CO48/86 National Archives, Kew, London  ~   Selected Settler Correspondence for 1826

 

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 R.W. HAY (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 Cape, and the names of actual settlers appeared in red. Here only letters by known settlers or their families, or letters of great relevance to the 1820 settlers, have been transcribed, therefore no colour distinction has been used. In many cases further letters by the correspondents below are filed with the 1819/1820 correspondence.

 

 

ATHERSTONE, John

 

3

Cape Town

14 April 1826

My Lord,

            The great benefits which have been lately conferred on the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope prove most clearly that a very lively interest in its prosperity continues to exist in Great Britain, and induces a well grounded belief that Your Lordship would be disposed favourably to receive and consider any plan that had for its object the welfare of its inhabitants.

            With this impression I beg to state that although numerous and excellent Public Schools have been established in the Colony, yet there is no Institution where knowledge on Philosophical subjects can be obtained, and consequently the most profound ignorance exists with the young Dutch, and others educated here, on all objects of science; this reproach they are most anxious to avert, and last winter pressed me strongly to give a course of lectures on Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, that I deemed it right to make His Excellency Lord Charles SOMERSET acquainted with the fact, and my intention of complying with the wish so generally expressed, should it meet His Excellency’s approbation. I have great pleasure in informing Your Lordship that His Excellency promptly and kindly entered into their feelings and encouraged me to the undertaking, first by giving it his patronage and support and afterwards by frequently honoring the lectures with his presence.

            This My Lord was the first attempt ever made at the Cape of Good Hope to give Public Lectures on any subject of science; they were orally delivered and aided by demonstrations and experiments, but for further information respecting them I beg to refer you to His Excellency.

            I have been frequently requested to continue to lecture, but my professional duties leave me so little time that I find it to be impossible without relinquishing my profession, for which certainly no adequate compensation could be given me by those who might be expected to attend the lectures.

            I beg therefore to propose to Your Lordship that a Public School of Natural and Experimental Philosophy and Chemistry may be established and supported at the Cape of Good Hope by the British Government; that the Institution may be provided with all the necessary chemical and philosophical apparatus and that persons of both sexes, when of a proper age, may be admitted free of expence, or for a trifling sum on entrance.

            Should this meet the approval of His Majesty’s Ministers I shall feel highly honored in being appointed to deliver the lectures and will use every exertion to make them as generally useful as possible.

I have the honor to be My Lord

Your Lordship’s most obedient servant

John ATHERSTONE

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

 

BAILIE, A

 

49

6 Manchester Street

Manchester Square

June 16th 1826

Sir,

            I would not presume to address you was it not that my son Mr John BAILIE has been upwards of six years at the Cape Colony without having received the title to the land which the Government were so good as to grant him.

            I shall esteem it a great favor if you will do me the honor to inform me if there are any obstructions to the titles of land being given in the colony, or if any orders have gone out respecting it.

I have the honor to be Sir

Your most obedient humble servant

A. BAILIE

 

BARRY, James

 

66

Cape Town

Nov 1st 1826

My Lord

            I did myself the honor to address a letter to Your Lordship several months since thro’ HM Commissioners of Inquiry referring to the cruel, disgraceful & I contend unjustifiable manner in which I had been deprived of my office, my professional character materially injured & my fair prospects in life quickly blighted. I did set forth the proximate cause of these transactions but the first, the predisposing cause, I held back, trusting that when Lord Charles SOMERSET reflected coolly and dispassionately upon the circumstance his sense of justice would induce him to see me righted. I have waited; nothing has been done; but to my uttermost astonishment I have just learned thro’ my friends in England that my conduct respecting a statement that I had made of an opinion of Col. BIRD’s regarding Lord C.H. SOMERSET has been much misrepresented to Your Lordship. This indeed accounts for the delay. I therefore hasten to inform you that I have consequently communicated confidentially the whole and every circumstance in detail to my friend Sir Jahleel BRENTON, who is authorised by me to communicate the same personally to your Lordship if necessary, and in the event of his not being able to do so, thro’ either of my friends Mr James STUART or Mr. Henry ELLIS. And I have only further to say that my silence hitherto on this subject arose (and my present backwardness arises) from my sincere and ardent wish to do nothing that could in any way injure Lord Charles; but solely to rescue my good name from dishonor, and this I have endeavoured to impress thoroughly on the minds of my friends, who are men of strict honor.

I have the honor to remain

Your Lordship’s most obed’t serv’t

James BARRY

 

79

Cape Town

Nov 20th 1826

Sir,

            I have this morning received your letter of the 25th June last, acquainting me that Earl BATHURST “sees no reason to doubt the propriety of the arrangement which has been recently made by the Government of the Cape for investing in a Medicine Board the execution of the duties which had previously been assigned to the Colonial Medical Inspector.” This death blow to my well founded hopes that Earl BATHURST would not sanction the ruin which I have been so unmeritedly involved in compels me once more to bring my case to his Lordship’s notice. To prevent to motives of my application being misunderstood I beg to disclaim any intention of requesting the restoration of my situation as Colonial Medical Inspector. Since I do not complain of the abolition of the office or of its duties being transferred to a Medical Board, but I do complain of the unprecedented & to me injurious & disgraceful manner in which it was done & in which I was so abruptly removed - & also I contend the injustice in not being placed at the head of that Board after the arduous and zealous professional labours in which I had been engaged for a series of years without any imputation on my conduct during that period.

            On the 1st of this month I addressed a letter to Earl BATHURST of which the enclosed is a copy. I beg to express thro’ you my hopes that when his Lordship shall have considered the circumstances under which I was deprived of my situation, my professional reputation defamed & my peace of mind destroyed (which will be laid before him by my friends) his Lordship’s sense of justice will induce him to consider me as entitled to that redress which an injured man has a right to expect at his hands. It is here perhaps needless for me to enforce how dear, how very dear, to me my good name is, and how very anxious I am to make every human effort in order to avert the heavy calamities consequent to the loss of it. I therefore deem it my bounden duty to vindicate my integrity & to rescue it as soon as possible from the unworthy imputations which have been heaped upon it; and to manifest my honorable transactions to the world, without which even my fair claims to, and anxious expectations of, military promotion may continue to be obstructed if not totally annihilated.

I am Sir your most obedient Servant

James BARRY

 

[Transcriber’s Note: James BARRY was a fascinating character and was in fact a woman! See

http://www.usmedicine.com/column.cfm?columnID=53&issueID=28]

 

BUTLER, Thomas

 

37

Location near Grahamstown

17th May 1826

My Lord,

            With great respect I take the liberty of informing you that I brought out a party of settlers to the Colony from Ireland for whom I laid down my own money in the Treasury in London and being sent to a place called Clanwilliam where no good could be done and where I lost, I may say, all Sir, as being obliged to pay for all my rations there – was sent here, a distance of more than eight hundred miles. Indeed to enumerate all my family & myself suffered in this Colony for these last six years would take up too much of your Lordship’s time and would not I am very certain be very pleasing to your Lordship’s feeling hearty. I have always remained on my location and have made as great exertions as any man, altho’ my servants (all of whom I discharged on account of the total failure of the crops) never did any good for me. I have two sons fully capable of taking care of this place and my wish is to return to Ireland and bring to the Frontier a party of my distressed and turbulent countrymen. It would be a famous change for them and would materially aid the whole of the district as there is a great want of artisans and labourers. I am certain I can procure in the neighbourhood I came from in Ireland plenty of both tradesmen and labourers on almost any terms and many of their relatives and friends are here already. The terms I should wish to bring them out on would be to take charge until our arrival in Grahamstown and then discharge them – suppose give them a months rations – There is no doubt but they would be immediately employed at high wages, for bad as my misfortunate countrymen are I should not like to sell them as I have seen done here. I gave mine all their discharges without a penny expence to themselves. Let the Government pay me what should be deemed adequate to my trouble & I will go to Ireland at my own expence. As I have been a great sufferer I expect your Lordship will take me into consideration and give me an opportunity of extricating myself and leaving this place (a good one) free and unencumbered to my children when it may please Providence to call me from this life. I beg your Lordship’s answer and have the honor to be

Your Lordship’s most obed’t serv’t

Thos. BUTLER

 

PS Please direct to Captain BUTLER Grahamstown. The rust in the wheat this season has been worse than ever, however we have learned to live without bread.

 

43

Location near Grahamstown

2nd June 1826

Sir,

            Having already experienced your kindness I have now taken the liberty (with reluctance) of intruding on your precious time. I wrote to Lord BATHURST by the last post requesting his Lordship to allow me to proceed to Ireland (at my own expence) to bring out another party of my turbulent countrymen on such terms as the Government might think proper and to compensate me for my time & trouble. These people I should wish to bring to Grahamstown, where labor is very [scarce?] and where there is a great want of labourers and artisans. I have established my two sons here who are quite equal to the care of the place, but being heavily in debt on account of the failure of the crops and having so many people to support I think by this step I should be enabled to pay all and leave this place unencumbered to my sons, which has been always my great object. If you would have the goodness to communicate with Lord BATHURST on this subject on my behalf it would serve me most materially. I am certain of getting plenty of people in the neighbourhood I came from, many of their relatives being settled here already. Pray excuse all this trouble. I have the honor to be

Your most obed’t serv’t

Thomas BUTLER

 

CARLISLE, Frederick [see 1825 correspondence]

 

95

Belmont

6th March 1826

Sir,

            May I beg to call your attention again to the subject of the Memorial of the British Settlers at the Cape of Good Hope. My reason for troubling you with the present communication arises from uncertainty as to whether you may not be awaiting a further application from me before you proceed in that subject. The last time I had the honor of an interview with Mr, HORTON he informed me that nothing more could then be done, in consequence of which intimation I left town and have not yet returned. As a guide therefore to my doing so, may I presume to request, Sir, the favor of your informing me when Earl BATHURST will be at leisure to take the question into consideration, for should his Lordship be pleased to comply with the wishes of the Settlers by recommending their application to the favorable notice of His Majesty’s Government, I have no doubt that many persons would now be glad to avail themselves of the opportunity of removing to one of His Majesty’s colonies.

            If I am not trespassing too far, Sir, on your attention, I will take the liberty of saying a few words relative to the possibility of reimbursing HM Government for any sums which it may be thought advisable to advance for the purpose of transporting British labourers to the Cape of Good Hope. It will be, I fear, a most difficult matter to point out any mode by which such reimbursement could be affected on the part of the settlers, or secured to the satisfaction of Government. In fact after the most mature consideration I strongly regard it as being next to impracticable. The rate of wages stated in the documents I have already laid before you being as high as the settlers can possibly offer without precluding entirely the probability of profitable returns, it cannot be supposed that they are capable of anything more than the payment and maintenance of the emigrants when landed in the Colony – their funds being so reduced (by various causes, with the nature of which you are probably, Sir, in some measure already acquainted) as to render it extremely difficult for them to proceed in their undertaking. On the other hand if we are to look to the labourers themselves for repayment, the subject appears involved in equal difficulty. Considering that the term for which it is proposed to indenture them is only three years (for I take it there can be no security after the term of indenture has expired) if an instalment amounting to one third of the expence incurred upon each individual should be deducted by the employer from the amount of wages due to the labourer at the end of each year, the remaining sum would be considerably too trifling to induce people to leave this country, whatever might be the distress of their circumstances, or whatever representations were made to them of the advantages they would reap after their term of servitude was expired from the encouragement held out by the Colony to labouring population in general. Even this method will apply merely to that portion of the emigrants who are to receive wages, and not to apprentices who are to receive clothing only, consequently if feasible would be by no means complete. Again were this or any similar one adopted, a difficulty would arise respecting the security for the money advanced, and as the only apparent and tangible person would be the individual who conducts the emigration it appears to me that to become personally liable for the whole amount would be a responsibility by far too great for any individual to incur.

            I have much now, Sir, to offer on the subject but will not now further encroach upon your valuable time, but as I cannot set forth or elucidate any plan by which the desired object can be attained my future applications must be appeals to the often-tried and never failing generosity of HM Government.

I have the honor to be Sir

Your most obed’t humble servant

Fred. CARLISLE

 

97

10 Grays Inn Square

23rd May 1826

Sir,

            In response to the proceedings of the Committee of Emigration relative to the proposition given in by me, as it appears there is considerable disapprobation manifested of the scheme therein detailed of an Emigration to the Cape of Good Hope, I am now rather at a loss how to act, and a desire of obtaining some information for my future guidance is the occasion of my troubling you with the present communication.

            If it should appear that Government are not hostile to the principle but only to the particular plan of the proposed emigration, may I beg the favour of your informing me whether, upon learning the views of Government on the subject, it would be advisable for me to submit any such altered and amended proposition as shall in its detail be more conformable to those views, or whether it will be the pleasure of Government that the Colonial Department do lay down some rule whereby the same shall be conducted.

            I hope Sir you will excuse any apparent anxiety on my part to obtain as early information as possible of the probable issue of my proposition as the expence and loss of time incurred since leaving the Cape will be to me of material consequence before I can return thither, and I should be much obliged by your stating if there is any probability     (provided Government should finally reject the application) that my Lord BATHURST may think such expenditure and loss of time worthy of remuneration.

I have the honor to be Sir

Your most obed’t humble servant

Fred. CARLISLE

 

CHABAUD, John Antony

 

93

[Port Elizabeth?]

Cape of Good Hope

[February?] 13 1826

My Lord,

            Two years since [the landrost?] of this [region?] commenced a subscription for the purpose of building a church of the Established faith of the Church of England.... which I am directed to inform you is rapidly progressing under the management of a Committee which has desired me to solicit your Lordship that the Chaplain appointed to this township may be placed on the same footing as the Dutch clergy in the several districts by being allowed a house and other privileges at present not enjoyed by him. The Committee are induced to make this appeal to your Lordship in consequence of the reference made by His Excellency the Governor to an application made to him on the subject and desirous that the church establishment of their native country should be placed on an equally respectable footing with that of the Colony - the present Minister for Port Elizabeth, Revd. F. McCLELAND has merely his salary of Rd2000 per annum or £150, without any privileges. Trusting that your Lordship’s answer will be favourable to the wishes of the Committee

I have the honor to be, my Lord

Your Lordship’s most obed’t serv’t

John Ant’y CHABAUD   

 

CONNOR, Mary

 

Cork

July 21st 1826

The humble petition of Mary CONNOR

Most humbly sheweth

You hon’s pet’r begs leave with all humility to sollicit your hon’s humanity to act her relief as being now down to the greatest distress and have no means of supporting herself in Cork pet’rs husband and 7 children agreed with Mr. John INGRAM for 3 years and subsistance for the said term as being coopers to go to Cape Town. Pet’r haveing the missfortune of looseing her passage and her family and husband gone off to Cape Town. Pet’r hopes your hon’r will be so humane as to grant her a passage to go to Cape Town to her husband and children and for your hon’s prosperity in this life and glorious fellisity in the next, with ardent heart will fervently pray

Mary CONNOR

NB Please direct to Mary CONNOR to the care of Mr. Daniel HOLLAND, Master Cooper, Maylor Street, Cork.

 

I know the above named Mary CONNOR, I believe what she states to be strictly true, and take the liberty of recommending her case to the consideration of His Majesty’s Government

[illegible signature .....AGGETT]

Recorder of Cork

July 24 1826

 

I beg leave to join with the Recorder of Cork in recommending the petitioner  [??] hereto.

Cork, 25th July 1826

Thos. HARRISON

Mayor of Cork

 

John CONNOR and Mary CONNOR late of the City of Cork were legally and validly married according to the rites of the R.C. church by the Rev. T. BANG DD in the presence of Peter LOVER? Dennis CONWAY and Cath B.. [obscured in fold] in or about the year of our Lord 1792, there being no registry to be found as [obscured] in the days after the minutest enquiry & on the testimony of the above witnesses who are living and now before me in the town of Mallow Co.Cork, I certify the truth of the above.

Mr. Wm. JONES

Administrator of the Parish of Mallow

Mallow, July 26th Anno Domini 1826

 

I have made enquiry into the above statement and believe it to be correct

July 26th 1826

? ? BALDWIN

Curate of the Parish of Mallow

 

DAMANT, Thomas

 

126

Yelverton House

Tavistock

6th March 1826

The Memorial of Thomas DAMANT, Captain in the West Norfolk Regiment of Militia.

            Your memorialist having for many years suffered from acute rheumatism, was advised by many eminent medical men to try a warm climate, and consequently your Memorialist embarked for the Cape of Good Hope in Feb’y 1817, where he experienced considerable relief, and was induced to purchase a Place of 6,000 acres for the purpose of growing barley to distil, and having at a very great expence brought into cultivation near 200 acres and provided all the requisites for distilling, which by an old law was prohibited (from grain) consequently your Memorialist was obliged to sell the same at a very considerable loss. Your Memorialist received great attention from Lord Charles SOMERSET and doubt not had he then applied he might have had a grant of land. Your Memorialist finding his health requires a warm climate is desirous of returning to the Cape provided your Lordship will give him either a civil or military appointment or a grant of land (called loan plans) many of which are held by Dutchmen.

            Having served twenty seven years in the Norfolk Regiment he trusts he has some little claim as to a situation abroad, relying on your Lordship’s philanthropy, your Memorialist will in duty bound ever pray.         

 

[Note on reverse]

Rec’d from Mr. E. WODEHOUSE MP 17 Mar 1826

Inform the memorialist that in consequence of an application in his favor made by Mr. WODEHOUSE in promoting his mem’l, I am to acquaint him by [will?] of Ld BATHURST that the terms upon which land is granted at the Cape are as follows & then transmit points to paper.

 

128

Yelverton House

26th March 1826

My Lord,

            I had the honor of receiving your Lordship’s answer to my Memorial of the 6th inst wherein I requested an appointment either civil or military or the permission to purchase a loan plan, similar to the indulgence granted MR. TATE in 1817. My means are fully adequate to bring into cultivation a considerable portion of land, which I feel desirous to do. I therefore request your Lordship will allow me the choice of a district and which I am anxious to know some time previous to my leaving England, as it will take a considerable time to make the necessary preparations.

I have the honor to remain

Your Lordship’s obed’t humble serv’t

Thos. DAMANT

Capt W.N.M.

 

[note on reverse]

Acquaint him that altho’ Lord BATHURST will give him a letter requesting the Gov’r to grant him every facility, yet that it is not possible to empower him (Cap DAMANT) to select the land which he may wish to bring into cultivation.

 

132

16 Albany Street

Regent’s Park

3rd Nov 1826

Sir,

            Understanding it is the intention of Government to encourage emigration to the Colonies, and Earl BATHURST having acceded to my request for a grant of land at the Cape of Good Hope, I beg leave to enquire whether any allowance will be made for the passage of the persons I am desirous of taking out, as without such assistance it would be decidedly preferable to procure servants in the Colony.

I have the honor to remain your obed’t humble serv’t

Thos. DAMANT

 

134

16 Albany Street

Regent’s Park

9th Nov 1826

Sir,

            I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th containing Earl BATHURST’s reply to my letter of the 3rd.

            May I request (as but little time will be required in making preparations for my voyage without a party) that you will put me in possession of a copy of the letter which his Lordship had the goodness to say would be transmitted to the Government at the Cape, at your earliest convenience.

I am Sir your most obed’t serv’t

Thos. DAMANT

 

DEVENISH, Sarah

 

117

34 Land? St

Boro

London

July 5th 1826

My Lord,

            I presume the very great liberty of memorialising your Lordship for a free passage on board the Barbara, now going to the Cape of Good Hope, as I have an only brother Lieut. John DEVENISH settled in that colony some years, and am myself an orphan and will be totally destitute on the widow of Lieut. STRETCH embarking on the 7th inst for the Cape, unless you my Lord will take my case into your gracious consideration by humanely ordering me a passage in the same ship with the widow STRETCH, who was recommended to your Lordship by General BOURTH, now on passage to that Colony. I have the honor to be my Lord with the highest sentiments of respect

Your Lordship’s obd’t humble servant

Sarah DEVENISH

 

FRANCIS, W.D. re Thomas Price ADAMS

 

159

Secretary’s Office

Auction Mart

Bartholomew lane

17 Jan’y 1826

Sir,

            On the 29th November 1819 Mr. Thomas Price ADAMS with his family, in Mr. BAILIE’s party, sailed on board the Chapman for the Cape. He is now living at Mount Adams, Fish River, Albany, South Africa upon a Government grant of land. A son of his, 16 years of age, is awaiting a passage to his father. Will Government grant him that? Or contribute towards the expence? An answer will be esteemed a favour upon, Sir

Your obed’t humble serv’t

W.D. FRANCIS

 

[note across foot]

This cannot be complied with. Lord BATHURST has not felt at liberty to comply with an application which has been lately made to him by a large body of the Cape settlers for transporting their wives & families to the Colony.

 

HEATH, W.J.

 

197

Woolwich

1st Nov 1826

Sir,

            In June last I applied to His Honor the Lieutenant Governor for leave of absence to proceed from the Cape to England on my private affairs, which leave was granted by His Honor the Lieutenant Governor for six months.

            On arrival in England (according to my instructions) I reported myself to you, but finding it impossible to arrange my affairs in England and to return to the Cape in that time, I am under the necessity of applying to you for an extension of leave for three months.

            Should this request meet with your approval it will greatly oblige me. I have the honor to be Sir

Your most obedient servant

W.J. HEATH

 

[On reverse: Should be granted]

 

McCLELAND, Francis

 

260

Port Elizabeth

9th Jan’y 1826

My Lord,

            I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of a letter from the Colonial Office to which I respectfully solicit your Lordship’s kind attention.

            During five years and upwards that I have been in the Colony I have to all intents and purposes acted as a District Clergyman, and though in every other district the clergy are allowed a house and garden I have been excepted from the general rule; and this after paying six or seven hundred dollars annually out of two thousand for house rent, placed as to emolument on an equality with the lowest mechanic.

            I beg moreover to apprize your Lordship that divine service according to the English Ritual is performed by me (I believe exclusively) in the Dutch language to the old inhabitants, and yet though my duty is twofold my allowance is not equal to half what my Brethren of the Established Church receive. I almost feel assured that were my case properly represented your Lordship would not only allow me a house but raise my salary and compensate me for the time that is past.

            In my present circumstances I cannot long continue. I am involved in debt, and with an increasing family have nothing to look to but your Lordship’s justice. There is a farm named “Gora” in the District of Uitenhage at present unappropriated, and if your Lordship would have the goodness to advise my getting a grant of it or of some other ground in this neighbourhood, it might serve to relieve my difficulties and enable me to do something for my children.

            I cannot suffer the present opportunity to pass without impressing on your Lordship the detriment likely to accrue to the Established Church in this Colony by reason of there not being any person here qualified to confirm the members of that communion when they arrive to years of discretion. This is a serious evil, and is hourly increasing, and merits the grave consideration of every friend of the Establishment.

I have the honor to be

Your Lordship’s most obed’t humble serv’t

F. McCLELAND

 

[Note across second page: What the emoluments of this chaplain’s situation as compared with others?

 

[Enclosed letter addressed to the Chaplain at Port Elizabeth]

Colonial Office

29th Dec 1825

Sir,

            In reply to your letter of the 13th inst soliciting to be placed on the same footing with the District Clergymen by being allowed a Parsonage House, I am directed by His Excellency the Governor to acquaint you that he will submit your request to Earl BATHURST.

I have the honor to be Sir

Your obedient servant

Rich’d PLASKET

Sec’y to the Gov’r.

 

279

Port Elizabeth

August 8 1826

My Lord,

            I had the honor in the month of January last to call your Lordship’s mention to the serious injury likely to accrue to the Established Church of England in this Colony in consequence of its young members being unable to have themselves confirmed.

            The last advices from India have brought the melancholy news of the death of the Lord Bishop of Calcutta, and I am induced very respectfully to suggest to your Lordship the propriety of recommending his successor to touch at this Colony on his passage to India for the purpose of administering the rite of confirmation to such persons as his Lordship should find qualified.

            As a clergyman of the Church of England I hope your Lordship will excuse the liberty I take in acquainting you that the Church of this Parish after being raised about fourteen feet above the foundations is likely to be at a stand for want of funds. Unless we obtain assistance from home the work it is to be feared will be abandoned, but in the hope that your Lordship will interfere to prevent so deplorable an event I have presumed to submit the case to your kind consideration.

I have the honor to be, my Lord

Your Lordship’s most obed’t humble serv’t

F. McCLELAND

Chaplain

 

[note at foot of page: this ought to have been done? Thro’ the Governor a recommendation to be made to the India Board on the subject of the suggestion for supplying the means of confirmation.

 

Memorial re William HOWARD

 

200

Graham’s Town

Cape of Good Hope

1st March 1826

We the undersigned, inhabitants of Albany, having heard that William HOWARD, School Master of one of the free schools at Graham’s Town, has prepared and is about to transmit to England a Memorial or Petition to the House of Commons, in Parliament assembled, wherein he has made the most unwarrantable insinuations, tending to indicate criminally the conduct and scandalize the character of several of the authorities and others in this District, and that he has in order to give the appearance of weight and authority to the said Memorial or Petition insidiously obtained the signatures of a number of persons, which are to form an application thereto; and conceiving that should such a document be laid before the Parliament of Great Britain without observation or contradiction that it might have the effect of creating an unfavourable impression on the minds of His Majesty’s Ministers and the Public towards those whom we consider undeserving the stigma which he is endeavouring by these means to cast upon them,

Do hereby certify in order to counteract its mischievous tendency that in our opinion the said William HOWARD has always been an active fomenter of litigious disputes amongst the British Settlers and that it is our decided conviction that the document alluded to is a tissue of falsehood and misrepresentation, and therefore quite unworthy of the serious consideration of the British House of Commons.

[Actual signatures]

Robt HENMAN

Henry LLOYD

Timothy FLANEGAN

William BEALE Merchant

John NORTON Merchant

Will’m E. SMITH Merchant

James WARD

[F.McCLELAND?]

[Enefer?] GREEN Merchant

J. STUBBS

Benj. NORDEN

John MANDY Head of Party

John BATHGATE

Richard HAYHURST Head of Party

[F. FYNN?] Jun.

Frederick HAWKES

Wm. STEVENS

John McKENNY

James FITZGERALD

Ralph GODDARD

Joseph GOODES

John BROWN Head of Party

W. WENTWORTH

[illegible signature]

John CRICHTON

G.F. STOKES

John [FRAZER?]

John NELAND X

James LANCE

G.J. WATSON

[G.B. CURLLE?]

Nath’l MORGAN Head of Party Asst Surgeon Half Pay

Philip DIXIE

Wm. BEAR

John WILSON

Charls MARSHEL X

William ROBERTS

Thos. MILLER

D. HOLLAND

Jas. MOORCRAFT

J. [RICHARDS?]

John BEALE

Rd. EDKINS

Robert PIRIE

Wm. TROTTER

 

226

On this 31st Day of October 1825 I the undersigned Messenger of Albany have repaired to and in the presence of William HOWARD only summoned him to appear before the Board of Landdrost and Heemraaden in Albany of Thursday 3rd November nigh at 9 o clock in the morning, and received as answer

“I shall defend it; as I consider it an unjust Bill”

Chas. LUCAS

 

[Note at top from Wm. HOWARD]

The date of this is incorrect. It was Saturday 29th October instead of the 31st as under written.

Wm. HOWARD

 

[Note at foot of page in HOWARD’s hand]

The Messenger done me great injustice by recording the above answer. The answer returned to him by me, W.H. was “Tell Mr. CLOETE that although I consider the (enclosed) Bill an unjust one, yet rather than offend the Local authorities I will pay it if they will give me a little time, as I have several just debts which I wish to discharge first.” and the Messenger was particularly cautioned to deliver the answer in my very words and he said he would, but no mercy was shown for me and I was obliged to pay the amount under great disadvantages or my property must have been sold.

Wm. HOWARD

A persecuted man

Did not know this answer until the Bill was paid.

 

MULHOLLAN, Adam

 

268

Baltinglas

30th March 1826

Sir,

            Having perused a letter from Mr. SHEPHERD, No.59 Lower East Smithfield, stating that Government has agreed to bear the whole of the expences of the families emigrating with him to the Cape of Good Hope on condition that they will reimburse the Government at the Settlement one half of the expence in a limitted time, and each family to send him three pounds for incidental expences.

            Be pleased to have the goodness to use your influence in procuring permission for me and a few of my relatives to emigrate with Mr. SHEPHERD on the same conditions. And you will for ever oblige

Your most obed’t humble servant

Adam MULHOLLAN

 

270

Baltinglas, Ireland

22nd April 1826

Sir,

            I beg leave to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 6th instant and with astonishment I perused its contents; as I never addressed a letter to Earl BATHURST on the 30th ultimo and of course am ignorant of its contents.

            The last time I had the honor of addressing his Lordship was on the 26th April 1825 relative to myself and a numerous train of my friends (mostly all young men) praying to participate in an emigration to British America and to which his Lordship was graciously pleased to reply (through Mr.HORTON’s letter of the 5th May following) “to address myself to Mr. ROBINSON at Cork”. I accordingly applied to that gentleman but received no answer from, I suppose, his having sailed previous to the arrival of my letter at that port.

            I beg further to state that my first application (accompanied with strong recommendations) was made to the Government of this Country and from Mr. GREGORY’s letter of the 12th April 1825 was referred to his Lordship Earl BATHURST.

            May I therefore request that you, Sir, will be pleased to lay before his Lordship this statement, as also my determination still to proceed to that Colony, should his Lordship in his wonted goodness allow me, with my former mentioned friends, and in addition a number of young men destitute of employment from the pressure of the times. If required the most satisfactory references as to character, ability &c can be adduced. Your compliance with the above will oblige, Sir

Your most obedient humble servant

Adam MULHOLLAN

 

272

Baltinglas, Ireland

30th April 1826

Sir,

            I beg leave to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 27th instant in answer to mine of the 22nd relative to a letter wrote on the 6th inst by an Adam MULHOLLAN of this Town on the subject of emigration to the Cape of Good Hope and expect you will be pleased to acquaint Earl BATHURST that the person who wrote the letter was one of the numerous train of my friends who were to accompany me to British America should the grant of emigration be made to me by his Lordship and which I trust will ere long.

            I beg further to add that the above named Adam MULHOLLAN was in Dublin some time back when he got acquainted with a Mr. SHEPPARD who incited him to write the letter in question. My not being in the immediate vicinity of the town prevented him (he says) of informing me on the subject and on the whole may be imputed to youth and inconsiderateness.

            My only request is that his Lordship in his wonted goodness will be graciously pleased when an emigration takes place to admit me and mine to participate in it, and trusting he will excuse my importunity I presume to subscribe myself, Sir

Your obliged, obedient and very humble servant

Adam MULHOLLAN

 

[Transcriber’s Note: The handwriting is extremely similar in the letters from the two Adam MULHOLLANs. It is probable that they were father and son. CO48/44 (1819 correspondence) includes this extract from a memorial from Adam MULHOLLAN:

The Memorial of Adam MULHOLLAN, late a Permanent Serjeant in the Baltinglass Yeomans Cavalry, commanded by the Honble Captain STRATFORD
Humbly Sheweth,
That your Lordships Memorialist is induced to supplicate you in behalf of himself, his seven sons
and their Families, comprising in the whole 28 persons to grant him, and them, a free passage to the Cape of Good Hope.]

 

PEARSON re David PONTARDENT

 

311

Serjeants Inn

Temple

3 July 1826

Sir,

            At the request of the family of a gentleman who died at the Cape of Good Hope, I take the liberty of representing to you the necessity they are under of soliciting the aid & protection of Government in the situation in which they stand with respect to property of which, from various sources of information, they are led to supposed he died possessed; & to which they have become entitled by his decease.

            Their father, Mr. David PONTARDENT, went to the Cape about the year 1806 & continued to reside there till his death in May 1825; &, it has been understood, he was officially connected with the Court of Admin[istration] there. Mr. PONTARDENT left his wife and family in England under the protection of her friends (who are highly respectable) communicating with them not very frequently & never upon pecuniary concerns. They are therefore almost entirely uninformed [respecting] them except from vague & unconnected sources, being led to suppose that he left property of an amount not inconsiderable: but in whose hands [or] of what nature, or in what situation,  there is no information whatever transmitted by an one connected with his affairs.

            Under these circumstances they are advised to entreat the intervention & protection of Government, humbly requesting that inquiry may be directed to ascertain whether he has left a will or how his affairs have been administered.

            Mrs. PONTARDENT died before her husband. I address you merely as a friend of their family, not professionally. If from this there should appear to be any deficiency, either in the statement of the case, or want of regular authority, if I may request the favor of intimation of it, I will endeavour to supply whatever may be further needful.

I have the honor to be Sir

Your most obed’t hbl serv’t

J. PEARSON    

 

PEDDER, George Murray

 

297

Post Office

Table Bay

Feb 10 1826

My Lord,

            In pointing out to your Lordship my peculiar distressing situation I hope not to be deemed presumptuous.

            In the year 1818 I arrived in this Colony and established a Whale Fishery, embarking a capital of five thousand pounds sterling, all that I had hardly gained during the war, the whole of which property with my eldest son was destroyed by fire, done intentionally by the hands of two slaves. This event left me with a wife and four very young children in a perfect state of destitution, my half pay being involved in my misfortunes. The anxious feeling which has continued to mark the Government of this Colony that the afflicted and unfortunate may share its protection prompted me to solicit His Excellency Lord Charles SOMERSET’s patronage for the appointment of deputy Port Captain. My destitute circumstances joined to my being so old an officer [that] the conviction His Lordship felt of its being necessary for the general good of the shipping interest of this Colony to place an experienced & active officer in the situation were reasons that induced His Excellency to honor me with the appointment.

            I beg leave to sate I was from the year 1799 until the peace in active service afloat and had the honor of serving under the lamented Lord NELSON in the action of the 2nd April 1801 & in the action with the enemy on the coast of France under the orders of Sir Sidney {SMITH] afterwards with Captain Peter RAINER in culling out the Dutch frigate (Maria Regensberger) afterwards HMS [Java?] In the action Capt P. RAINER honored me by public mention of my name in the official dispatches to the Admiralty. My misfortunes from fire have destroyed the means I had of reference except the two enclosed certificates. I can however with confidence refer your Lordship to Sir J. BRENTON Bart, who will not only confirm my assertions but satisfy your Lordship as to my competency to fill my present station, with justice to the public.

            His Excellency has been pleased to say he will honor me with a letter of recommendation to your Lordship. I beg leave to state the different ships I have served on  .

 

Station

Ships

Commanders

Channel

Achille

Capt. G. MURRAY

North Sea

Edgar

Do

Channel

London

Do

North Sea & Mediterranean

Penelope

W.R. BROUGHTON

India

Blenheim

Rear Admiral Sir Thomas STRAWBRIDGE

India & China Seas

Caroline

Peter RAINER

North Sea

Ganges

Geo. DUNDAS

Mediterranean

Argo

F. WARREN

Cape of Good Hope & America

Niemen

Sl. PYMM

 

            I humbly hope your Lordship may be pleased to take into consideration my long service and to confirm my present appointment.

I have the honor to remain

Your Lordship’s obedient servant

Lieut.R.N. G.M. PEDDER

 

301

This is to certify that Lieut. George Murray PEDDER served during the war in four different ships under the same commander as myself and that he was considered a zealous and attentive officer and a good seaman  and I have reason to believe he is well qualified to fill any situation where nautical skill is required.

Given under my hand on board HMS Martin, Simon’s Bay

January 31st 1826

Thomas WILSON Captain

 

302

This is to certify that Lieut. G.M. PEDDER has served as Lieutenant in His Majesty’s ships since 1807 and has to my knowledge been considered a worthy and deserving officer, and must from the situations he has held be perfectly competent to undertake any employment where nautical knowledge is required.

Given under my hand in ?? Bay this 28th day of January 1826

[illegible signature]

 

RICHARDSON, J

 

330

Cape of Good Hope

10th January 1826

Sir,

            I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th Oct 1825 relative to a claim made on me by the Revd J. SMITH for the board & education of my children, accompanied with a threat held out by that Rev’d gentleman that he would send the children to the Work House.

            In reply I beg you will convey to the Right Honorable Earl BATHURST sincere thanks for the very considerate & humane manner His Lordship has viewed the subject. I shall ever feel sensible of the great obligation, nor am I deficient in parental & other proper feelings as regards the circumstances of the case, at the same time I cannot suppress the feelings of contempt I hold the conduct of Mr SMITH in, his having so misrepresented facts & keeping me in the dark as to his situation, & thereby preventing me taking the measures for the removal of the children long ago; his liberal idea of sending to the work house children far distant from their friends, entrusted to his charge, I should have supposed would have been repugnant to the feelings of any person possessing the least Christian [belief?] or charitable principle.

            If he could not conduct his Academy he should have placed the children under the care of his son or some competent person & lost no time in informing me the measures he had adopted. I regret much this not having been the case for no doubt they must have been sadly neglected for a length of time. I shall immediately take measures to remove them from the charge & tuition of a person of Mr. SMITH’s character, who appears so little deserving of such trust & confidence.

            I cannot but observe I am not a little surprised at Mr. SMITH having presumed to trouble his Lordship with my private affairs without at least failing in his application to myself, misstate facts, withhold information & endeavour to blacken & vilify in the eyes of His Majesty’s confidential Minister a person who had the honor to serve his Sovereign in a distant colony & unhealthy climate almost twenty years with fidelity & credit to himself & where he held for years one of the most trusty & most confidential situations under the Ceylon Government.

            I beg leave further to state that Mr. SMITH having become a bankrupt I have lately had an application for this claim from a Mr. R. JONES, merchant here, Agent for Mr. SMITH’s Assignees, to whom I am to pay the demand; as there is a difference in the amount (£50 paid by me not brought to my credit) Mr. JONES cannot finally settle it without reference to the assignees, but the other part of the account is so arranged to be paid here, which I shall punctually perform, therefore Mr. SMITH can have no manner of claim & doubtful if the sum now enclosed should not be received by the assignees.

            As his Lordship has guarantyed the payment of the half year I shall take care to remit the amount as soon as I know what it is, in part payment of which I now take the liberty to enclose a bill for £60, the amount of the account rendered & beg the favor of you to apply as you think best.

            As to the remark relative to my overdrawing in 1822, I beg to refer you to the letter to the agent for Ceylon, dated 21st Oct 1825, Cape of Good Hope, & to observe the pension for that year was paid as follows – first a draft for £200 & the £300 to my bankers Messrs T. COUTTS & Co on a power of attorney: being the balance of pension for 1822 by Mr. HUSKISSON under Mr. Sec’y LASIGH??’s letter dated the 17th December 1821.

            While on this subject I take this opportunity to mention, in my letter to the agent of Ceylon above alluded to I took the liberty to notice to him that my health was perfectly recovered during my stay here & that I should be most happy to avail myself of leave to return to the service & standing on Ceylon if permission should be granted me by Earl BATHURST & on my arrival on the island to refund all the sums once paid me as pension.

I have the honor to be Sir

Your most obed’t humble serv’t

J. RICHARDSON

 

SHEPHERD, William

 

362

No.6 Crown Court

February 1826

My Lord,

In reply to your Lordship’s favor of 9th inst in behalf of the families & children of certain settlers of the Cape of Good Hope in which your Lordship states that upon enquiry into the extent of the expence of their transport, the amount appears too great for your Lordship to hold out any hopes of its accomplishment, I can assure your Lordship the expence is in no way equal to the benefit that will result to the Colony, independent of the consideration of the feelings excited for the at present fatherless mothers & children and I beg to inform your Lordship that upon a minute enquiry which I have made among merchants & respectable brokers the amount will not exceed £5000, the accommodation and comforts to be according to the inclosed scale, which is a liberal one.

At the close of the communication the good feeling of your Lordship for the destitute has induced you to offer on the part of His Majesty’s Government to bear half the expence upon my giving security for the due performance of the other half to be paid by fixed instalments. This my Lord would place me in most difficult circumstances as I have but few heads of families to contract with and your Lordship is well aware I cannot make contracts binding with women and children whose husbands & fathers are at the settlement or on the relatives after the family has landed, and therefore I trust the liberality of Government will be further extended to defray the whole of the expence.

My Lord in behalf of myself allow me to say that, commiserating the situation of your petitioners and in consideration of the interests of my brother colonists, I have undertaken this cause and desire only the reimbursement of the expences I have already incurred & to be further incurred, and still sanguine in the ultimate prosperity of the Colony of Settlers in Albany, South Africa, sent under your Lordship’s patronage, of which your humble servant was one, I shall with pleasure return amongst them, and remain

Your Lordship’s most obedient humble servant

Wm. SHEPHERD

 

[Attached]

Estimate of the expence for conveying from London to Algoa Bay from thence to Grahams Town Cape of Good Hope 285 persons rationed as 200 adults.

 

To hire of ship 500 tons & £4/10 per ton

£2250

To tender building of bed cabins, water closets &c

£150

To provisions for 200 adults for a passage of 120 days & 1/2 per day

£1291:13:11

Water casks for the voyage 700 tons

£220

To bedding for 200 persons

£132:10

To surgeon for 6 months, his mess with the captain, medicine & herbs &c

£120

Medical comforts, pork?, bread, soups, preserved meats &c for the sick and children

£100

Coals, candles &c

£20

 

£4284:3:11

Expence of landing at Algoa Bay

£100

Expence of conveyance up the country a distance of 100 miles

£500

 

£4884:3:11

My expences as superintendent

 

 

Having observed in my former passage out that the morals of the single females were much corrupted by a promiscuous placing of them too near the males, an additional allowance is here made to separate them as there will be a greater proportion of females. This calculation is made on a liberal scale after the under stated allowance

 

Scale of Rations for One Week

 

 

Days

 

Bread

lb

 

 

Beef lb

 

Pork lb

 

Flour lb

Plums or Suet

oz

 

Tea oz

 

Sugar

oz

 

Spirits Gill

Butter or Cheese lb

 

Oatmeal Pint

 

Vinegar Pint

 

Pease Pint

 

Cocoa oz

Monday

B

1

-

-

-

¼

1 ½

1

-

-

-

-

B

Tuesday

B

-

¾

-

-

¼

1 ½

1

-

-

-

2

B

Wednesday

B

1

-

¾

2

¼

1 ½

1

-

-

-

-

B

Thursday

B

1

-

-

-

¼

1 ½

1

-

-

-

-

B

Friday

B

-

¾

-

2

¼

1 ½

1

-

-

-

2

B

Saturday

B

1

-

-

-

¼

1 ½

1

-

-

-

-

B

Sunday

B

-

¾

¾

2

¼

1 ½

1

½

½

2

-

B

 

366

No.6 Crown Court

Broad Street

20th February 1826

Sir,

            In reply to your letter of the 8th inst I beg to observe that the settlers at Grahams Town Cape of Good Hope who had expected me to apply to Lord BATHURST for conveyance of their wives & families thither had no idea that they would be required by His Majesty’s Government to defray any part of the expence of their conveyance and although the Colony is in a flourishing condition, yet the settlers have not so far recovered from the difficulties they experienced on their first going out as to be able (at least for some time to come) to advance any considerable sum of money & as they had reason to believe that if they had taken their wives & children with them in the first instance His Majesty’s Government would have provided conveyance for them in common with other wives & children who actually did go at that time they imagined there would be no objection to their being now sent out to them now as they consider they are able to support them when arrived there. I trust his Lordship will give directions that as far as relates to the actual wives and families a passage may be granted them, that the settlers who now make this request may not be placed in a worse situation than those who took their wives & families with them. And with regard to the other persons memorialised who are more distant relatives of the settlers there, I trust his Lordship will be pleased to bear a considerable proportion of the expence & to signify the [obscured] amount or portion His Majesty’s Government will do for them as these persons by increasing the British population at the Cape are creating a balance with the Dutch, who are as yet the most numerous, and I am willing to undertake the collecting the sum to be reimbursed should it meet the approbation of His Lordship. I should hope His Majesty’s Government would be the more inclined to send to a colony where females are so much needed, and I have further to beg that you will be pleased to signify the nature of the [obscured] required for the remainder of the expence, and I am ready to get any document signed by [any] individual for I am not able to obtain security of the parties in the Colony who [obscured] me without too great a loss of time & expence. I also beg to know the period within which His Lordship will require the reimbursement to be made. In the mean time I beg to [assure] his Lordship none of these your petitioners are settlers that have gone out on their own account but are of the number sent out by His Majesty’s Government in the year 1819 & 1820 & I have no hesitation in saying they will feel glad to satisfy the government as far as in their power for the sake of that feeling of content & happiness which results from having our families & relatives around us.

I have the honor to be Sir

Your most obedient humble servant

Wm. SHEPHERD

 

[Colonial Office note across corner]

What was the arrangement made for the conveyance of the wives and families of those who went out to the Cape in ____ and what were the regulations adopted on that occasion?

 

368

[Received March 2nd 1826]

Sir,

            I received your communication of the 27th and beg the favour of an interview when most convenient, as to several of the communications made and the security I am prepared to give too long for the subject of a letter.

I am Sir your most obedient servant

Wm. SHEPHERD

 

370

No.6 Crown Court

Broad Street

3rd March 1826

Sir,

           

            I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th ult. In reply I feel bound to admit the justice of your remarks as to the propriety of my having come to this country prepared with some offer on the part of the settlers for the repayment of the expence to be incurred provided these settlers had been in a capacity to have made such a proposition, but they considered that their recent hopes & contracted means (wch every one acquainted with the colony must acknowledge are great) would be a sufficient inducement to His Majesty’s Government to grant the prayer of your petitioners; considering also the want of servants in the colony together with the small number of females making it highly necessary in a moral point of view that more females should be sent out; joined to the political benefit to be derived from putting the British population more on a par with the Dutch, all these considerations your petitioners thought would have sufficient weight with his Lordship in granting their request. However, should my Lord BATHURST still require a security I beg to repeat that I am ready to get the signatures of each individual now desirous of proceeding with me to any undertaking his Lordship may think fit. Or should that not be admitted, feeling as I do towards those whose cause I have undertaken I can give my personal bond for the repayment of half the expence of whatever may be advanced to me for the purpose of conveying out these persons, or that it may cost His Majesty’s Government to convey [them] provided my said bond may be allowed to be redeemed on producing the engagement of the settlers who deputed me, for their respective families, which engagement I will procure as soon as possible and exchange for my own bond, and in default of my doing so to the satisfaction of the Colonial Government my own [bond] is to stand in force against me so long as it is not cancelled by the Settlers Bond or Bonds which I may give in

I am Sir your most obedient servant

Wm. SHEPHERD

 

373

No.6 Crown Court

Old Broad Street

April 14th 1826

Sir,

            In reply to your favour of the 12 inst I beg to state that no person of the name of J. WILSON has applied to me for a passage neither am I aware of any one person being brought to town by any letter that I have written, as I have invariably stated to each the offer of the Government and desired them to write an answer if they wished to go and could meet the expence and I am positive the assertion of they have come a great distance with their families is a false one.

            I thought it necessary that each person should pay a small deposit of from 10s to 20s on the insertion of their names as an assurance of their intention. This has been done by those who could afford it, that I might not possess a long list of nominal names, at the same time it was distinctly stated to them it should be returned if no arrangements took place with His Majesty’s Government.

            With respect to the deposits of money I beg to state Sir it is a malicious insinuation calculated to make an impression on your mind that I am taking sums of money from the poor to their great inconvenience. That the principal part of them are poor I have sufficient evidence but I abhor the thought of distressing them in any way as my only wish is to serve them, to do which I have incurred considerable expence.

            There is a person whose name is Wm. WATSON who has deposited 10/- but whose residence is in town. This is the only name I have like it.

I am Sir your most obedient servant

Wm. SHEPHERD

 

[Colonial Office note]

Let the party who complains of Mr. SHEPHERD to be called upon to explain what he means by making statements which are not founded in truth & recommend to Mr. SHEPHERD not to exact any sum of money whatever from those he addresses on the subject of conveyance to the Cape or to bring anyone to London untill his scheme is more matured. Remind Mr. S that he has taken no steps for providing the security as was pointed out to him was necessary to be given.

 

375

Crown Court

Old Broad Street

April 20th 1826

Sir,

            I have to acknowledge receipt of yours of 18th ultimo and in reference to the security mentioned beg to state I am prepared with any security his Lordship may require, provided the nature of that security is expedient and safe for me to give, and I hope his Lordship will be as favourable as possible as to that required as my only wish is to serve the colony, and destitute, and unemployed to the extent his Lordship shall enable me.

            I beg also to remark that I am proceeding agreeable to his Lordships directions in your letter of the 10th ultimo to obtain a list of those persons wishing to proceed with me that the expence may be accurately ascertained, with a view to inform each individual the sum required to reimburse His Majesty’s Government one half the expence to be incurred. That list will be closed in a short time and shall immediately transmit them to the Colonial Office.

I am Sir your most obedient servant

Wm. SHEPHERD

 

377

Crown Court

Old Broad Street

April 30th 1826

Sir,

            I beg to inclose the lists of the names of those persons wishing to proceed with me to their parents, husbands &c at Grahams Town Cape of Good Hope, agreeable to Earl BATHURST’s letter of the 10th inst and request you will be pleased to direct the solicitor of the Treasury to favour me with the terms of security his Lordship wishes me to give.

I am Sir your most obedient servant

Wm. SHEPHERD

 

Names of Persons, Relatives of Settlers, with their Families desirous of proceeding to Grahams Town South Africa under the patronage of His Majesty’s Government

 

To whom Related

Names of Families

Age

Sons

Age

Daughters

Age

D. ROBERTS

John PASKIN

41

John

21

 

 

 

Wife Elizabeth

38

 

 

 

 

W. SHEPHERD

Henry YARRINGTON

30

 

 

 

 

 

Wife Charlotte

28

 

 

 

 

C. CROFT

George FURBY

52

George

22

Charlotte

14

 

Wife Jane

52

Benjamin

9

Elizabeth

10

J. HOWE

Francis CATO

34

George

12

 

 

 

Wife Jane

32

Joseph

12

 

 

 

 

 

Henry

4

 

 

 

 

 

Orlando

1½

 

 

J. PARKIN

Will’m PARKIN

44

William

20

Charlotte

16

 

 

 

Isack

11

Sarah

14

 

 

 

John

10

Elizabeth

12

H. CROWLEY

Elizabeth CROWLEY

50

 

 

Margaret

30

 

 

 

Thomas

7

Mary Ann

13

J. CROWLEY

Ann CROWLEY

26

John

12

Eliza

14

 

 

 

 

 

Catharine

6

 

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth

4

J. BIGGS

Mary Ann BIGGS

16

 

 

 

 

 

Harriott

14

 

 

 

 

J. PANKHURST

Thos. PANKHURST

30

Thomas

3

Ann

5

 

Wife Ann

28

 

 

Elizabeth

1

A. KIDWELL

Elinor KIDWELL

30

Charles

11

Eliza

7

 

Elizabeth OSBOURN

34

George

9

 

 

 

 

 

John Thomas

2

 

 

W. WATSON

Will’m WATSON

60

 

 

 

 

 

Wife Sarah

56

 

 

 

 

G. GATEHOUSE

Mary GATEHOUSE

34

Francis

8

Sarah

16

 

Elizabeth BROWN

45

George

14

Mary Ann

10

C. HYMAN

Elizabeth WOOD

14

 

 

 

 

D. LEWIS

John LEWIS

14

 

 

 

 

J. LEANY

Ann LEANY

35

 

 

 

 

J. O’DONNELL

Ellin O’DONALD

22

 

 

 

 

 

Jane O’DONALD

18

 

 

 

 

C. GRUBB

Sarah GRUBB

22

 

 

 

 

C. SLATER

Sarah SLATER

23

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Ann HALL

6

 

 

 

 

R. PICKSTOCK

Thos DOWLAN

29

 

 

Mary

10

 

Wife Ann

31

 

 

Amelia

3

 

Thos DOBSON

27

 

 

 

 

 

Wife Mary

29

John

1

 

 

D. GOLDEN

Mary GOLDEN

30

John

9

Mary

5

 

John STEARDEN

35

 

 

Margaret

4

 

Catharine GOLDEN

30

 

 

 

 

J. EVA

Samuel PASK

20

 

 

 

 

D. HOLLAND

Florence MACARTY

36

 

 

 

 

W. VERITY

Benjamin VERITY

25

 

 

 

 

Rd. NEWTON

William STARLING

18

 

 

 

 

 

Kezia STARLING

19

 

 

 

 

A. KIDWELL

James ATKINS

44

 

 

Caroline

18

 

Wife Fanny

44

 

 

Eliza

15

 

 

 

Samuel

8

Phebe

13

 

 

 

 

 

Jane

11

R. PITT

Wm. PITT

49

John

23

Sarah

22

 

Wife Mary

49

Thomas

7

Mary

2

 

 

 

John

½

 

 

 

 

 

William

13

 

 

 

 

 

James

10

 

 

J. THACKWRY

Crofts MAYER

47

Francis

24

Hannah

23

 

Wife Catharine

50

Joseph

18

Grace

19

 

 

 

David

29

Matilda

13

 

 

 

Francis

5

 

 

J. WYATT

Charles WYATT

43

William

11

 

 

 

Wife Francis

37

George

9

 

 

 

 

 

James

4

 

 

 

 

 

John

1

Mary Ann

7

A. HARPUR

Eliza BARNES

19

 

 

 

 

 

Rich’d HUMPHRIES

45

Stephen

12

 

 

 

Wife Ann

37

James

9

 

 

 

 

 

Joseph

6

 

 

R. ATTWELL

Wm. WELLS

37

William

7

 

 

 

Wife Mary Ann

31

Robert

5

 

 

 

 

 

Richard

3

 

 

S. BROWN

Nathan MORRIS

40

John

6

Jane

14

 

Wife Sarah

36

 

 

Sarah

4

J. ADAMS

Jane ADAMS

30

John

13

Mary

16

 

 

 

William

8

Jane

14