CO48/43 National Archives, Kew, London ~ 1820 Settler Correspondence E-H

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.

Names in red actually became 1820 settlers to South Africa, as listed in ‘The Settler Handbook’ by M.D. Nash, not necessarily with the Party listed here.

EAMES, William

Pittimoor near Sheffield

August 5th, 1819

May it please your Lordship,

Having been informed that Government proposes to encourage emigration to the Cape of Good Hope, I take this opportunity of offering and petitioning your Lordship to accept of myself and family which consists of the following persons viz

myself - William EAMES - 47 years

my wife - Sarah EAMES - 40 years

a son - Joseph - 22 years

do - William - 20 years

do - John - 14 years

do - Edward -12 years

do - Thomas - 6 years

a daughter - Ann -19 years

do - Elizabeth -18 years

do - Mary - 16 1/2 years

do - Eliza - 8 years

My present occupation is that of a brick maker but have been used to the making or cutting of canals, new roads, all kinds of farming and husbandry work. In such employment my children have been engaged under my directions.

I have it in my power to find the sum of Fifteen Pounds, and whatever more may be required and agreed upon am willing to liquidate it when fixed in the settlement by the [date] which may be appointed. I am at liberty to remove at any time your Lordship may appoint soon as the agreement and terms are settled upon.

If your Lordship will not think me too presuming I humbly request the favour of an early reply waiting which I remain with due respect

your Lordship's most obedient and very humble servant.

William EAMES

Brick maker

NB Pittimoor is a small village one mile from Sheffield on the road to Leeds.

EARLE, William (1)

[NB that this is not the 1820 settler William John EARLE of Willson’s Party, whose father was John EARLE of Winchester]

Cromwell Cottage

Old Brompton

Aug 31^st 1819

Sir,

I have done myself the honor of addressing a letter to the Right Honorable the Earl BATHURST tendering my proposals for 20 settlers at the Cape of Good Hope whereon I have freely detailed the terms I have made with the unfortunate individuals who seek that colony in the hopes of ameliorating their condition. I trust that I shall found to have made terms honourable to myself and to the Government which has wisely determined upon a measure promising the most extensive advantages as well to the colonists as the mother country. While I do myself the honor of addressing these few lines to you in furtherance of my design I am principally induced to press upon your attention the very serious importance of coming to an early decision that the parties who have made proposals may be in a situation to terminate the hopes or fears of the many destitute individuals crowding their lists.

There are many capitalists who assured of their proposals being accepted could and would have no objection in doing something to alleviate the present misery of them who are wholly without employment and who are buoyed with the hopes of emigration. It is painful to witness the anxiety of these wretched men, it is distressing their earnest importunities for relief. With regard to my own settlers, I shall be happy to do whatever is necessary consistent with [guidance] if I can learn from you that my proposals can and will be accepted. I also know not whether it is necessary in the first instance to send the deposit which is ready at any moment when I know how and where it is to be paid. Could I be made acquainted with these particulars through your medium, I shall feel it a great mark or your condescension and favour.

And have the honor to subscribe myself sir

Your most obed and obliged Hble servant

Wm EARLE Jnr.

Cromwell Cottage

Old Brompton

Sept 5th 1819

My Lord,

Conformable to the government circular issued under your directions, I take the liberty of transmitting to you the enclosed volunteering to locate with me at my expense at the proposed settlement at the colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

While I can safely calculate upon the industry of these people I may confidently introduce them to your Lordship’s notice as persons fully deserving of protection inasmuch as their necessities cannot be exceeded and that those necessities are solely the result of the pressure of the times. A pressure produced alone by the unlimited use of mechanical inventions superseding manual labor.

Unwilling to have my name associated with those adventurers who are now making contracts with the unfortunate at once arbitrary oppressive and contrary to the views and intentions of the government. I beg leave to lay before you the substance of my agreement with these individuals as the best security I can afford for the fulfilment of the government’s wishes in the establishment of a peaceable and happy colony.

First. I propose to well and sufficiently cloath them previous to embarkation.

Secondly. To victual them from the period of their landing and to provide them with every necessary for a period of three years.

Thirdly. To provide them with tents until such time that cottages can be erected for their accommodation.

Fourthly. To apportion off to each of them a piece of land in proportion to the extent of their families which they are to cultivate to their own exclusive profit after having devoted 8 hours in each day to my service.

Fifthly. At the expiration of three years when their service expires to assign to them a proportion of the 100 acres with a cottage &c &c

By these means I hope to make a comfortable and a happy peasantry of those persons who seek the colony as a remedy to the evils resulting from an overgrown population at home and I think I may confidently predict that loyalty and affection for the mother country and its government will be the result of my efforts. A stake in the ground is the rallying post of loyalty, and I feel convinced that it becomes important in the government to resist the application of capitalists settling at the Cape who will not subscribe to some such regulation in order to the encouragement of industry and to the accomplishment of consequent independance.

Upon these terms, My Lord, I solicit the priviledge of taking out 20 families to the Cape and I earnestly request that I may learn from your Lordship the very earliest opportunity whether my proposals are acceded to or not. In charity I ask it to the forlorn individuals who seek this step as their only refuge from calamities which already overwhelm them.

The lateness of the period of sending in this proposal I also feel bound to explain. It arises from having connected myself in this pursuit with Ensign John GORDON on the retired list 2^nd R.V.B. who sent in his tender for 100 families on the 7^th day of August. I also think it is right to state in explanation of myself that I have the honor of being known to the Rt Hon the Earl of YARMOUTH, that the Rt Hon the Lord Viscount CASTLEREAGH knows my family being the son of Mr W. EARLE of Albemarle Street, bookseller.

I have the honor to be your Lordship’s most obed servant

W. EARLE Jun.

A Return of the Heads of Familes with their description, age, profession &c who have volunteered to emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope subject to the government conditions under the direction and in the service of Mr William EARLE Cromwell Cottage Old Brompton County of Middlesex

From William EARLE Jun

No	Name	Age	Wife’s Age	Children	Ages	Total	Profession
1	Robert BREAD	35				1	Laborer
2	Thomas TIMPSON	22	22	1	7mo	3	Farmer
3	William ROWLEY	33				1	Carpenter
4	John RICE	37				1	Laborer
5	David MURRAY	34	32	2	8/4	3	Blacksmith
6	James DALLAWAY	33				1	Laborer
7	Thomas WRIGHT	35	33	1	6	3	Blacksmith
8	Alexander MANSON	34				1	Farmer
9	Micahel McCARTHY	24				1	Shoemaker
10	Richard ORMSBY	23				1	Laborer
11	D. HURLEY	35	30	2	8/6	4	Stone mason
12	William CONOLLY	30	36			2	Laborer
13	Denis KELLY	26				1	Laborer
14	John HALL	31				1	Sawyer
15	Chales LEACH	39				1	Laborer
16	John CROMWELL	25				1	Laborer
17	Peter HILLYER	32	34	3	2/3/5	5	Farmer
18	William BUTTON	23	17	1	6mo	3	Laborer
19	Thomas DONAVON	30	34			2	Laborer
20	Thomas RENTIN	25	29	2	2/6	4	Bricklayer
	TOTAL	20	9	12		41

EARLE, William (2) (re HAYHURST’s Party)

Liverpool November 18^th 1819

Sir,

At the suggestion of Mr GLADSTONE, who has kindly permitted me to make use of his name, I take the liberty of writing to you on the subject of settlers who are making preparations to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope.

Several of them are from the neighbourhood of Padiham where a relation of mine resides, who is desirous of rendering them pecuniary assistance to enable them to emigrate – the persons, however, who have the collection of Government deposits in this place, carry on so illiterate a correspondence with the poor people in the Country, that my relation questioned the propriety of remitting any money to them, without making previous enquiry respecting them. He commissioned me to do this and I found them in a situation that I deemed it right to recommend him [not?] to pay the deposits to them. One of them named WHITLEY told me that he had had the honour of [meeting?] with you. I do not know him as he has not generally resided in Liverpool. His partner, however, was a bankrupt but a short time ago and from the manner in which he then conducted himself gave sufficient [obscured] of its not being prudent to trust him with the property of others.

It is regrettable that some respectable Bankers are not appointed to receive the Government Deposits. The country people are extremely credulous and we had an instance two or three years ago of a man decamping with a considerable sum of money collected from a number of poor individuals under the pretence of sending them out to North America. I am told by Mr. WHITLEY that Mr. Arthur HILL of the Colonial Department is the Gentleman to whom he is directed to send the deposits he may collect. I have received from my relation deposits on account of the Padiham Emigrants, who are in the WHITLEY’s list and who have been accepted by Government. The immediate object of my letter is to request the favor of you to inform me whether I shall be correct in transmitting the sum direct to Mr. HILL, the money having been placed in my hands for the security of the poor Emigrants. I am of course anxious to know that it will be properly applied before I part with it, and the nature of the business will I trust appear a sufficient apology for my having thus intruded upon your time.

Mr. GLADSTONE desired me to add that he should feel obliged to you if you could inform him whether any of the Emigrants will be embarked from this place. I presume it is the intention of Government to send some of them from hence, as a large East India vessel at present under the care of my [house?] here is engaged for that purpose.

I have the honour to be with much respect your most obedient humble servant

William EARLE

[NB The partner of Michael WHITLEY referred to was Richard HAYHURST – see Nash page 79]

EASTON, Samuel

Dover

22nd November 1819

My Lord

I take the liberty of stating to your Lordship that I am by trade a house carpenter and wheel wright, professing at the same time a good general knowledge of every branch connected with the timber trade both in building and husbandry; therefore have no doubt I should be found particularly useful to the settlers proceeding to the Cape of good Hope where I am desirous of going, but having lately returned from the Continent where I have resided for some time past; I am sorry to say I arrived too late to join any of the parties going out this season.

I therefore beg to know if I may be permitted to proceed to that settlement with my son (a youth of 16 and upwards) at my own expense; subject at the same time to have the sum of £10..0.0 refunded to me at such time and under such regulations as those emigrating in parties with the permission of the Government? I beg further to state that I shall be ready to proceed on these conditions either with or without the customary grant of land.

I have the honor to remain my Lord

your Lordships most obedient very humble servant

Samuel EASTON

EATON, Edward

No. 7 Theobalds Road, Holborn

19th July 1819

Sir

Having seen an advertisement in the newspaper of yesterday, an official circular with respect to young persons emigrating to the Cape of Good Hope, I beg leave to make application, and provided it meets with approbation, I should feel particularly obliged if you would give me information in what way I am to proceed that I may get my request fulfilled.

I remain Sir your obliging

Edward EATON

EATON, William Loftie

9a Blackman St, Southwark

31st August 1819

Sir

Myself and brother are desirous of joining the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and will feel obliged by your informing us as early as possible the terms and conditions we are required to conform to, and how soon we shall be required to be in readiness.

I have the honor to be

Your very obt servt

W Loftie EATON

EDLESTON, Mrs. S

[Received 17 Aug 1819]

Monday evening

31 Castle Street

Leicester Square

Sir,

I should not trouble you on this subject but I do not see any clause in the circular letter concerning the settlers at the new colony which would prevent a widow with a large family from going out. My object in writing is to request you will if possible give me that information.

I am about thirty years of age and the eldest of my children eight next month and the younger two years next October. I am the widow of a gentleman lately in the office of the Agent general in Great George St, Westminster. Added to the number already mentioned my sister would wish to accompany me, she is younger.

My wish to go arises from the unfortunate state my husband left his family in which I find it quite impossible to maintain in this country and I have hope should I go to the new settlement I should be more successful. I shall consider myself very greatly obliged by an early answer to this letter as I do not like to make an application untill I know if I should be allowed to go out.

I am Sir

your most obedient

S. EDLESTON

EDMONDS, John

July 30, 1819

Sir,

I humbly beg pardon for being so bold in sending these few lines to solicit your goodness to inform me of intelligence concerning the Cape of Good Hope as I am a labouring man & out of employ and I am willing to work for my wife and two children has there is no employ at this time in London and I here that their is numbers going there for employment.

I am very willing to go providing I should meat your approbation. I will do the best of my endeavour to make myself useful in whatever capacity I am put under as I am a young man at the age of thirty six and my wife twenty six and my son is twenty months.

Please send me word as soon as possible and direct for me Britania Court, Britania Town, Lambeth

I conclude from your

Humble servant

John EDMONDS

EDMONDS, William

No. 20 Ebury Street

near the York Hospital

Chelsea

July 28, 1819

My lord,

Having seen an advertisement that your Lordship wants to engage with some familys to go as settlers to the Cape of Good Hope. I have a wife & two children my present situation not answering my expectation has no objections to go to the Cape, having been brought up to the locksmith, bell hanging and worked in every branch in the brass line.

The age of my family is

my age 32

wife age 31

first child 7

2nd child 4 years

If this meets with your Lordship's approbation please to send an answer with the engagements as soon as convenient having my business and some property to dispose off.

I am your lord's most humble servant

Wm. EDMONDS

EGAN, William

Charter School of Trim

Co. Meath, Ireland

12 Oct. 1819

My Lord,

Having for the last 12 years been master of Trim Charter School which School is now suppressed and having a wife and seven healthy children to provide for viz: three sons, well grown boys & four girls, I beg your Lordship's protection in enabling me to emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope with them. The boys are all able to assist in the farming line as I have reared them to habits of industry and their ages are 14, 15 and 16 years. I shall lodge the necessary deposit for each and also for three or four able men to come with me should I prove so fortunate as to meet your Lordship's approbation. My age is 38 years my wife 34 both thank God extremely healthy & most anxious for the settlement - I can bring £300 with me which will enable me to provide comfortably for them - my eldest son is a good classical scholar & I trust will turn out a loyal and good subject to his Majesty's government as that principle has been inculcated in my family from their birth.

With earnest solicitation for your Lordship's kind protection

I am, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient and very dutiful humble servant

William EGAN

Master of Trim Charter School

EGLINGTON, John

No. 12 Contentment Place

Turner Square

Hoxton Old Town

July 20th 1819

Sir,

Having applied at the Secretary of State’s office for information respecting the emigration of persons from England to the Cape of Good Hope, and being referred to you, I have taken the liberty to address you on the subject.

I am a young man, and have hitherto been employed in the printing business as compositor, but, from the later introduction of the steam engines and stereotype, the employment has so much decreased as not at present to furnish sufficient for much more than half of the persons now in the profession; under these circumstances, I have lately been endeavouring to find some way of ensuring a more certain livelihood, and seeing an account of the offer of Government to enable persons to settle at the Cape of Good Hope, I should be glad to be informed of the particulars and terms, that I might, if the plan should suit me, embrace it in order to provide for the future.

An answer directed as above will confer a particular obligation on Sir Your humble servant

John EGLINGTON

EILSE, George

[Received 28 July 1819]

Sir

i understand you have made apllakshun [application] for men to go to the Cape of Good hope i am a man that Wills to go i am a gardener by trade my age is 20 I am a singel man my residence is at No 4 North Row Clapham Surey

Sir I am your humbel servent

George EILSE

Clapham

ELDRED, William

Hall Staircase

Middle Temple

27 July 1819

My Lord,

I trust your Lordship will excuse my intrusion on your Lordship's attention, but being desirous of obtaining a law appointment in one of the colonies, I have taken the liberty of soliciting your Lordship to favour my views.

It is not consistent for me to choose either the colony or situation, but my Lord allow me to state that I should prefer either the East Indies (having some knowledge of the Bengalee language) the Cape of Good Hope or the projected settlement near there.

I beg to state that I have been in practice as an attorney and solicitor for 10 years and (should a reference be requisite) I feel confident that Mr Herbert BRACE of the Middle Temple to whom I served my clerkship and whose respectability is well-known to the present Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, Mr Thos. ABBOTT of the Terrace Inner Temple, the Revd. Dr WILLGRESS of Eltham, Kent or Mr Thos. HOUGH of Percy Street, Rathbone Place will give every satisfaction.

Permit me to add that my father has filled the office of Sub Treasurer to the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple for upwards of 30 years and is known to Sir W. SCOTT, Sir A. PIGGOTT, Mr [Serj’t] MAULEY and several other distinguished members of the profession.

I have the honour to subscribe myself

your Lordship's most obedient and very humble servant

Wm. ELDRED Jr.

ELLIOTT, John Frederick

22 Cloth Fair

West Smithfield

London

July 25^th 1819

Hon. Sir

Having considered the subject of the Govt Circular and feeling that the prospect of business in this Country will not answer my purpose, I judged that I could not employ the [remainder] of life better then by uniting with nine other heads of families who have the same feeling and possessing all the qualities necessary to form a colony acting in concert and reflecting honour and advantage upon England such being their character for temperance ability perseverance and all the other requisites which appear to me after ten years study of this subject necessary lead me to offer the Brittish Government every guarantee and you will oblige me by communicating as soon as possible the necessary information and instruction.

Names of settlers

two BROWNLOWs latly married	2	Farmers & Gardiners
ELLIOTT wife & 4 chilⁿ	1
FLAVIL wife & 2 chil	1
SMITHs 2 wives 4 chil	2
CLARK wife and 4 chil	1
EVERET do. 2 do	1	will Cultivate
HIMING single	1	will Cultivate
STANLY wife & 4 chil	1	Farmer
	10

I have the honour to subscribe myself

Honorable Sir

Your obedient Servant

J. ELLIOTT

22 Cloth Fair

London

July 30, 1819

Hon Sir

Some persons directed they said to me from your office being desirous to unite with me. I take the liberty of intruding again.

Permit me to state that I should be able to select some excellent colonists whose friends would make an effort to get them off and I should be happy to serve my Government & the Colony in that or any other way but could not positively engage until authorised with more than my ten because these altho respectable are distrest characters having only a hope honorably to escape ruin by colonising & persons without employ.

As my studies & manner of life lead me to a knowledge of men & as my labours during six days do not prevent my taking immense journeys of 60 or 70 miles chiefly on foot on the seventh for the good of them, I humbly hope I might be usefull at least by example & repeat that I am confident of the virtue of our party & that

I am Hon Sir

Yours obediently and devotedly

J. F. ELLIOTT

PS as every failure in colonisation is attributable to either want of means or intemperance especially on this continent I am happy in the confidence I have in the Brittish Government & that the situation chosen is the best & that we have both the will & the ability to cultivate & are rigidly temperate.

22 Cloth Fair

August 7, 1819

Hon Sir

In reply to your condescending favor of the 5th inst. I humbly state that my 20 colonists will make a seperate application. We therefore are in all eleven heads of families agreable to the intention of the first proposal & if as early as possible you will permit me to enter names, ages and numbers etc. you will oblige

Hon Sir your obedient humble servant

John Frederick ELLIOTT

Cloth Fair
Aug 31 1819

Honourable Sir,

I have delayed sending a regular [statement, as since] my proposal of 25th July have been solicitous to make some useful amendments in my party. Having contemplated the subject with [seclusion] & fixed attention & availed myself of the experience & advice of recent Travellers & Settlers I have [formed a plan] which is admirably adapted to effect the purpose of the industrious settler & must serve the object of His Majesty's Government equally [simple &] usefull & so consolidating the [strength & resources] of the settlers as to bid defiance to every obstacle. I forbear to trespass upon your valuable time altho' should be happy to [communicate] my plans if the Earl BATHURST should be pleased to allow my settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. I am ready to conform myself to all of the conditions upon which His Majesty's Government have offered to grant land in the Colony.

I am Sir with all respect

Your obed't sev't

John Fred'k ELLIOTT

John Frederick ELLIOTT	Now a grocer	35	Martha Ellie	34	James	8	Ellen Mary	10 2
Richard BROWNLOW	Farmer	24	Ellen	20			Martha	10 m
Robert BROWNLOW	Do.	26	Maria	21
STANLEY	Shoemaker	39	Ann	40			Ann Jane Eliza	18 11 6
DUCKWORTH	Vine dresser	28
W. EVERETT	Cork cutter	36	Jane	25			Jane Mary	4 2
H. [HIMING]	Teacher	27
Richard BROWN	Printer	38	Elizabeth	40			Elizabeth	9
William CLARK	Farmer	41	Ann	30	William	5	Mary Eliza Maria	8 6 2
Van SMITH	Printer	28	Wife	22	John	3
Henry SMITH	Carpenter	35	Wife	30	Edward	9	Mary	6
John [CAMIES] very distrest & now exercises the trade of Carpenter	Gardiner		Mary	35	Richard John Jos’h	10 6 3	Sarah	11
James MITCHEL	Tailor	40	Elizabeth	38	John Jos’h	3 1 1/2
George STANLEY	Shoemaker	19
John JAY	Do.	35	Elizabeth	32	Joseph J H[enry]	8 3 mo
Joseph DURIEN		25	Lucy	21			Mary	6 mo

September 30, 1819

Hon Sir

As Mr [ADDY] resolves to leave Mr WILSON's party I have consented to acquiesce in his desire to join me, & as many heads of parties are anxious to avail themselves of my experience & information upon this important subject & give a decided preference to my plans, I humbly hope & indulge the pleasing contemplation of serving them & my country. He being an eligible young man may become usefull but as [torn page - ?most of?] my labourers in farming [torn page - ?are?] in good situations by permitting me to amend my list you will oblige

yours respectfully and obediently

John Frederick ELLIOTT

PS if references are necessary as to moral character & ability can refer to some of the first noblemen, gentlemen and ministers

ELLIOTT, Richard William

Honey-Gate Farm

W. Sunderland

Durham

12 August 1819

My Lord

From the copy of a circular which lately appeared in the newspapers it appears to be the intention of the British Government to send out settlers to the Cape of Good Hope on condition that the person so sent out and wishing to have a grant of land shall take out ten settlers and deposit ten pounds for each in the hands of the Secretary. I have two brothers who are desirous as well as myself to emigrate and should above all prefer settling in a country under the British Government providing we can have any prospect of a reasonable return for the capital we would employ - we would each take out the number of settlers if the information which we trust your Lordship will be pleased to give of the subject is at all satisfactory. We are desirous to know whether the British Government will pay the freight for agricultural implements or household furniture, and if the person taking out settlers will be allowed to choose the district in which he would like to have his allotment as it does not appear from the accounts which have lately been received from the Colony that property can be at all secure in the remote districts bordering on the Caffer Country from the frequent inroads of the native hordes, moreover from the accounts travellers give of the country there is not above one third part of the land that will ever repay the expense of cultivating which renders it only prudent before removing to so distant a part of the world to enquire of the government and give a promise that the land granted to the settler will be of such quality as by the common mode of culture practiced at the Cape afford a fair remuneration for the labour and expense of cultivating, as it appears unless the allotment is brought into a state of cultivation in a given time it will be forfeited.

It may not be improper to inform you Lordship that I have been all my life employed in agriculture, and if character is required I flatter myself as being able to refer [page torn] who will perfectly satisfy in that he [gap] a reply and information which I trust [gap] Lordship will be pleased to favour [gap] with on the subject.

I am my lord your Lordship's most humble servant

Richard William ELLIOTT

Honey-Gate Farm

Houghton-le-Spring

Durham

14 September 1819

My Lord,

I take the liberty of addressing your Lordship and respectfully solicit your Lordship's answers to the following questions.

I am my lord

Your Lordship's obedient servant

R W ELLIOTT

Question 1

Does government intend sending out any more settlers to the Cape of Good Hope after Nov. next when I suppose the transports now fitting out will sail?

Question 2

Will you be allowed a grant of land and to make choice of the district provided I take out settlers at my own cost and in what part of the Colony the land is situated which is to be so disposed of?

Should any settlers be sent out next spring my brother and self will engage to take out the number and fulfill all other conditions required.

[In clerk's hand]

Left by Mr John SMITH

Falcon Wharf

Bankside

who will forward this to Mr ELLIOTT

Honey-Gate Farm

W. Sunderland

Durham

25 Nov. 1819

Sir

From a circular I received from Downing Street dated October 14^th in reply to a letter addressed to Earl Bathurst it appears that the whole number of settlers whom it is possible for the British Government to send out to the Cape of Good [sic] during the present year has been completed.

I shall feel greatly obliged if you will be pleased to signify to Earl Bathurst that I am desirous to emigrate to the Colony and take out settlers at my own expense, and shall have no objection to leave a deposit in the hands of Earl Bathurst if required to secure the fulfilment of my engagement providing I am allowed a grant of land at the rate of one hundred acres for each person so taken out, the number of settlers not to exceed fifteen and can have information in what part of the Colony I may have my allotment.

I shall take it as a great favour if you will send me an answer as soon as convenient as I shall have agricultural implements to provide and other business which I cannot arrange in less than three months - if my offer is accepted.

I am your most obedient servant

Richard William ELLIOTT

PS if recommendation is required I have no doubt of procuring the most satisfactory

ELSTED, Mark

No. 127 Old Street

London

July 20, 1819

Sir

We whose names are under sind are out of employment and has no meanes of obtaining a livelihood at present so that we have a desire to emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope if possible we can get

your most humble servant

Mark ELSTED, Carpenter

John STONE, Carpenter & wife & 2 children

No. 127 Old Street

William VINSON, Carpenter & wife & 3 children

No. 7 Duke Street, St George in the East

James LAWRY, Carpenter & wife

No. 70 New Gravel Lane, Shadwell

Joseph PARROTT, Carpenter

Queens Head Walk, Hogston [?Hoxton?]

John WILSON

Coffey House, Hoxton Square

EMIGRANT, an anonymous

London 19^th Sept 1891 [sic]

My Lord,

The protracted suspence in which you keep us poor emigrants is alike hurtful to our property and feelings. Your Lordship knows what description of persons the Government consider most eligible, therefore when a list is presented why not say at once if it is or is not accepted, this would enable the applicants to prepare for quitting this country or to look after work if they remain in it. Quarter day is fast approaching, the poor man must either continue his house or give it up; if he continues it and should be amongst the elect number he must forfeit a quarters rent or break his engagement with the person leading the party, if he gives it up and should be amongst those rejected he and his family are destitute of a residence. This incertitude is equally oppressive upon those men undertaking to lead parties, they are at a considerable expence in forming engagements with their workmen, these engagements can only be conditional as your Lordship will not tell them whether they really can go and these workmens necessities will not allow a day of their letting work pass them in vague hopes only. Therefore should the engaging partys offer be at last accepted when he comes to look for his people one tells him he waited until tired and then took a long job which he cannot leave, another says the time is too short to dispose of my furniture to any advantage and without which I cannot provide necessaries for my children therefore I will not go. Thus the person engaging is obliged a second time to procure people and the list first sent to your Lordship must be altered accordingly, and all this at the moment when he should be purchasing what is necessary for himself and people, both on the passage and after being landed at the Colony.

If it is intended that the £50,000 granted by Parliament should do the greatest good to the men for whom it is meant to be expended I humbly conceive your Lordship should say to those persons offering to lead parties and who may be eligible for your offer of taking so many people to the Cape is accepted provided the men are of such and such descriptions.

However if the whole is only a political measure intended to form a barrier against the Caffres in order to enable Government to lessen or withdraw altogether the military posts on that frontier, the interest of the settler need not be so assiduously attended to as the poorer a man is the less reluctance he generally has to become a soldier or militiaman, but even in this case it would be only justice in your Lordship to give the people going out a hint of it, in order that they may not lay out all their little fortune on domestic and farming necessaries but reserve a part to furnish munitions of war so that when their Caffre neighbours pay them a visit more efficient response than pitchforks and spades may be at hand.

I am your Lordship’s very humble servant

A Proposed Emigrant

EMRIE, W

Jersey

28 July 1819

My Lord

Understanding it to be the intention of Government, to establish a settlement to the S.E. and within the boundries of the Cape of Good Hope.

Should your Lordship be in want of a person as a Deputy Storekeeper, clerk, or assistant surveyor, I beg to offer myself as a candidate for such appointment, and hope that a service of more than 16 years in the Navy, nearly 13 of them as Purser, may give me some claims to your Lordship's attention: and should your Lordship be pleased to consider me eligible for a situation of that nature, I will produce for your Lordship's satisfaction the most unequivocal testimonials from the Captains with whom I have sailed, and also letters from the Mercantile House by whom I have been employed as Supercargo since I have been on half-pay. The affairs of a colony, in not a very advanced state; are not altogether new to me, having been Purser of the Crocodile with Commodore COLUMBINE when he was governor of Sierra Leone in 1810 & 1811 and by him frequently employed in the Colonial office.

For my wife, children, and an agricultural servant or two which I should beg might be allowed to accompany, or follow me to the Colony; I should propose making the same deposit as other settlers going to the same place. Being informed there are printed regulations or conditions relative to emigrating to the Cape, if it is not contrary to the rules of Office may I beg a copy of them.

I have the honor to be My Lord

Your Lordship's most obedient servant

W. EMRIE

Purser, Royal Navy

EMSLIE, Robert

Gibsens Street

Foundry

Hull

30^th August 1819

The Humble Petion of Robert EMSLIE, an out Pensioner of Chelsea at 2/3 d pr Diem

Humbly sheweth

That your petioner hath aplyed to the Board of Chelsea for permission to receive his pension at the Cape of Good Hope and hath received permission accordingly, Should your Lordship be pleased to grant permission to your Petitioner to Emigrate to that place with his familie, viz Wife and 4 Children under 8 years of age – 2 Sons and 2 Daughters, your humble petitioner prays for free passage for self and family – as also such further allowances as your Lordship may think proper to grant, to him, your petioner having Served H.M. 31 Years and upwards 21 of which he was a noncommissioned officer in the 75^th & 76^th Regiment of foot your petioner having a pension as above, which will be paid by the Company General at the Cape. Shall he be oblidged to Deposit same as thoes who are not pensioners also will aney Transport be sent to this port as ther is others, similary Circumstanced, praying also for your Lordships permission: an answer to this will answer all other Enquirers and be thankfully received by an old Soldier who for the welfare of His Majestys Government will Ever pray as in Duty bound

Robert EMSLIE

late Serjeant 75^th and 76^th Regt of Foot

[attached to this letter]

Copy of a leter from Joseph LYNN Esq.

Royal Hospital Chelsea 26 Augt 1819

In Reply to your petion of the 9^th Inst praying to be alowed to receive your pension at the Cape of good hope, I am to inform you that the Commissionof this Hospital have been pleased to grant you ther permission and that your transmitting to this office the particulays of having procured a passage stating the time when you are to Embark with the place at which you intend to reside, the necessary directions will be forwarded to the Commissary General at the Station, to whom you must apply on your arrival, for the payment of your pension accordingly &c &c signed Joseph LYNN

Extract, from Major Genl GORDON’s letter Cork 1st Augt 1819

EMSLIE, you say that £15 will be asked as a Deposite for your familie to be returned at or soon after your Landing at the Cape I will advance the money when I know to where it is to be paid.

Signed Ben GORDON

PS Could I be permitted to proceed without Depositing this money, I would not wish to put the General to such expense as I think my pension would be sufficient to help me.

Robert EMSLIE

Gibsons Street, Foundry, Hull

16^th Augt 1819

Hon Sir,

I humbly ask your forgiveness for my freedome in thus addressing a Gentleman to whom I am a stranger - when you will have consiedred my case, which I trust you will have the goodness to do. I hope you will favour us with your advice having petioned Earle BATHURST on 30^th Inst as you have seen and received his answer thro your honor. - I endavoured to fiend 9 mor families wanting to Emigrate to the Cape, but only one could I fiend that could pay the deposit money and were I again to petition his Lordship with only two or three families would I am afraid incur his displeasure, and for us to come to London, and break up our homes, and not be permitted to proceed, would be certain ruin to our small families. in concidring the above I have taken the liberty of praying for your kiend assistance, by letting me know if it would be proper for us to com or not, and whatever you think would tend must likely to favour our obtaining liberty of proceeding this present season to the Cape of Good Hope. Your favourable answer will be thankfully received and add greatly to the happiness of my small familie who joins with me in asking your parden for this freedom.

I am Honored Sir

Your very humble Servant

Robert EMSLIE

Late Serjeant 76 Regt

Foundry Hull Yorkshire

10^th Octr 1819

My Lord,

We - The undersigned most humbly pray your forgivness for thus troubling you but having seen an advertisement in the Liverpool paper of a Messrs Whitley and Co for pepole willing to Emigrate to the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope stating that the person so advertising hath Governments approbation for so doing as only 3 families from this place (that are known of) are willing to go and pay the deposit money we humbly pray your Lordship to be so good as to accquaint us whether or not we should be acting proper in going to Liverpool and paying the Deposit money required by the Circular for our families in to ther hands. Your answer will be thankfully received by your very humble and obedient Servants.

Robert EMSLIE

Jos’h RHODES

Sam DUGELBY

EONARD, B.H.

Rowe's Hotel

No. 33 Coventry Street

Friday 16 July 1819

Sir

Should I prove informal in in [sic] my mode of addressing you I beg that you will not attribute it to any want of proper respect but solely to my being unacquainted with the customary forms of applying to official gentlemen.

By the reports in the public papers I am led to believe that Government have it in contemplation to establish a colony on the coast of Africa near to the cape of good hope. I take then the liberty that you will communicate to me as soon as your convenience will permit and with as much precision as possible the site chosen for the contemplated colony, the conditions on which government will make grants of land and further permit me to say that if it shall be made worth my while by a good grant that I will undertake to colonize it with my countrymen from the North west of Ireland. To my county member Mr E. S. C[ISPRE] I am well known and as I contributed not a little to assist the Earl of Selkirk in 1812 to establish his colony at Red River in British North America I venture to consider and hope I am well-qualified for the undertaking I have in view.

Awaiting your reply I have the honor to be your very [assured] humble servant

B. H. EONARD

ERITH, James Thomas

28 Wellington St

Newington Causeway

Jan 30^th 1819

Sir,

Excuse the liberty I have taken in addressing you but understanding that instructions have been issued from your office respecting settlers for the Cape of Good Hope & by which I am informed that Government franks those that go over free of expense and that after their arrival each settler at the Cape is to receive 50 acres of land as compensation for leaving this country and as many acres as they may wish by lease at a certain sum per Annum each acre.

Trusting to your goodness to answer my petition

I remain Sir

Your Obedient Humble Servant

J. T. ERITH

28 Wellington St

Newington Causeway

Surrey

My Lord,

As I have been favoured with one of your instructions concerning the Colony about to be formed at the Cape of Good Hope and as I am with several of my friends desirous of settling there [hole in paper] your Lordship will favour me with [every] particular and what part of the Cape the establishment will be at.

Your early reply will much oblige

My Lord, Your Lordships Most obedient Humble Servant

Jas. Thos. ERITH

12 William St

Harper St

Kent Rd

May 18^th 1819

Sir,

I have had the honour to secure your letter of the 15^th instant acquainting me that His Majesty’s Government no longer gives encouragement to persons proceeding as Settlers to North America and I beg leave humbly to represent to you that my letter of the 15^th instant written on behalf of myself and nine Others expressed our readiness to settle not in the British possessions in North America but at the Cape of Good Hope that we were ready to pay the usual deposit and to conform to any other conditions required by Government if His Majesty’s secretary of State for the Colonies was pleased to encourage our views

I have the honour to be Sir

Your most Obedient Humble Servant

J.T. ERITH

12 William St

Harper St

Kent Rd

May 29^th 1819

Sir,

I beg leave to state that I am ready to take out and locate upon land at the Cape of Good Hope ten settlers at the least and that we are ready to Pay down the deposit required by His Majestys Government if the Hon Secretary of State for the Colonies should approve of this proposal and if any reference is further required I take the liberty of referring to Mr G THOMAS Iron Monger Strood near Rochester or Mr Robert FOWLER farmer Rochester who have known me long as a Free holder of the country of Kent. I am also known to Mr E. KNATCHBULL for whom I voted at the last election if this application not be precisely in the form required I will be happy to amend it on being made acquainted with the wishes of the Government.

I have the Honour to be Sir

your Ob Humble Servant

Ja Tho ERITH

[written across bottom: Lord B has not thought it advisable to accept this proposal]

No 2 Bardon Place

Peckham

20^th August 1819

Sir

I have the honour of receiving your letter of the 10^th Inst requesting the ages of the several individuals that are to accompany me to the Cape of Good Hope. I beg leave to state that I should have answered it immediately but the Persons living at the Minster in the Isle of Sheppey Kent has caused this delay being so far off.

James Thomas ERITH aged thirty years

Jane ERITH wife aged thirty years

Jane ERITH dau aged three years

Eleanor ERITH dau aged eighteen months

Mary ERITH sister aged twenty nine years

William ERITH her son aged ten years

Mary Ann ERITH her dau aged nine years

Robert ROBERSON aged twenty seven years

Martha ROBERSON wife aged twenty six years

Robert ROBERSON son aged four years

John ROBERSON son aged two years

Philip ROBERSON son aged five months

Louisa ROBERSON dau aged five years

Mical HAROM Single aged thirty five years

William CLOVER Single aged thirty five years

James ALLEN Single aged thirty seven years

Robert KEMSLEY Single aged twenty one years

John PANKHURST Single aged twenty four years

James STRUTT Single aged twenty one years

Richard READER Single aged twenty four years

James ROBERSON Single aged twenty one years

Charlotte ROBERSON his wife aged twenty six years

Ebraham ROBERSON son aged six years

Stanley ROBERSON son aged ten months

I have the honour to be Sir

Your Most Ob.Humble Serv

Jas. Thos. ERITH

August 1819

The humble partition of James Thomas ERITH of No 2 Bardon Place, Peckham Baker –

Humbly shewth,

That your petitioner being desirous of proceeding to the Cape of Good Hope with his wife and family for the purpose of cultivating such parts of the soil as may be allotted to him by His Majesties Government accompanied by the persons named on the other side hereof is willing to deposit the usual sums required of persons under similar circumstances and therefore most humbly pray, that your Lordship will be pleased to authorise your petition and the several persons above referred to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope and to allow them such portion of land subject to the usual conditions as may be judged proper – engaging for him self and the persons in question to render due obedience to His Majesties Government and to conform to all and every regulation required of the persons emigrating to the aforesaid Colony.

James Thomas ERITH, wife and two children.

Mary ERITH, sister, two children No 2 Coalman St Woolwich Kent

Robert ROBERSON, wife and four children Minster Isle of Sheppey.

James ROBERSON, wife and two children Minster Isle of Sheppey.

William ALLEN single man Minster Isle of Sheppey

Michal HAROM single man Minster Isle of Sheppey

William CLOVER single man Minster Isle of Sheppey

Robert KEMSLEY single man Minster Isle of Sheppey

Richard READER single man Minster Isle of Sheppey

James STRUTT single man Minster Isle of Sheppey

John PANKHURST single man Minster Isle of Sheppey

DEER (or DYER), John re James ERITH (filed under D in CO48/42)

707

Admiralty Office 14 Aug 1819

Being acquainted with some of the [??]sions of Mr. James Thomas ERITH the writer [of] the accompanying Petition, I beg leave to [acqu]aint you that I understand him to be a [man]of good character and integrity and in possession [of] about £1000. It is right however to observe [it is] some time since he applied for permission to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope which was [??]d, and it is supposed in consequence of …..representation made by a person of the name of BEALE that the latter was unable to proceed to the Cape with certain other [persons] in consequence of Mr. ERITH having refused to abide by an engagement to accompany [him] but it appears that after the negotiation BEALE was entered into, the latter was [discovered?].to be a Prisoner in the King’s Bench f[or debt] & as he was anxious to obtain from ERITH [the] deposits required from him and the persons who were to accompany him, he considered that he was in danger of losing his money [and] therefore declined any further communication with him. Under these circumstances hope that the prayer of the Petitioner will be complied with.

I have the honor to be Sir your most obedient and humble servant

J.W.DEER

[transcriber’s note: the name is given as DEER in Nash, but the signature looks more like DYER]

ERNST, Philip

37 Crispin Street

Spital-fields

London

July 19, 1819

My Lord

I am a healthy young man aged 22 years, a member of the Church of England, and have had a good Plain Education. I have supported myself since I was 13 years old, and by dint of industry, accumulated 36 Pounds, but I have always wished to have the cultivation of a little land, and should be very happy to settle at the Cape of Good hope. I would willingly deposit 10 pounds for myself but my connection being small, I have no opportunity of commanding 10 persons, therefore humbly ask your Lordship's advice which will be thankfully received and duly attended to.

By your Lordship's humble and obedient servant

Philip ERNST

37 Crispin Street

Spital-fields

London

October 24, 1819

My Lord

I am a young man 22 years of age and have made application to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope in a party signed J. ROBERTS but have been unfortunately refused; I am consequently in a most awkward situation being out of employment and likely to continue so owing to the depressed state of every trade and profession. I therefore humbly beg leave to say that if your Lordship would annex my name to any party accepted & permit me to work my passage over either to the Cape or New South Wales I should be extremely thankful and I flatter myself I should not be a bothersome addition to either Colony as I have a slight knowledge of agriculture and the preparation of silk for exportation together with £50 ready money and as to character I can if necessary produce testimonials from the Rev. C. MACCARTHY, Chaplain to the right Hon Earl BATHURST, from the Rev West WHELDALE, rector of Spitalfields and numerous respectable house keepers who have known me for upwards of 12 years, therefore should I be deemed worthy of notice by your Lordship or his Majesty's Government I shall ever remember any attention I may receive with infinite grattitude. Any communication will be thankfully attended to by your Lordship's very humble and obedient servant

Philip ERNST

EVANS, Charles

No. 28 Fendall St.

near Bermondsey Church

London

26 July 1819

Sir

I called at the Colonial office, respecting the intended settlement at the Cape of Good Hope and was desired to address my enquiry to you for information.

I beg to know when vessels are intended to depart from hence, and what distance is the intended settlement from Cape Town - and what tonnage is allowed each family.

As it is not so easy to muster five families, I beg to be informed if my family of wife, child & girl can engage a passage singly.

I intend to make cultivation my pursuit - here, I have followed it with a mercantile profession.

I am respectfully

Sir your most obed't s't

Cha. EVANS

No. 28 Fendall St.

Bermondsey Church

London

27 Septem 1819

Sir

I received your favour of 28th of July. I beg leave now to forward the annexed list of persons proposing to go as settlers to the new Colony at the Cape of Good-hope.

Waiting your instructions

I am respectfully

Sir your most obed't serv't

Cha. EVANS

Name/description of the person taking out settlers	Names of settlers	Profession or trade	Age	Names of women	Age	Male children	Age	Female children	Age
Cha’ EVANS Agricultur’t		Agricultur’t	42	Mary	26	Henry	7	Jane	12
	Will’m S. JONES	Tobacco & Vine Dr	22
	Thos LEONARD	Carpenter	32	Sarah	30
	W’m CURT[EYS]	Labourer	22	Jane	21
	H’y NELL	Butcher	23
	H’y BOOTH	Labourer	22
	Tho’s TROTMAN	Labourer	19
	Isaac BOOTH	Labourer	25	Jane	28	John	3
	G. NICHOLLS	Labourer	20
	R. PALIN	Labourer	21
	John WATTS	Shoemaker	36
	James SAGE	Labourer	21	Elizabeth	23
	Tho’s HUGHES	Labourer	22
	J. BISHOP	Labourer	37
	Alex’n ADAMS	Labourer	42
	R’t DICKENSON	Labourer	44			Frederick Alfred Henry	11 9 6	Amelia	13
	W’m BABB	Baker	45
	Total	17 men 5 women 5 male child’n 2 female do.

No. 28 Fendall St.

Bermondsey Church

London

5 Oct 1819

Sir

I beg to refer you to the ltr I addressed to you the 27^th ult and shall feel obliged by an early reply, as it will require some little time to make arrangements for proceeding to the Cape.

I am respectfully Sir

Your most obed’t sev’t

Cha. EVANS

Copy

Sir

I duly received your favour of 28th July. I now beg leave to forward the annexed list of 17 men, 5 women & 5 children who propose to go as settlers to the intended colony at the Cape of good Hope.

Waiting your instructions

I am respectfully

Sir your most obed't serv't

Cha. EVANS

No. 28 Fendall St.

Bermondsey Church

London

5 Oct 1819

Copy

Sir

I addressed you the 27th ult. I shall feel obliged by an early reply as it will require some little time to make arrangements for proceeding to the Cape.

I am respectfully

Sir your most ob’t s’t

Cha EVANS

Cha. EVANS

No. 28 Fendall St.

Bermondsey Church

London

12 Octo 1819

Sir

I am still without your reply to the annexed list which I have anxiously looked for. I will yet hope disappointment will not attend my labor & expenses in forming a select party.

I remain, with respect

Your most obed't [hb’l] serv't

Cha. EVANS

Name/description of the person taking out settlers	Names of settlers	Profession or trade	Age	Names of women	Age	Male children	Age	Female children	Age
Cha’ EVANS Agricultur’t	Cha EVANS	Agricultur’t	42	Mary	26	Henry	8	Jane	13
	W. S. JONES	Tobacco & Vine Pltr	22
	H’y NELL	Butcher	23
	H’y BOOTH	Labourer	22
	Tho’s TROTMAN	Labourer	19
	Isaac BOOTH	Labourer	25	Jane	28	John	3
	G. NICHOLLS	Labourer	20
	R. PALIN	Labourer	21
	Tho’s LEONARD	Carpenter	32	Sarah	31
	W’m CURT[EYS]	Labourer	22	Jane	21
	J. BISHOP	Labourer	37
	Alex’n ADAMS	Labourer	42
	R’t DICKENSON	Labourer	44	-		Frederick Alfred Henry	11 9 6	Amelia	13
	John WATTS	Shoemaker	36
	W’m BABB	Baker	45
	James SAGE	Labourer	21	Elizabeth	23
	Tho’s HUGHES	Labourer	22

	Total	17 men 5 women 5 male child’n 2 female do.
	NB this is a copy of what was sent in the 27th September 1819

EVANS, David

Ashford

Kent

Sept 6, 1819

My lord

I beg leave most respectfully to enquire whether it be the intention of his Majesty's Ministers to encourage the migration of Clergyman of the established Church to the Cape of Good Hope. I am a married man, having one child, & thirty five years of age. It may be unnecessary to state that I have no [preferment] in this country, but have no hesitation in asserting that I can be well recommended to your notice, not only by the members of my own profession, but also by the member of Parliament for my native county who is a near relation of one of the cabinet ministers.

I have the honour to be my Lord

your Lordship's most obedient and very humble servant

David EVANS

EVANS, E.R.

No 7 Green Court

Poultney Street

Golders Green

Tewsday 28 July 1819

[transcriber’s note:28 July was actually a Wednesday]

Sir

having seen the circular ishued by Government conserning the Emigration of artisans etc to the Cape of Good hope I would wish to offer my services as a Mechanical Man in Distress having a family & can get no employ by Trad Brass Finisher can work at Smiths work of all discription & understand the Mother of Pearl frame Work etc, & would be glad if you will favour him with the necessary instructions for accomplishing the above.

E R EVANS

EVANS, Joseph

Lambeth

Aug 3, 1819

Sir

I apply’d at the Colonial office on Saturday last on the purport of emigration to the Cape of good hope and was informed I must address a letter to you stating the name, place of abode and occupation of ten persons willing to settle there. We the under mentioned ten persons & families wish for the particulars providing you see any objection to any of us, and remain with due respect your obedient servents.

Joseph EVANS aged 22 single a wine cooper 17 Union Street

James SQUARE aged 22 single a horn maker

James [PLAIL] aged 24 & wife aged 21 - gardener

Thomas SIMPSON aged 24 single - bricklayer

William CUMMINS aged 27 single - bricklayer

George STREETER aged 23 single - shoemaker

John TRATTON aged 35 & wife 38 - gardener

Lucas GLOVER aged 28 & wife 26 - gardener

Mark PEMBER aged 28 & wife 25 - chair maker

George GIRDLAR aged 24 single a bricklayer

They that are married have no children. Please to say if you require the place of abode of the whole and direct to

Joseph EVANS 17 Union Street Lambeth

17 Union Street

Lambeth

Aug 11, 1819

Sir

in answer to yours of third of this month I accede to the proposals made by government with respect to the settlers going to the Cape of Good hope and am ready to deposit the Hundred pounds at any time the government shall require and wish to know wether I could nominate any other person without going thro the whole process again in case one or more of my number should decline prior to the sailing of the transports. Likewise if there is any further instructions would wish to see them if not troubleing you to much. I do not know wether it is necessary to send you the names again of the whole therefore have done it, their being two of the first number declined. Sir an answer to this much oblige your Obedient and most Humble servent

Joseph EVANS

	names	age	number of children	occupation	reside
1	Joseph EVANS	22	single	wine cooper	17 Union Street
2	James PLAIL	24	& wife no children	gardener
3	James SQUARE	22	single	horn & trumpet maker
4	Lucas GLOVER	28	& wife no children	gardener
5	John SCOTT	35	& wife no children	gardener
6	George STRETER	23	single	shoemaker
7	William HAYWARD	30	& wife 2 children	ground worker
8	Robert FLETCHER	29	widower 2 children	labourer
9	William CUMMINS	27	single	bricklayer
10	Mark ELSON	28	& wife no children	chair maker

EVANS, R

50 St Mary Axe

Sept 6, 1819

Sir

I shall feel particularly obliged by you favouring me with the conditions on which persons are allowed to emigrate to the Cape of good Hope.

I am Sir your most obedient & humble servant

R EVANS

EVANS, Richard

23 Atherton Street

Liverpool

29 Dec 1819

Sir

I beg leave to submit to your Lordship a circumstance that has occurred to a passenger of the settlers bound to the Cape of Good Hope. This person was one of W. SMITH's party and has paid his deposit of £10. Since then in consequence of some family affair he has declined going. His luggage is all on board. Upon my applying to Lieut CHURCH for the delivery of the same he said he could not comply with my request unless he received directions from your Lordship. I hope therefore under the afflicting circumstances the family are placed in, your Lordship will order the same to be given up.

I am my lord your Lordship's most humble servant

Richard EVANS