 19 }
Of the four
men last mentioned the two former are natives of Roxburghshire, the two latter
servants of Mr. SYDSERFF are from
[Note from GOULBURN]
Alter his list accordingly – thank him for his book
and say I will send him the instruction to Ld.Charles
in a few days
10 Jan
152
January 13, 1820
Sir,
I had the honour to receive your note of 10th
instant the day before yesterday, and would have more promptly obeyed your
directions in returning the letter to the Governor had I not experienced some
difficulty in getting it out of a trunk which my friends had left at the Wharf
on their arrival. I now inclose it along
with the full and final list of my party, which are now perfectly completed by
the accession of Wm. ELLIOT and
As the list of alterations sent in a few days ago will be
superseded if this is accepted of I have to prevent all mistakes inclosed first
a list of the whole names withdrawn and those received in their room, and
secondly a complete return of the whole names &c of the party as they will
stand upon these alterations being made.
I have the
honour to be with the highest respect Sir
Your much
obliged and obdt. servt.
Tho
PRINGLE
Names
withdrawn from Tho. PRINGLE’s party
of settlers.
William
PRINGLE, agriculturist
Alex.
NOBLE, joiner
Walter
TURNBULL, blacksmith,
Andrew
SCOTT, ploughman
Wm. RITCHIE,
ploughman = 5
men
Mary
PRINGLE
Isabel SLORACH, wife of Alex. NOBLE = 2 women
Margaret,
Mary, Isabel & Christian NOBLE = 4 children
Total 11 persons
Names of
persons taken into the party in the room of those withdrawn :-
Alex.
MORTIMER, ploughman, aged 23
James SOUNESS, ploughman, aged 19
James ECKORN (sic), ploughman, aged 20
William
ELLIOT, agriculturist, aged 27
Ezra RIDGARD, saddler, aged 29. =
5 men
Elizabeth RIDGARD, wife of
Andrew RIDGARD
Marianne RIDGARD, children of E. RIDGARD,
aged 2 and 1 year = 2 children
Total 8
persons
Enclosure
in letter of 13th Janry 1820
Return of
Settlers proceeding to the
No.48
Total No.of men (besides TP) 12
Total No.of women 6
Total No.of children under 14 years of age 6
Total No.of the whole party 24
£150
Table showing Names of Men,
Ages, Trade, Women, Ages, Male children,
Ages, Female Children, Ages. [The amount
of deposit money has been inserted in the last column; the figure is inserted
below in square brackets]
Robert
PRINGLE, 61, Agriculturist, Mrs. R. PRINGLE, 45, R. D. PRINGLE, 10, C.H.PRINGLE, 7, Beatrice PRINGLE, 3½ [10]
John PRINGLE ,29, Agriculturist. [10[
Charles SYDSERFF, 22, Agriculturist. [10]
George RENNIE, 23, Agriculturist, Mrs RENNIE (his mother), 44, C RENNIE,
11.[20]
John RENNIE,
22, Agriculturist, Eliz. RENNIE (his
sister), 15 [20]
Peter RENNIE, 20, Agriculturist. [10]
Alex. MORTIMER, 23, Ploughman. [10]
James SOUNESS, 19 Ploughman. [10]
James ECKORN (sic) 20, Ploughman. [10]
Wm. ELLIOT, 27, Agriculturist. [10]
Ezra RIDGARD, 29, Saddler, Eliz. RIDGARD (his wife), 24, And. RIDGARD, 2, Marianne RIDGARD, 1.
[20]
Th. PRINGLE, 30, Mrs. Tho. PRINGLE, 32, .Janet BROWN, 35 [20]
£150
177
Deptford, On board the Brilliant Transport
February 1 1820
Sir,
I beg to mention that I embarked
here yesterday with my party, and we are appointed to sail on Thursday first. May
I therefore take the liberty to solicit the obliging letter of introduction to
Lord Charles SOMERSET which you were so kind as
promised me – if it is not already inclosed in the personal letter which you so
politely returned to me with the alterations in my party stated in it.
I take the opportunity to mention also, that my friends in leaving
Your much
obliged & obdt. Sevt.
Tho. PRINGLE
ROBERTSON,
George re J GRANT (see correspondence of J. GRANT in
CO48/52)
255
The petition of the undersigned inhabitants of East Ross
to the Rt Hon’ble Lord
BATHURST one of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Humbly sheweth
That
the case of your petitioners is one of unexampled hardship to which they beg
with respectful earnestness your Lordships most serious consideration.
In the month
of September last Captain GRANT of the 78th Regiment by public
advertisement at the church doors and by hand bills invited as many persons of
good character as were inclined to emigrate with him
to the
We
are in the most destitute situation, having disposed of all our property, and
having been obliged to subsist since November on the little money we made by
the sale of our property. Should your Lordship not be good enough to induce
Government to afford relief we cannot fail to become a burden on the parishes
in which we reside. May it please your Lordship therefore to take our case into
your most gracious consideration and grant us what relief to you seems meet.
George ROBERTSON
John McINTOSH
John ROSS
William FORBES
John BROUSTER
Donald ROSS
William CAMERON
Collin McDONALD
John ROSS
Alex DINGWALL
George TAYLOR
John POLSON
SCOTT, John
et al
The humble petition of John SCOTT, James CRAWFORD,
Charles SLEE and William KIDSON,
emigrants to the
Humbly sheweth
That your petitioners having paid to Mr. WILLSON ten pounds as Government deposit and five pounds
fifteen shillings for Stores & Commission each feel themselves much
inconvenienced by the arrangement of the ship that they consider their lives in
danger during the passage – in consequence of the partition placed in the
middle of the ship preventing that free current of air which is so highly
necessary where 250 persons are placed in a space not exceeding 15 yards by 9
yards. Your petitioners further pray that their situation will be taken early
into consideration and your petitioners will ever pray
John SCOTT
James CRAWFORD
Charles SLEE
William KIDSON
[Note from GOULBURN: Refer to the Navy Board for their
consideration. 8 Jany.]
SEPHTON, Hezekiah
On board the
Deptford
3 Jan 1820
Sir,
Being
informed by Capt. YOUNG that the defaulters in my party who had engaged to emigrate to the Colony of the
In
regard to the medicine chest for the use of my party I should wish to be
informed if the Surgeon Mr. CAMPBELL is to retain the same (altho
he does not belong to our party but intends to settle with Mr. BAILY’s party on our arrival at the Cape) or whether it is
to be for the use of my party on our being located in the Colony.
I am Sir your obed’t serv’t
Hez’h SEPHTON
Robert HARVEY 32 Labourer Mary 24 instead of Wm.PUTNAM
Richard PICKSTOCK 45 Taylor
Francis 35 instead of Jas. ANSTEAD
Wm. GRAVETT 16
Thomas KING 39 Carpenter Sarah 39 instead of MALKIN
Thomas 14
William 6
John AMES 44 Sayar
[surveyor] Sarah 27 instead of Edw. BULPIT
Sarah 2
Georg GRAVETT 18 Labour instead of JARROTT
William PENNEY 30 Bricklayer Roashannah
30 instead of Jas. ROSS
Thomas NORTON 38 Smith Eatey
[sic] 38 instead of John BOWTELL
Philip DIXON 30 Smith Elizabeth 27 instead of Jas.
MAGUIRE
Phebe 1
[Note from GOULBURN: Admit the substitutions and
acquaint him that the Gov. has been directed to make such an allowance to Mr.
SHAW as may be adequate to his decent maintenance.]
319
Deptford
Jan 20 1820
Sir,
I
hope you will excuse me being so trubelsom but the
cause is that i trubel you
at this time, Joseph GOODS is dead previous to our imbarkation
and in consequence of that his family cannot proceed with me to the Colony of
the Cape of Good Hope and to inable me to return
their deposit wich they stand in great need of i wish to replase them by two
others who willing to go with me.
Your obed’t servant
Hez’h SEPHTON
George CLARK 36 Husbandman Elizabeth 31 instead of
Jos. GOODS Sener
Childer George 8
Thomas ISTED 36 Husbandman
Susan 29 instead of Jos. GOODS Juner
Sarah 4
Thomas 2
332
Feb’y
14th 1820
Sir,
In
answer to your letter respecting Mr. GOODS deposit money paid into the hands of
His Majesty’s Government appears from my books to be twenty seven pounds ten
shillings which exactly corresponds with the family intered
in the same. Also with the schedule returned to you. The mistake appears to be
this, a man the name of James ANSTEAD who intended to
go in the party borrowed of Mr. G five pounds which was paid at the time the
last deposit was paid by GOODS & Mr. G received the receipt for the whole
which was twenty two pounds ten shillings. This I have explained to ANSTEAD when he said he had a memorandum to prove he paid
it himself & this is the sum I am willing to return to Mrs G & told ANSTEAD the same a long time ago if he would produce such
memorandum and in order to prove I have no intention to withold
from Mrs.G [how might?] have remitted to you five
pounds – hoping you will cause ANSTEAD to bring to
you the meorandum he says he has in his possession
before you [give] Mrs.G any more money than was
returned and if it appears to you Mrs.G has paid any
more than has been returned you will of course give her the money remitted but
if on the contrary I trust you will the first opportunity remit the sum to me
at the Cape & you will oblige
Your humble servant
Hezekiah SEPHTON
Rec’d the sum of £5 in question
M. GOODES
[Note from GOULBURN: To what does this refer?]
SMITH, John
of WILLSON’s Party
324
Le Bell
Feby
5th 1820
Sir,
The
man of the name of Charles BOWSHER that was going out
with me has wilfully left me without any cause and I have lernt
by a letter I receivd in the Downs he has or means to
go and apply to your office for a passage in the Brilliant and say he lost his
passage by mistaking the time the ship was said to sail and I have got another
man in his stead of the name of Mathew MENS..[name unfortunately obscured in binding] which name (with
your primission) shall be inserted in the list and
Charles BOWSHER erased from the same as he has forfited all by runing away from
the ship.
Honored Sir I have the honor to be
Your Honor’s most obed’t and
humble servant
John SMITH
[Note from GOULBURN: Take care this man has not got a
passage]
SMITH, P re
Mrs GOODE
321
26th
January 1820
Dear Sir,
In
compliance with your directions I went this morning to see the poor woman whose
case was imperfectly related to you in the letter addressed to you by Mrs. R.
GRAY.
As
you had also desired me to proceed to Deptford upon business relative to the
I was
informed by SEPHTON, the leader of the party of
Wesleyans who are on board that ship, that the name of the woman after whom I
enquired must be GOODE; that her husband had belonged to his party but that he
had been prevented by illness from coming on board the ship; but he had seen
him five weeks ago in good health. A man named TALBOT, a friend of GOODEs, who was present, told me that he had died of a
liver complaint. It was true that GOODE had paid SEPHTON
35£ as deposit money and 2£ 7s the share of the settlers’ subscription among
themselves to purchase tools &c. The former sum SEPHTON
meant to return to the widow; but without harbouring any suspicion of his
integrity I suggested that the money should immediately be lodged at this
office, conceiving that to be the best means of satisfying you that Mrs. GOODEs claim would be attended to without delay.
With
respect to the small sum, SEPHTON stated that
according to the regulations adopted by his fellow settlers it had become
forfeited to the Society, but I urged him to endeavour if possible to obtain
the consent of the people to return that money also, which he promised to do.
The
baggage and bedding of the poor family had already been returned to them by
Captain YOUNG’s order.
I
then went to see Mrs. GOODE, & Captain YOUNG, who had business in town, was
good enough to accompany me. She seemed to be a very decent woman and told me
her case very shortly. Her husband having left his occupation and being burthened with a large family, had
fretted very much at not receiving orders to embark so soon as he had expected.
He felt sick and took to his bed. An apothecary who
was sent for from the Borough, after seeing the poor man, told Mrs. GOODE that
he was dying of a broken heart.
I
should observe that the period which elapsed between GOODE’s
leaving his occupation and the order of embarkation ( the ) [left blank] did not exceed four or five
weeks.
Mrs.
GOODE further mentioned that in order to support her dying husband and her
family she had gradually sold their bedding, that the expences of his funeral
amounting to 6 guineas remained unpaid and that she had only a few shillings in
her possession.
I
enquired whether in her embarrassing situation she would not be glad to proceed
with her family to the
I
proposed that she should at least not repel the opportunity of providing for
some of her boys by allowing them to proceed to the
Captain
YOUNG had the humanity to offer to provide for one of her sons in the Navy, but
she was again overpowered by her feelings.
I
then begged her to think these matters over; gave her a pound to provide for
her immediate wants and left her with the assurance that her husband’s deposit
money would be returned to her tomorrow or the day following.
I have the honour to be, dear Sir
Your most faithful humble servant
P. SMITH
SOUTHEY, George
298
Near
Jan 1st
1820
Sir,
I am
sorry to be under the necessity of again troubling you, but Wm. HITCHCOCK and
family, Thomas HITCHCOCK aged 16, William HALLETT and
family and Thomas REGEN aged 16 not being come on
board I beg leave to take in lieu of them
John BIGGS 42 Mason
William BIGGS 13 his son
John BIGGS Jun 19 Mason
Eliza THOMAS 18
Thomas SAWYER 21 Husbandman
Geo. RUSSELL 20 Husbandman
James BERRY 14
I am Sir your most obedient servant
Geo. SOUTHEY
STANLEY,
John
300
Star Inn
1 January
1820
Sir,
Applying
to Lieut. CHURCH on the subject of beds for persons going to the
As
soldiers in transports are always found beds, I fully expected they would be
found for my party, and as a matter of course came unprepared with them. My
wife and self are provided but the settlers will want 20 beds & suitable
blankets – as they are even on board quite destitute for themselves and
children – the weather being severe they and their children feel the effects of
it, and as it is not in my power to find them, having been at great expense for
many months without being able to get a profit by my business, my capital is
reduced at least one third since my offer to Government was made to proceed to
the Cape. Requesting you will be good enough to grant the beds immediately
I am most respectfully Sir
Your obed’t humble servant
John STANLEY
[Note from GOULBURN]
I forget what the arrangement was with respect to beds
[Answer from clerk, probably Richard PENN]
As most of the settlers were prepared to take beds
with them only a limited supply was directed to be placed on board the
transports
Order 8 Jan’y
307
January 4th
1820
Sir,
I was
honoured with your note of the 31st ult for which am obliged. The
purport of the present is to hand you original duplicate and triplicate returns
of settlers proceeding under my direction to the
As I
before requested, the beds & blanquets required
are very much wanted. You will readily admit that when the weather is as severe
as to make the thermometer rest 14 degrees below the freezing point that it
cannot be very comfortable for men, women and little children from 1 month to 6
years old to take up their abode every night on bare boards on board the John, now lying in the River Mersey. As
to my finding them it is entirely out of the question. For want of them I have
been obliged to take ASHBROOK’s family ashore, as for
want of proper bedding clothes and the proper necessaries one of his children
is dying of a fever and two others of the measles. They are now ashore at my
expense for lodging, medicines and the [means?] of food, what I certainly was
totally unprepared for. I have no children of my own, yet it would appear I am
liable to the maintenance of fifteen both in England and elsewhere, to which my
funds are totally inadequate, for as I before observed what with the total
absence of business and the support of my family for 6 months, since my offer
in July my property is reduced full one third. I beg to be excused for being
this candid and remain most respectfully, Sir
Your obedient humble servant
John STANLEY
NB The letter to Lord Charles SOMERSET is on board the
John but shall be sent by tomorrow
night’s post.
[Note from GOULBURN]<