CO48/43
National Archives, Kew,
Transcribed by volunteers from the ZA-IB and ZA-EC Rootsweb mailing
lists from digital photographs taken by Sue Mackay at the National Archives. The
original correspondence is filed in order of receipt. Here it has been placed
in alphabetical order according to the surname of the writer, with letters by
the same writer in chronological order, for ease of reading. Original spelling
has been maintained.
Letters were either addressed to Lord BATHURST,
Secretary of State for the Colonies, (starting My Lord), or to his deputy Henry
GOULBURN (starting Sir). Reference numbers, where
given, refer to printed page numbers stamped on the letters and will enable
visitors to the National Archives to locate the letter more easily. If a page
number is not given then the date of the letter will give a good idea of its
whereabouts in the file.
Names in red actually became 1820 settlers to
FABIAN, Benjamin
223
Flathouse
Portsea
Sept 23 1819
Sir,
In
consequence of having little or no employment at present I am induced to make
application to go to the
I
shall be particularly obliged if you will condescend to favor
me with a reply, stating if I may be permitted to go, and at what time I must
be ready to embark, so that I may be able to settle my business previous to my
leaving my native place.
I
shall also esteem it a favour if you will inform me the difference in expence if I should go alone or if I should take my family.
Your early reply will much oblige.
Your most obedt hble sevt
Benjamin FABIAN
225
Flathouse
Portsea
Sept 28 1819
Sir,
I am
exceedingly obliged for your early reply to my former letter and shall esteem
it a particular favor if you will forward me a
Duplicate of the Conditions of Emigrating to the
I am Sir
Your very obdt hbl sevt
Benjamin FABIAN
FARMER,
Walter et al
181
August 16
1819
My Lord,
From
the good encouragement held out by Government to persons wishing to settle in
the Cape of Good Hope, we whose names are hereunto subscribed, being Farmers,
are induced to become settlers there and would wish to become fully informed
(as well for our own guidance as for those persons who will come with us) on
the Principles of Settlement there as stated in the public newspapers.
In
the first place we would wish to be informed whether settlers will be allowed
to bring out their families at the expence of
Government and how many persons each family must consist of. Whether we are to
be each at the expence of bringing 10 persons to the
place of embarkation, whether that is to take place in
In
the next place we wish to know whether it is here or at the Cape e are to get
the grant of the land promised by Government & what part of the Cape it
will be situated. Whether Government will give us any assistance for the
support of our families and those persons we bring with us from the time we
land there till our first crops come round.
Lastly
we would wish to know what controul we are to have
over those persons we bring with us and in what manner that controul
will be established. In all these particulars your Lordship will have the
kindness to inform us as we have nothing to delay us here but to be fully
informed of these particulars. We beg leave to suggest to your Lordship that it
would be greatly to our advantage to embark from & lodge our money in
Ireland as the exchange between the countries is so high that we must lose a
great deal of our capital by being obliged to go to England. We beg your
Lordship will inform us at what period in the year the Government vessels will sail
for the
We
have the honour to be your Lordship’s obedt hble sevts
William PERRIN Mervill Duplavin
John PERRIN Do.
Walter FARMER Ballilore
John EDWARDS Naraghanore
Daniel GOODWIN Ballilore
James GOODWIN Do.
George RYDER Do.
Thos. BUSTER Do.
Joseph WILLIAMS Do.
FARMER,
William and Edward WRIGHT
111
Two Sawyers
Minories
July 16 1819
My Lord,
Having observed in the proceedings of the
Honourable House of Commons that it is the intention of Government to send such
of his Majesty’s subjects to the Cape of Good Hope as may feel desirous of
emigrating to that Colony, we beg leave earnestly to solicit your interest to
procure for us the assistance in common with others as it is your intent to aford. We have received each a liberal education and in
turn accustomed to the Farming live. In the confident hope of receiving our
early and favourable reply we remain
Your Lordship’s most obedient and humble servants
William FARMER
Edward J. WRIGHT
FARMSWORTH, Wright
230
Mareham
le Fen
Near
Horncastle
4th
Oct 1819
The humble memorial of Wright FARNSWORTH of the Parish
of Mareham le Fen in the
Wright FARMSWORTH
FARRANT, Joseph
140/141
28
July 1819
Sir!
In
consequence of the overtures made by Government to the British public, and the
inducements held out for settlers, to emigrate to the
What may
be the state of protection which Government would afford the settlers against
the incursions of the Caffrers, the Bushmen
&c? Whether there are military posts
established for their protection in case of need? I take it for granted that
the jurisprudence of the
My
own family consists of self, wife and 4 children, 2 girls & 2 boys, the
eldest (a girl) of 16 yrs of age, the youngest a boy abt.
11 yrs. My own age 42, in the former part of my life was [had?] up to farming
pursuits tho' not continued in that line for some
years past but now pursuing the [command?] seed trade which are in some
respects concomitants of husbandry.
As,
the probable distance from the Cape where the settlement may be fixed will be
at least 500 miles what civil controuling [sic] power
will there be to preserve a due equipoise of equity amongst the settlers. There
may be probably some persons who may join me or if not, should any of the seats
of the Westleyan[sic] dissenters go out its possible
I may join their body (tho I am not connected with
that body in their religious views) It may be necessary also to enquire if
Government are disposed to assist settlers with any portion of the parlimentary grant on their location, independant
of the return of the deposit and what portion of land, a man his wife & 4
children will have alloted to them; on the due
cultivation of the lands, will Government permit the settlers to trade with the
natives or others, with a view of importing of merchandize to England or at her
ports that may be open to them.
It
is very desirable that the fullest information should be had previous to the
undertaking so hazardous a speculation and I shall feel personally obliged by
your furnishing me this all the information Government may feel necessary to
communicate.
I am respectfully your obt. servt.
Joseph FARRANT
150
Sir!
I
am favoured with your circular of the 29th inst. in answer to my letter of the
28th, but it does not embrace the explanations I wish for.
On
reconsidering the subject, I perceive one person is to be made responsible for
those who may go out with him. I will put a case, suppose eleven men with their
families (agreeable to the already conditions of passage & deposit) are desirious of going out to form a part of the colonists to
the Cape of Good Hope, of the Wesleyian persuasion
(and Government are well acquainted with their social friendly &
persevering habits) and they agree by a written document to form a joint stock
company and their capital will amt. to 550£ over and above their deposits, if
they select from their own body, one capable person [in point?] of integrity and of judgement as their ostensible Agent, will the Government
under these considerations make a grant of land equal to 1100 acres of land to
be apportioned out in eleven allotments, would Government undertake to grant
eleven settlers or must their be only one title to the agent and would he
have the power subsequently of giving title of 100 acres to each of his friends
at some trivial nominal value under the original title, after they had been
located 3 years?
Will
the government require any other and what security otherwise that their
deposits. I should feel obliged if you could furnish me with the names of the
particular parts of the
Awaiting the favour of your reply
I am Sir! Your
very obt. servt.
Joseph FARRANT
FARRAR,
Thomas
211
Sunday
School
No
Brick
Lane
Whitechapel
Augst 27th 1819
Sir,
Having
seen the circular letter relating to the offer made by Government to persons
disposed to emigrate to the
I am Sir your very obt. and very humble sevt.
Thomas FARRER
FEISE, Godfrey
175
Laurencepoutney Hill No.8
August
9th, 1819
Sir,
Having
perused the first printed circular respecting emigration to the Cape of Good
Hope, I beg leave to inform you, that I am a single man of 32 years of age,
active, and healthy, and very ready to deposit the sum of ten pounds, for my
passage to the
I am Sir your most obedt. Humble servant
Godfrey W. FEISE
FELLS, George
160
Huntman's Court
Attercliffe
near
2
Aug 1819
My Lord,
We
the undersigned being desirous of going to the
George FELLS - Potter & Cutler
aged 26 - Wife and two children
John FELLS - Potter & Cutler
aged 30 - Wife and four children
John WILD - Coal Miner aged 27 -
Wife and two children
John SHAW - Woodman aged 21 - Single
Please to direct to George FELLS
FELTON,
George
133
No 6
Cranborn Ally
Lester
Fields
July
27th 1819
Sir,
As
I understand that Government send out emigrants to the Cape of Good Hope; I beg
leave to solisit the permission to be sent out and
also to state that I am 19 years of age have been brought up in country and
cannot at present obtain any employment.
I further beg to state I can find a friend who would deposit the £10
which I have understood is required.
I have the honor to be Sir your obedt. humble sevt.
George FELTON
FENN, John
158
Augst.
2nd 1819
My Lord,
In behalf of a number of tradesmen and others I have
taken the liberty to intrude upon your Lordship to request humbly the terms and
qualifications of the persons that are to be selected by His Majesty’s
Government which are to be sent to the
I am your Lordships very humble and very obedient
servant
Jno. FENN
FENNELL,
William
129
Cork, July
26th 1819
My Lord,
Having
seen a circular in the public papers on the subject of emigration to the
I was
bred a farmer and can lay down the deposit mentioned for 15 or 20 families. I
could also procure about 100 families to emigrate with me and if government
should think proper to entrust me I would engage to act as agent both here and
at the
I
would wish to know particularly at what time a vessel may be ready to carry
emigrants and from what port, what implements of husbandry would be necessary
to carry if any. At what time from their arrival would adventurers be put in
possession of the promised lands, and in case of any unnecessary or unforeseen
delay what provision would Government allow for their maintenance untill their first crops would arrive at maturity, as a
number of people landed in a foreign country destitute of resources would soon
consume the means on which they may now calculate to render themselves and families
comfortable for life. Also if the sum to be refunded by Government in
instalments would be sufficient to procure them the necessary seeds, stock
&c for the formation of a settlement & at what distance from the place
of landing are the proposed lands situated.
If
Government should think proper to accept of my services by sending me
particular instructions I would immediately on receipt thereof commence
engaging a number of people to emigrate, and trust that a few weeks would
accomplish the object. At all events an answer to the different queries within
stated would be of service to me.
I
have the honour to be your Lordship’s most obedient humble servant
Wm. FENNELL
Please direct to the Care of John STRANGE Esq,
203
Clogheen
Aug 26th
1819
My Lord,
I had
the honour of receiving your Lordship’s circular of the 6th instant
and shall feel very happy in complying with the terms proposed by Government in
your Lordship’s first circular.
I am
ready to lay down the deposit for twelve families but am at a loss to know what
description of people would be rejected & what allowed to
proceed to the
I
trust that Government will comply with the wishes of some individuals in
Should
your Lordship be kind enough to intimate to me what description will be
permitted to go I will forward the within mentioned documents together with the
deposit required and make the most expeditious arrangements to be ready for the first ship that sails for
the Cape.
I have the honour to be your Lordship’s most obedt hbl svt
Wm. FENNELL
Please direct as before to the care of John STRANGE
Esq,
FENNER, William
121
Ingatestone
23 July 1819
My Lord,
Anxious
to become a settler in the projected new colony at the Cape I beg leave to
submit a few questions to your Lordship which I trust will not be too
troublesome to you to answer nor too improper for me to ask. If I advance the
stipulated sum for any number of Men will the grant of the proportional
quantity of land be to me or each individual separately, is it expected when
there they should render me assistance and be under my direction in bringing
the ground into cultivation. What are the productions of the Colony.
Animal Vegetable and Mineral. What encouragement will
be given to the settlers in stock, plants, seeds, implements &c. What is the distance from
I am my Lord
Your Lordship’s most obedient humble servant
William E. FENNER
239
Ingatestone
17 Oct 1819
My Lord,
As
the period of emigration to the
Your Lordship’s most hble sevt
W.E. FENNER
FERGUSON,
William
244
25th
October 1819
My Lord,
Circumstances
rendered it impossible for me to leave this Kingdom at the time intimation was
given of the desire of Government to send out emigrants to the
I beg the favour of your Lordship’s answer
My Lord your most obed hble sevt
Wm.
FERRIS,
James
197
Dilton
Marsh
Aug 26 1819
Sir,
Having
sen the circular that you published respecting the emigration to the Cape of
Good Hope and being in the possession of some small property and am therefore
able and willing to take out ten Families under the Considerations & took
it upon me thus to write to you and such an answer as you think necessary will
greatly oblidge your humble servant
James FERRIS
FIELD,
Daniel Hallebread
214
The petition of Daniel Hallebread FIELD of the
town and
Most humbly
sheweth
That your
Lordship's petitioner feels a particular desire to become one of the settlers
at the Cape of Good Hope under the conditions offered in your Lordship's
printed and circular letters and for that purpose has got 10 able bodied
persons who are equally anxious to join him, and are capable of depositing the
10£ required and of taking some trifling money with them for
necessaries on their first arrival; some of these persons are Mechanics, but
have also been to work in the field and Husbandry in general.
That your
honor's petitioner from his good character during three years service as Clerk
in the Commissarial Department was not discharged till nearly the last in the
Peninsula in the year 1817, since which time he has not been able to establish
himself in any office, clerks being but little wanted, and the business of a
Grocer which he now follows, he would gladly exchange to settle abroad, a
warmer climate being congenial to his health.
Your
Lordship's petitioner therefore most humbly prays Your Lordship will be pleased
to take his former services into consideration and to grant him this request,
and he as in duty bound will ever pray.
Daniel Hallebread FIELD
Please let
the letter in answer to this be addressed
D. H. FIELD
at Mr BAKER'S
New Street
234
Commercial Road
Hon Sir
I trust your goodness will pardon the liberty I have taken
being totally unknown to you. I shall
feel myself greatly obliged by your informing me if Dr BARON is excepted by
government or not, to emigrate with his proposals to the Cape Colony and
beg leave with submission to you to further ask if you have recv’d
a letter from Mr H’y CRASKE of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk to the same effect who
is most desirous to make one family in a partie and
can if required give most respectable refference to
those high in power.
I am Honerd Sir your most obed’t very
humble servant
William
FIELD
NB
Customhouse officer
[R] SMITH
Esq
FIELDING,
Mark Stephen
144
Sidlesham
near
My Lord
I hope no offence but with every due respect I make bold to
address you these lines from an advertisement which appeared in newspapers of
an encouragement being held out for settlers to emigrate
to the
I am a surgeon who from misfortunes have
been reduced, and would be very happy to become a settler if government would
allow me a sallery for a certain number of years, as
remuneration for my medical services to those of the settlers. Now my lord,
with every due submission I beg leave to intrude on your time by giving
statement how I have been variously employed. In the year 1802 I was surgeon of
the Perseus convict ship with prisoners, troops and
settlers to
I have the honour to be My Lord
most
respectfully your very obedient servant
Mark
Stephen FIELDING
FINLAY, Joseph
179
Running Horse
Little
Sir
Upon applying at Lord CASTLEREIGHS
office Downing St respecting the emigrating to the
Waiting for
an answer we remain your very obedient humble servants
Joseph
FINLEY
James COOK
Richard
COOK
Adam YOUNG
Thomas LANGAN
James
HOWELL
James ELLEY
FINUCANE, Joseph
228
October 1819
My Lord
Reading a
My father in the year 1808 was a very respectable distiller
in
Under these circumstances I wish to know if there is any
difference made between paupers and respectable persons going to the
I remain my
Lord
Your
Lordship's most obedient & humble servant
Joseph FINUCANE
Any answer
your Lordship is pleased to send direct
Joseph FINUCANE
under
cover to
J.
MIDDLETON Esq
The
agitation I am in in being obliged to write such a
letter is what makes my writing so illegible
FISHER,
George
125
My Lord
On the 17th inst I stated my situation here to the R’t Hon. N. VANSITTART and
offered my services in the formation of the intended Colony at the
I beg leave to state that with the qualities and value of
most articles of foreign and domestic produce I am well acquainted and may
command a small sum of money, or not exceeding £100, should you therefore have
any occasion for the assistance of such a person as myself. I should have no objection to join your
intended colony, or engage in it, for any trust that may be confided to me I
could give sufficient security, as well as satisfactory testimonials as to
character etc.
I therefore respectfully solicit your Lordship will inform
me if I am one of those your plan will embrace; from the public newspapers I
observe that every person who takes out 10 persons or families, is to have 100
acres of land for each person, to have a passage out, and victualed
free of expense, but as no other particular is mentioned, or how they are
further to proceed on arrival, or be provided with stock, stores or implements,
I take the liberty of soliciting information on this or any other details that
may be necessary on the subject.
I am with
the greatest respect My Lord
Your Lordship's
most obed’t h’ble serv’t
George
FISHER
FISHER,
Samuel
246
Sir,
we the undersined have a wish to emegrate to the Cape of Good Hope, that through the
slackness of our trade we are unprovided of means of
going there therefore we most humbly solisit your
Lordships favour to send us word how we possibly can go there.
We are your most humble servants
Richard CORFIELD
Thomas PAGE
Samuel
FISHER
We humbly
thank you for a answer
Please to
direct to Samuel FISHER [Kennion?] Street,
FITZPATRICK,
William
177
Number
The humble
petition of William FITZPATRICK
Humbly sheweth unto your Lordship that your supplicant having
served as a soldier in his Majesty's 102nd Regiment stationed in New South
Wales under the command of Sir Arberd GLADSTONE [Transcriber’s note: Regiments.org have
Lt-Gen Sir Albert GLEDSTANES, Kt as the regiment’s
colonel from 1814 to 1818] and having served twenty three years in the
service and being a eleven years in the Colony of New South Wales and
discharged on the 19th of May 1818 after having regularly passed the Board at
Chelsea and your supplicant finding that there has being encouragement given to
the soldiers on the same station your supplicant would wish to go to the Colony
again if your Lordship should think fit having a wife and child (who were with
me in the colony) and as your supplicant's pension is inadequate to support his
family he would be desirous of emigrating to the colony aforesaid.
May it
therefore please your Lordship to grant unto your supplicant (this) his humble
petition and your supplicant shall for ever pray.
William
FITZPATRICK
FLASHMAN, William Spurrier
167
Aug 6th
1819
My Lord,
Having
been informed at your office that by application in writing I may obtain copies
of the circular respecting the emigration to the Cape of Good Hope and it being
my intention to embark in the undertaking if I like the terms, I humbly solicit
your Lordship will be good enough to order the same to be forwarded to Mr. Wm Spurrier FLASHMAN, No.11 Great
Saint Helens, Bishopsgate
Who remains your Lordship’s obedient humble servant
194
No.11 Great
Bishopsgate
25th
August 1819
My Lord,
Having
attentively perused the circular issued from your office and being willing to
conform to the terms in every particular I take the liberty of petitioning with
a party of able body’d and industrious men of good
character for your Lordship’s permission to emigrate to the Colony of the Cape of
Good Hope, the party consisting of threshers and labourers who are willing to
make themselves generally usefull when they arrive at
their destination.
If
this should meet your Lordship’s approbation I humbly beg for further
instructions addressed to your Lordship’s obedient humble servant
W.S. FLASHMAN
195/196
11
Great St.Helens
26th
August 1819
My Lord,
Having
missed to send a schedule of the names &c of the party connected with my
petition I have taken the liberty of forwarding it for your Lordship’s
inspection.
I remain your Lordship’s humble obedient servant
W.S. FLASHMAN
Abstract of Names, Ages, Profession &c of people
connected with the petition of W.S. FLASHMAN
|
Name |
Age |
Profession |
Place of
Residence |
No. in
Family |
|
W.S. FLASHMAN |
27 |
Carpenter |
11 Gt.St.Helens |
Wife 2 children |
|
Jos. OLIVER |
33 |
Gardener |
|
“ 2
“ |
|
Jno.
ARMSTRONG |
29 |
Labouring Agriculturalist |
|
“ 2
“ |
|
Jno. EATOR |
30 |
Shoemake |
|
“ 2
“ |
|
Jas. CRAWFORD |
24 |
Shoemaker |
|
“ 2
“ |
|
Jno. ASTELL |
31 |
Smith |
|
“ 2
“ |
|
Geo. GRIFFITHS |
29 |
Bricklayer |
|
“ 2
“ |
|
Wm. MILLS |
30 |
Gardener |
|
“ 2
“ |
|
Jno. |
27 |
Bricklayer |
|
“ 1
“ |
|
Jno. SHUTTLE |
25 |
Labourer |
|
“ 2
“ |
|
Thos. OLIVER |
31 |
Carpenter |
|
“ 2
“ |
|
Fs. BEDFORD |
36 |
Farmer & Wheelwright |
Williams rents, |
“ 2
“ |
|
Rd. BROCKWELL |
34 |
Carpenter & Farmer |
|
Widower 2 children |
|
Jas. WEST |
27 |
Mill wright |
|
“ 2 “ |
|
Jno. CABLE |
30 |
Labouring Agriculturalist |
Plaistow, Essex |
Wife 2 children |
|
|
|
|
|
Childrens
ages all under 14 |
238
No.11 Great
Bishopsgate
December 27th
1819
My Lord,
Having
already applied for the bounty held out to emigrants to the
Your Lordship’s obedient humble servant
W.S. FLASHMAN
NB I must beg to intrude upon your Lordship’s notice
that I served two years in the peninsula in the Commissariat Department but
whether it will have any weight in my favor I must
leave to your Lordship’s better judgement.
FLAXMAN, Joseph
199
August 26th
1819
Honourable Sir,
As
a party of peple as wishes for to agree ten the
number of familys to go to his Majesty Settlement at
the Cape of Good Hope will be glad of a coppy of the
agreement which will grately oblight
Sir
Your most obedient humble servant
Joseph FLAXMAN
FLINN, Daniel
247
Oct 29th 1819
Honourable
Sir,
I have made application
this morning to a Mr. SMITH of
Direct for Daniel FLINN
Ancoats
lane
248
I do hereby
certify that Daniel
FLINN is a stout healthful able bodied
man.
Jas.DUCKWORTH
Rd. BRAITHWATE
FLINTER, E.S.
241
Sherbrook lodge
23rd October 1819
Sir,
As a number of pensioners from the army have expressed a
wish to emigrate to the
I have the honour to be Sir, your most obt. humble servant
E S FLINTER
Lieut. H P
97th Regt.
P. S. I
know a young clergyman of the established church who would wish to go with the
settlers as a chaplain.
FLOWER,
Richard
156
Borough
Aug 2nd
1819
Sir,
I
shall feel obliged if you will send me the particulars of the terms respecting
persons going out to the
I remain your obed’t sev’t
Rich’d
FLOWER
Messrs Marsden & Prustler
Hop & Seed Merchants
No.7
Borough
190
August 18th
1819
My Lord,
In
answer to your letter dated 3 inst I shall be obliged by your information
stating if we shall be allowed to take out with us a small quantity of sheep to
the
My
Lord, from the report I saw in one of the papers yesterday ploughs &c are
to be bought as cheap at the
Your Lordship’s most obed’t
humble serv’t
Rd FLOWER
Late of the Hop Pole Inn
Ollerton
Notts
FONE, George
169
Henbury
Near
Gloucestershire
Aug 7 1819
My Lord,
I
hope your Lordship will forgive the liberty I have taken in addressing this to
you. I am not certain the application I am about to make should be made direct
to your Lordship but my residing in the country so far from the Metropolis I
hope will be an excuse. I have heard it is the intention of Government to send
out persons to the
I am yr Lordship’s most hbl svt
George FONE
FOORD, William
213
No.7 Clarks
Buildings
Snow Hill
Rec’d August
27 1819
Sir,
Taking
the liberty of addressing a line of wich I hope your
Honour will pardon the cause for the same is for intelligence concerning the
Your most humble servant
Will’m FOORD
FOOT, Robert
119
Crigwa
Cardigan
22 July 1819
My Lord,
Having
observed that it is the intention of his Government to encourage the surplus clas of the labouring people of this country who were
willing to emigrate to the
I beg
leave to say that I have a small allowance of half pay from his Majesty’s
Government of 2d per diem. Previous to my having the good fortune to serve his
Majesty my pursuits were that of agriculture and likewise since the year of
1800. I beg to say that I am desirous to take myself and family to the above
place if the Government will be pleased to give me an employment. The favour of
an answer is requested.
I have the honor to be my
Lord
Your Lordship’s most obedient humble servant
Rob’t FOOT
PS Upwards of four hundred people have emigrated I
suppose to the
FORBES,
William
242
23 Oct 1819
My Lord,
Myself and about sixty of my friends and neighbours have it
in contemplation to go out and settle at the
Please direct the answer as under care of george STEWART Esq,
I am my Lord your Lordshi’s
most obedient servant
William FORBES
FORD,
Edward (see also correspondence of Rev.Henry
GODDARD filed under G)
236
Deverill Longbridge
Oct 12 1919
Sir,
As four of the families who sent
their names in the first list you received from me have refused to go to the
Cape of Good Hope with me and having but two others to supply their places
whose names are entered on the three last lists; I beg leave to inform you that
there is another family that desires to go with me, and it is my desire that
they should. Their Names, Age and
Description are as follows.
Joseph RALPH
27 Labourer
Elizabeth his wife 28
Joseph RALPH their son 3
Mary RALPH their dtr. 9 months
Joseph RALPH residing in the parish of Deverill
Longbridge is an Out Pensioner of the Royal Hospital Greenwich has Ten Pounds
per annum his number on Pension List is 925.
Please to word as soon as possible whether he will be permitted to go or
not and if he is whether it will be necessary to advance any money to
Government on his account or not. He
does not know what to do about making application to
Your Humble
Servant
Ed. FORD
251
Longbridge Deverill Wilts.
15 Dec 1819
Sir
As I have been expecting an order to
remove ever since the deposit money was sent I beg leave to inform you that
both myself and the persons proceeding to the Cape of Good Hope under my
direction are labouring under very great
disadvantages having sold all that we have to sell and given notice to quit our
Houses and given up our Labour we are distressed very much and shall be a great
deal mores so if we cannot be remov’d soon as we must
quit our houses. Two Companies in this
neighbourhood having received Orders to Go to
Edward FORD
At Address E. Ford Longbridge Deverill near Warminster Wilts.
256
26 of Dec. 1819
Sir,
In consequence of illness James CROFTS
one of the persons proceeding to the Cape of Good Hope under my direction is
prevented from going and Robert MILES has engaged to go in lieu of him and
has come to Portsmouth with his family he is by trade a weaver aged 27 yrs his
Wife Ann is 20 yrs and William their son 2 yrs having stated his case to the
agent of the Transports I was directed by him to make application to you as
soon as possible. I therefore humbly
request you to send an order that he may be received and admitted to receive
provisions and privileges equal with the rest and I beg leave to inform you
that James DICKS’
sen. Wife has since we advanced the Deposit been brought to bed with a Son
whose name is John which we humbly request you to make provision for and return
us our Instructions for guidance as soon as possible In so doing you will
greatly oblige
Your humble
servant
Edward FORD
FORD,
James Edward
113
Brooksby’s Walk
Homerton
16th July 1819
Sir
I take the liberty of addressing you
to request the necessary information respecting the intentions of Government in
favour of Emigrants to the
I am not aware whether it be
necessary in this first application to state my circumstances & reasons for
wishing to avail myself of this intention, but it may not be deemed premature
to say this much – that in consequence of the total failure of the business in
which I have from some time been engaged and the pressure of a large family of
seven children whom I can no longer support here, altho’
I have made every effort for that purpose, I am at length compelled either to
depend for support on the assistance of others or to seek independence by the
method now offered.
If my present mode of application is
incorrect, I trust I shall be favor’d with
instructions in what manner to repeat it in order to obtain the earliest
information.
I have the
honor to remain, Sir, your most obedient servant
J E FORD
148
Brooksby’s Walk
Homerton
29th July 1819
Sir,
I have been favored with your
circular of the inst respecting the intended settlement at the Cape of Good
Hope and I beg leave to say that I have no doubt of being able to comply with
the terms therein stated as far as regards the number and description of the
persons to be taken out, to entitle me to the proposed grant of 1,000 acres.
In addition to the sums required to
be deposited for each individual or family I think I may safely calculate on
being able to raise a further capital of from £400 to £500 which I trust will
be considered sufficient to render my proposal eligible.
I hope it will not be considered
intrusive or premature my submitting inclosed a few
queries which naturally suggest themselves & to which I beg the favor of
your reply, not for my own satisfaction alone but to enable me to inform those
with whom I am now in treaty to accompany me, in the event of my proposals
being accepted.
May I also add that, if necessary, I
can produce the most undoubted testimonials of the respectability of my
character and a strong recommendation to W. ELLIS, Colonial Secretary at the
Should there be any part of my
proposals not sufficiently explanatory or not exactly agreeing with the
intentions of Government it may be in my power on being acquainted therewith to
add to them what will be necessary to render them eligible.
I have the
honor to remain, Sir
Your most
obedient servant
J.E. FORD
FORD, Samuel
127
No.7
July 25 1819
My Lord,
We
the undersigned having heard that His Majesty’s ministers is about to encourage
persons wishing to emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope we have taken the liberty
of addressing your Lordship to know if the business is under your care. If not
we should take it as a favour to let us know how we can make applycation, and if not intruding to much on your goodness
to let us know the particulars
Samuel FORD
James BROWN
George GLOVER
FORD,
William
163
No.4
Bunhill
Row
Aug 4 1819
Dear Sir,
Wishing
to join the Party that intends emigrating to the
I am your humble servant
William FORD
FORRESTER,
Richard
146
Burslem
29th
July 1819
Sir,
Availing
ourselves of the advantages we may receive from the circular letter which
Government houlds out to those who which [wish] to
emigrate we beg leave to offer our services to the colony of the
We are Sir your obedient servants
Please direct to Richard FORRESTER, weelright and farmer
Burslem
near
Staffordshire
[in GOULBURN’s
hand at foot: his proposal not conforming to the circular cannot be considered]
FORRESTER,
Thomas
165
Tarts Court
6th
Aug 1819
May it please your Royal Highness
The humble petition of Thomas FORRESTER humbly sheweth
That Yr R Highness’s petitioner has served on
Peninsula in the 82nd Regiment of Foot for the space of 3 years and
89 days and was discharged from the above regiment on the 6th day of
February last 1819 at the Hospital Kilmainham at 6d
per diem and was then about 28 years of age for Rupture and Yr R Highness’s
petitioner seeing the R Proclamation for the encouragement of Yr R Highness’s
subjects wishes to extend his services to the Cape of Good Hope having a Wife
and Child, and Yr R Highness’s petitioner is willing to give up his Pension
provided Yr R Highness will be graciously pleased to cause some allotment to be
granted to Yr R Highness’s petitioner which would enable him to provide a small
subsistence when arrived at the Place of Distanation
for himself and small Family being incapable of procuring any at present only
what is allowed me from the R Hospital and leaves my case to Yr R Highness’s
most gracious consideration in hopes of Yr R Highness causing Information to be
given how Yr R Highness’s petitioner is to proceed and Yr R Highness’s
petitioner as in duty bound will ever Pray
Thomas FORRESTER
FORWORD, William
188
Trowbridge
Wiltshire
Aug 19 1819
May it please your Lordship
Your humble petitioner have heard that your
Lordship hath been pleased to [offer?] your official documents respecting
forming a new settlement at Algoa Bay on the coast of Africa and that it is
your Lordship’s will and pleasure to have ten familys
formed in one company together to answer your Lordship’s purpose. Your humble
petitioner is
requested by nine able men and self fathers of familys to address your Lordship humbly praying to have the
aforesaid documents to form an accurate judgement how to proceed according to
your Lordship’s will and pleasure
With prayers of your Lordship’s most humble and
devoted servant
William FORWORD
FOTHERGILL,
J
232
Belper
Derbyshire
October 18th
1819
My Lord,
I
hope you will pardon the liberty I thus take in addressing your Lordship but
being an officer on the half pay of the late 97th regiment and
having served in the army more than sixteen years, four of which on the
Peninsula under the command of His Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON, and my friends
during that period having died, I feel desirous of emigrating to the new
settlement about to be established on the cost of Africa and hope your Lordship
will condescend to inform me if there should be any objection on the part of
Government to that effect and if not whether a passage would be granted and on
my arrival if my half-pay would be insured to me.
I have the honour to be your Lordship’s most obedient
and very humble servant
J. FOTHERGILL
Lieut. late 97th Regt
FOWLER,
Robert
161
Aug 3 1819
Sir,
I
have heard that there are a great many Famleys a
going to Emigrants to the
Sir I remain your humble servant
Rob’t FOWLER
Please to direct to
FOWLER,
William (1)
123
Spa Fields
29th
July 1819
Sir,
Permit
me to request you will be kind enough to order one of the printed circulars to
be sent me relative to the Emigration to the
I have the honour to be Sir
Your obedient servant
Wm. FOWLER
FOWLER,
William (2)
July 31st
1819
Honoured Sir,
Having
heard that his Majesty’s Government intended to send settlers to the
I am your Honour’s obedient humble servant
Wm FOWLER
c/o Christopher
GOLLEY
Globe Road
Bethnall
Green
FOWLER,
William (3)
237
Bramwith
Near
16th
October 1819
My Lord,
Being
informed that his Majesty’s Government is desirous of sending persons over to
the
I am my Lord your devoted hbl
st
William FOWLER
FRANCIS,
David Polley
152
13 Assembly Row
Laytonston
July 13, 1819
Sir,
As Colonel STRUTT has advised me to call upon you, I take the liberty
to solicit an interview, as there is several points I wish for
information upon (if I go out to the Cape of Good Hope) before I could make any
arrangement for that purpose, therefore I should be extreemly
obliged by a communication to say when I could have the Honor of seeing you and
at what hour.
I am Sir,
your obedient humble Servant
D.P. FRANCIS
201
26 August 1819
Sir,
I duly received your letter of the 5th Instant in which you
requested me to transmit to you in writing, a memorandum of those p0ints
connected with emegration to the Cape of Good Hope in
which I was desirous of obtaining information upon, the reason of my not
complying with that request is that I wish to give as little trouble as
possible and being aware that arrangements where makeing
by some persons (which I conceived more competent than myself to solicit
information from Government and which I understand are or will be made public I
am induced to rest entirely sattisfied with the
information obtained by those means and am only anxious to assertain
as early as convenient if I shall be accepted by complying with the mode
Government has adopted, I have little doubt of being able to take out as many
men as I wish for, from this part of the Country some with familys
and all very good agreculturists. I am quite unconected with any person or meetings that have been held
respecting this business and rely interely upon my
early application and the recommendation of Colonel STRUTT.
I have only two questions to ask, first if there will be any measure adopted by
Government to secure the men taken out by individuals, that they may not be
seduced from them by other persons, or whither the person taken them out must
secure them himself before he leaves this country, secondly whither conveyance
will be given for a small quantity of live stock.
I am Sir,
your obedient humble servant
D.P. FRANCIS
Address Beckingham Hall, Maldon,
221
Laytonstone
Sept 20th 1819
Sir,
I had the honour to receive your
letter of the 31st ultimo which refers me to the circular which states that the
plan Government has adopted for the settlers who are allowed to proceed to the
Cape of Good Hope - allso that no proposal can be
accepted which is not made in conformity with that offer - it was my intention
to have made a return to your department often persons -whom I had selected to
proceed with me, and who are agriculture labourers as
my wish is the cultivation of land being brought up a practical agriculturist
though I have been for some years a ship owner and trust that I know something
of mercantile concerns, this plan I have found great difficulty in carrying
into effect, in as much that I find no agreement I can enter into in this
country can be relyed upon with safety and advantage
to both parties when arrived at the place of destination, therefore I have
connected myself and party with Doctor BARUK and
friends whose respectability and society I am so much attached to that I can
only hope and solicit to be allowed to proceed with him, and am ready to
conform to all the conditions Government may require as well as make my self of
service as pointed out in Col STRUTT’s introductory
letter.
I have the honour to be sir, your obedient servant
D P FRANCIS
253
Ship East Indian
Deptford
December 24, 1819
Sir,
In
consequence of the death of Henry HUNT, one of the intended settlers proceeding
to the Cape of Good Hope under direction of William PARKER Esquire (who has
entrusted the care of Settlers to me from London to Cork) I therefore request
the Honour to be informed if any other person may not
be placed in his room, of the name of William NORMAN 36 years of age, Jane his
wife 33, Maria his daughter 8 years of age. There is also several others who
have declined going the names of which I will produce at the Colonial
Department on Monday -
together with those names I propose to introduce in their room - there s allso some errors in the list which I should be obliged by
having corrected - I expect the East Indian will be ready to moove down the river on Tuesday morning.
I have the Honour to be Sir, your obedient humble servant
D. P. FRANCIS
FRANKLIN,
William
192
No.13
Leister
Square
Aug 21 1819
My Lord,
I
most humbly beg leave to address your Lordship on the following subject,
understanding that grants of land are giving by Government to such of his
Majesty’s subjects as may be thought deserving and have a wish to go and settle
at the Cape of Good Hope. I most humbly beg to lay before your Lordship’s
notice that I have served his Majesty eight years during the last war in the
Royal Marines, two years and a half of which I served in British North America
in the Canadas on the Lakes &c and as I have been
given to understand that Government give a grant of land in Canada to those who
having served in that country who make application for it, I should be most
humbly thankful to your Lordship to be informed if I can obtain a grant by
means of my servitude as above, either at the Cape or in Canada. I beg further
to state to your Lordship I have a wife and two children and that I can produce
certificates as to my Behaviour in the Service and give every satisfaction of
character since I quited it. Trusting your Lordship
will be pleased to favour me with an answer I subscribe myself
Your Lordship’s very humble and obedient servant
William FRANKLIN
FRANKS,
Edward [NB these letters are extremely faint]
103
Library
March 4 1819
Sir,
I took
the liberty of addressing a letter to you under date of the 28 ult requesting
the favor of intelligence relative to the Colony at
the
I am Sir your humble servant
Edw. FRANKS
105
April 16
1819
My Lord,
I am
deputed by two families residing in Sussex, of one I am a member, to apply to
your Lordship requesting to know whether in the event of the approval of the
applicants a grant of land in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope could be
obtained in the neighbourhood of Knysna or of Plettenberg Bay, capable of settlers as above and
sufficiently supplied with wood & water and on the conditions mentioned by
H. GOULDBURN Esq in a letter dated March 1818 and
published in the Times Newspaper September 5 following.
The
families who meditate a removal from this country are both versed in
agricultural affairs. The head of one, my father Edward FRANKS Sen’r is owner & occupier of a Farm in the parish of Burwash in the County of Sussex of whom your Lordship may
hear of at Messrs WILLIS PERCEVAL of 76 Lombard Street, with whom he has handled
many years and of Mr BACKRUP?, Linen Draper, Holborn.
The
other family, whose name is GORRINGE, also reside in
Sussex and will give references and will state with my father every particular
that may be deemed necessary if it be found the spot they consider desirable is
not yet fully settled & that land may be obtained in the vicinity of Knysna or Plettenberg Bay capable
of cultivation and supplied with wood and well water.
The
families have determined on the expediency of leaving
Should
your Lordship’s answer be favorable and the means
pointed out by which they may attain what they wish, immediate steps will be
taken to apply them. Trusting to your Lordship’s goodness for early
intelligence
I have the honour to be my Lord
Your Lordship’s most obed’t sev’t
Edward FRANKS Jun’r
107
April 27
1819
My Lord,
On
the 16 inst I took the liberty of addressing your Lordship on the part of two
families requesting to know whether a grant of land could be obtained in the
neighbourhood of the Knysna or of Plettenberg
Bay, in the Colony at the Cape of Good Hope, sufficiently supplied with wood
& with water, adapted for agriculture, and on the conditions mentioned by
H. GOULDBURN Esq in a letter dated March 1818.
As
the latter enquiry is vague I now solicit to make an extract from the letter
above alluded to. “Lord BATHURST is however ready to
receive proposals from any persons willing to undertake in person or by their
agents the cultivation of a large grant of land either at the Cape of Good Hope
or in the North American provinces, under the following conditions. Such grant
will only be made to those who can engage to take out and locate upon the land
granted ten settlers at the least; and the quantity of land granted in each
case will be in the proportion of 100 acres for every settler proposed to be
taken out. In order to prevent any evasion of this condition the person
applying for a grant of land will be required to pay down a sum at the rate of
ten pounds for every settler, which sum will be repaid to him so soon after his
arrival in the colony as the settlers shall have been located upon the land
assigned. I am only further to acquaint you that in case of your being willing
to undertake the cultivation of land, either at the Cape of Good Hope or in
North America, and in the event of your proposal being approved by his Lordship
a grant of land will be made free of expense and the necessary tonnage will be
provided for the conveyance of yourself or your agent and the settlers whom you
have engaged to accompany you. The expense of victualling
the settlers will be defrayed by yourself”
March 1818 (Signed) H. GOULDBURN
Should
the conditions still be held out, without there be
land as before described, your Lordship permitting application will be made for
two grants of land of 1000 acres each. Respectfully soliciting your Lordship to
direct a reply to be made
I have the honour to be my Lord
Your Lordship’s very obedient servant
Edw’d FRANKS Jun’r
109
April 30
1819
Sir,
I beg
to acknowledge the favor of your letter of the 29th
inst by which I understand that grants of land in the colony at the
I am
still ignorant in respect to a material object of enquiry in my two letters to
his Lordship, which was to ascertain whether the advantages held out by
yourself in a letter dated March 1818 & published in the Times Newspaper of
Sept 5 (an extract of which I inserted in my second letter of the 27th)
were still afforded. Viz to those who engaged to cultivate these grants of land
it would be apportioned to them free from expense at the rate of 100 acres for
every settler proposed to be taken out, and that tonnage would be provided for
the government for the conveyance of the settlers though the charge for victualling would be defrayed by the person obtaining the
grant. May I therefore take the liberty of again requesting information on this
head.
I
feel reluctant to intrude myself on your more important [assertions?] but by in
excuse to say my applications for intelligence are far from dictated by idle
comments. The determination to quit the country is fixed and it is only now
deliberated where to remove to, the wish prevailing ever to be able to claim
the protection of the government under which we first knew truth.
I have the honour to be Sir your obed’t
sev’t
Edw’s FRANKS Jun’r
[in clerk’s hand: the general
arrangement held out in the letter referred to is no longer in force]
FRANKS, John
136
Thursday
July 28 1819
Gentlemen,
In consequence your letter dated
Secretary’s Office respecting the sending of people to the Cape of Good Hope
the write himself a youth of 19 years of age begs leave to offer his services
for one of the same. A line addressed to John FRANKS,
Your most obt humble servant
John FRANKS
FRANTZ,
Christopher
207
August 1819
The humble petition of Christopher FRANTZ, late of his
Majesty’s Life Guards, humbly sheweth
That he has served for the space of nine years as a
soldier with the British Army as a private and uncommissioned
officer both in Europe and America and is likewise received three wounds during
that time in the service and is now discharged on reduction; has a wife and
three children unprovided for, that he is out off
employment these eleven months past and has disposed of all that he possessed
for the support of his distressed family. Your petitioner has made application
before about two years ago and has received the enclosed answer but in
consequence of not getting a passage, being necessited
to enter again in the service namely in His Majesty’s Life Guards from which he
is now discharged. Your humble petitioner therefore begs that his Lordship may
be graciously pleased to appoint him as one of the settlers in the Cape of Good
Hope as he considers himself quite capable for the cultivation of land should
it meet the approbation of his Lordship to take the misfortune of his
distressed family in his consideration to favour him with an answer that his
proposal may be granted. Your petitioner will procure the sum of ten pounds
from one of his friends immediately by producing his Lordship’s answer and not
without.
He will be in duty bound shall ever pray
Christopher FRANTZ
c/o Mr. LITTLE,
List of 10 Men who wish to embark for the
|
Thomas BOSLEY |
Aged 33 |
2 children |
|
|
William WILLIAMS |
Aged 30 |
1 child |
|
|
Charles QUINNELL |
Aged 24 |
2 children |
|
|
Christopher
FRANCE [sic] |
Aged 29 |
3 children |
Recommended by His Royal Highness the Duke of |
|
Thomas DWYRE |
Aged 28 |
2 children |
|
|
Rd EVANS |
Aged 22 |
None |
|
|
Rd SELBY |
Aged 24 |
None |
|
|
Wm TEGARTHER |
Aged 26 |
None |
|
|
Robt
GREY |
Aged 29 |
3 children |
|
|
|
Aged 30 |
None |
|
The above humbly solicit from H. GOULBURN
Esq an answer directed to Christopher FRANTZ, No 2 Clean Alley,
Address of each
|
Thos BOSLEY |
No.27 Noel
Court, Noel Street, Bermondsey New Road |
|
Wm
WILLIAMS |
Do. |
|
Chas QUINNELL |
Do. |
|
Christopher FRANTZ |
No.2 Clean
Alley, |
|
Thos.
DWYER |
|
|
Rd EVANS |
|
|
Rd SELBY |
|
|
Wm TEGARTHER |
Do. |
|
Robt
GREY |
|
|
|
|
FRASER,
James (1)
216
St.Lukes
11 September
1819
My Lord,
I beg
leave to submit to the approbation of your Lordship the ten individuals
hereunder mentioned with whom I am ready to proceed to the new colony forming
at the Cape of Good Hope, according to the conditions prescribed by Government
and signified in your Lordship’s circular, which is now before me. Waiting the
further orders of your Lordship I have the honour to be
Your Lordship’s most humble and most obedient servant
James FRASER
|
Names of
Married |
Names of
Unmarried |
Profession |
Age |
Number of
Children under 14 |
Number of
Children above 14 |
|
|
James FRASER |
|
21 |
|
|
|
|
James BEDDINGTON |
Agriculuralist |
|
|
|
|
Isaac WILKINS |
|
Coppersmith |
24 |
|
|
|
Joseph ADAMS |
|
Butcher Bred a Farmer |
29 |
|
|
|
Thomas SLOANE |
|
Farmer |
30 |
Three |
|
|
Peter FINCH |
|
Smith |
27 |
Two |
|
|
Thomas NECKEN? |
|
Farmer |
35 |
Two |
|
|
John STENT |
|
Carpenter |
26 |
Two |
|
|
|
Robert GORE |
Farmer |
21 |
|
|
|
|
Fred MORRITT |
Carpenter |
23 |
|
|
|
John CHARLTON |
|
Farmer |
22 |
|
|
FRASER,
James (2)
218
Findon
by
Sept 14th
1819
My Lord,
I was
duly honoured by receipt of your Lordship’s letter in answer to mine respecting
the grant of land given by Government to officers in the Army and Navy and took
the liberty to put some queries to Mr. H. GOULBURN
your Lordship, to which I have not been favoured with an answer. I consequently
suppose my letter never reached him. They were as follows. Whether the grounds
granted were held on the same footing as a hereditary estate in Great Britain
and if those officers going out were permitted to take out settlers with them
as sub tenants, and if it was in the Governor’s power to place you where he
might think proper or if the grants of land were drawn in the form of a Lottery
and last of all what Documents were necessary to take from Europe with you as
vouchers that your claim was properly founded. In hopes I shall be honoured
with an answer to this as early as possible, I remain my Lord with the highest
respect
Your most obed’t servant
James FRASER
Lt. Royal Navy
FRASER, John
171
No.2
August 9th
1819
My Lord,
Observing
by the Public Prints that it is the intention of His Majesty’s Government to
permit any of His Majesty’s Subjects to emigrate under certain conditions to
Southern Africa where land will be given to them on their arrival to locate
themselves, I have taken the freedom of writing to your Lordship respectfully
to enquire whether a half-pay officer with a wife & family who had procured
leave of absence would be permitted to proceed to settle at the Cape under more
favourable conditions than those promised to others of His Majesty’s Subjects
who may not have served their country & whether the carrying out of “Ten
able bodied individuals above the age of 18 years” would be dispensed with.
Such H Pay officer having merely wherewith to enable him to purchase a few
necessary implements of husbandry & to maintain his family & one servant
as labourer until the period had arrived for the gathering of the first crop
raised by his exertions.
I
humbly beg your Lordship’s pardon for this intrusion & have the honour to
remain my Lord
Your Lordship’s most obed’t
humble sev’t
John FRASER
1st Lieut Royal
Marines
FRASER,
Robert
115
Walkers
Hotel No.10
14 July 1819
Sir,
You
may remember perhaps my name being introduced to you many years ago by Mr.
Hawkins BROWNE as attending to public improvements in agriculture and the fisheries.
I am desirous of being more fully informed regarding the plan for colonising
the lands at the
I remain Sir
You most obedient and very humble servant
Rob FRASER
FRASER,
William
205
St Luke's
May it
please Your Lordship
The Humble
Representation and Petition of William FRASER
Sheweth 1st
- That in the years 1798-9 I, the said William FRASER, twice traversed the extent
of country from Cape Town to the Great Fish River, (the boundary of Caffraria).
- that, in that space, I was successively at
- that
being there a bombardier in the 1st Batt’n Royal
Regt. of Artillery, under the command of Sir Francis DUNDAS
and attached to the Commissariat Department under Deputy Commissary General
PRINGLE - I, the said William FRASER, became thoroughly acquainted with the
state, situation and resources of the country, and in a great [measure] with
the names and language of the native Boers, the Hottentots, and the Caffres.
Further: -
that the fertility of the soil, the quality of the water, the salubrity of the climate and various other advantages in
the neighbourhood of Algoa Bay, drew my attention particularly to that spot,
and I even then was struck with the appropriateness of the situation for
establishing a Colony; and I would, long ere now, (had not my Duty in the
Regiment prevented me) have gone to the Cape of Good Hope with a view of settling
at Algoa Bay.
Further: -
that I am now desirous of proceeding there according to the plan arranged by
government and can say without ostentation that I would be generally useful to
the Colony, and I am ready to make myself so, under the directions of Government
if required.
Further: -
that in the year 1817, I was discharged from the Regiment (being then a
sergeant at the East India College, Addiscombe, and
having been nineteen years a non-commissioned officer) with a pension of thirty
pounds per annum - which united with all my efforts, proves inadequate for the
support of my family, consisting of a stout useful lad of 14 years, and five
younger children.
Lastly: -
that nine respectable heads of families are willing to join with me, to form
the number ordered by Government, - the most part of whom are agriculturalists,
2 coppersmiths and one blacksmith.
The Petition[er].
Humbly
assures your Lordship that certificates of sobriety, steadiness and general
good character can be obtained from the different officers under whom I have
from time to time been employed – and.
Implores
your Lordship to condescend to inform me, the said William FRASER, whether (as
has been allowed to foreigners in His Majesty's service, and retiring to their
native country) four or five years of my pension, might not be paid down, for
the comfortable removal of my family to, and establishment at Algoa Bay - on
condition of my forfeiting all future claims on Government.
Unprompted
and unassisted, I have presumed to address your Lordship, and your Lordship's
petitioner humbly requests the sentiments of your Lordship on the subject.
I have the
honor to be my Lord
Your
Lordship's most obedient & most humble servant
William
FRASER
[In clerk’s
hand]
Enclosed circular. Added
that his application for a commutation of his pension must be addressed to
Treasury.
To Lord
Viscount SIDMOUTH
FREELING, J.C. re John
SMITH
249
To[R] PENN
Esq
November 22.
Dear Sir
Some time since I left at your office the papers of a person
of the name "John SMITH" whose case you were good enough
to hear me explain. He is upon the point
of sailing for the
I am my
dear Sir
Faithfully
yours
J. C. FREELING
FREEMAN,
William
226
Irthlingborough
29 Sep’t 1819
My Lord
Since an emigration to the
I have a wife and two children and as the former is rather
timid at the thought of the voyage, and the prospect of procuring a subsistance for the first few months; I have taken the
liberty to ask of your Lordship that information which a remote country village
will not afford.
I think some explanation of myself necessary as an apology
for the liberty I take in addressing your Lordship. I bore a commission for three years prior to
the peace of 1802 in the 1st West York Militia at that time commanded by Lord
FITZWILLIAM, and in the interval of peace I went into business which did not
succeed and now I keep a school which will not keep me. I shall be able to take with me two or three
hundred pounds. The honor of an early
reply will much oblige
Your Lordship's
most obedient servant
William
FREEMAN
Qn 1st.
Can my family be accommodated with a passage free of expense to the intended
settlement, and take with us necessary furniture?
2. Can we
be sure of the grant of 100 acres of land upon the terms stated?
3. Can we
purchase provision at or near the intended settlement until the first crop be
fit for use; or will it be necessary to provide ourselves from this country?
4. Can we
take 1 or two other families paying in every case the required deposit, and in
that case will each head of a family be accommodated with 100 acres of land?
5. Is any time or times, place or places fixed for embarcation?
Please to
direct
W. FREEMAN
School
Master
Irthlingborough
near Higham Ferrers
Northamptonshire
FREEMANTLE, Jonathan
131
No. 4 Smiths Arms Place
Whitechapel
Sir
Having observed by the public newspapers that his Majesty's
Government are pleased to offer a free passage to
persons willing to emigrate to the
I beg leave to state that I am desirous of availing myself
of it and that I am a hatter by trade with a wife and four children and that we
are named and aged as follows, viz
|
Jonathan FREEMANTLE aged |
46 years |
|
Sarah FREEMANTLE |
34 |
|
John |
14 |
|
Sarah |
10 |
|
James |
6 |
|
Mary |
2 |
I beg leave further to state that I have been eight years in
his Majesty's navy and that during the above period I have been on board the
Hawke Captains BARTON & BOWEN and on board the Dryad Lord BEAUCLERK and was discharged from the service at the peace
of Ameins.
I have worked at my business since I left the Navy but in
consequence of the general depression in trade I am not now able to get any
work and I trust therefore you will consider that I am a proper person to be
sent to the Cape and entitled to the encouragement offered.
I remain
Sir
Your most obed hble st
Jon. FREEMANTLE
FRENCH,
George
186
Hackney
Sir
The undernamed individuals wishes to
procede as settlers to the
I remain
Sir your obedient and most humble servent
George
FRENCH
To be left
Mrs GARDENERs
Maremaid, hackney.
|
George
FRENCH |
aged |
22 |
Single |
Gardener |
|
Charles
EDWARDS |
Do. |
19 |
Do. |
Gardener |
|
Samuel WILDSMITH |
Do. |
21 |
Do. |
Gardener |
|
Charles NEAVES |
Do. |
23 |
Do. |
Cooper |
|
Daniel CHALLARD |
Do. |
23 |
Do. |
Baker |
|
William RAFFEY |
Do. |
20 |
Do. |
Labourer |
|
Charles
HUNT |
Do. |
19 |
Do. |
Labourer |
|
Thomas
CAPPER |
Do. |
21 |
Do. |
Coomb maker |
|
James
CAPPER |
Do. |
20 |
Do. |
Baker |
|
James
DAVID |
Do. |
19 |
Do. |
Furrier |
FRIEDEBERG, Benjamin
117
Aldgate
July 20th, 1819
Honorable
Sir
In consequence of a public communication respecting the
emigrating to the Cape of Good Hope I am requested to state for the
consideration of your honor that numbers of loyal families of good character
are desirous of embracing the opportunity offered should they be deemed
eligible and to have it in their power to comply with the deposits required and
others have small capital independent of the required deposits. Under these circumstances I humbly beg leave
to submit the following questions which I hope you will be pleased to
condescend to cause to be answered in the most explicit manner as the nature of
the enquiries will admit of.
Description of one family independent of such others who appear to be
desirous of uniting in the embarkation.
Qn 1st.
A husband aged 44 wife 40 son 21 daughter 18 daughter 17 daughter 13 son 12 son
9 being 8 in number and two or 3 relatives of proper ages in order to make up
at least 10 in number independant of other families.
Qn 2nd.
On the landing of such families in what manner are they to be supplied with
habitations provisions implements utensils seed for cultivation livestock to
produce increase also materials for erecting habitations etc. and by whom and
in what manner and when are the same to be paid for if some of said families
have not any capital for defraying such expenses should the same be absolutely
necessary.
Qn 3rd. Will the persons who so embark be restricted
to cultivation who may not posses the knowledge or arts of tradesmen such as
Carpenters Bricklayers Smiths Coopers Lawyers and other handicrafts etc or will
such be permitted to barter with such capital which may not be required to the
appropriation of cultivation.
Qn 4th. Is it practicable for the several united
families to have allotments granted as near to each other as possible in order
to promote their interest and happiness in a foreign climate as they will be
perhaps deprived of ever associating with their friends or relatives except
those in question on this occasion.
Qn 5th. Will the persons so bringing the land into a
full and proper state of cultivation after the period of a few years have the
sanction of the Governor to dispose of the same to enable him or them to return
to their native soil or to retire on the produce of his labours.
Qn 6th. Should the different persons
applications be approved of and their embarkation ordered what time will be
given them for to prepare for their departure.
Waiting a reply.
In the
interim I am Sir your most obedient humble servant
Benjamin FRIEDEBERG
FROST, George
220
The Punch
Bowl
Spring
Street
Sept 15 1819
Sir,
Whe have sent to know the witch way whe
are to presede to the
George FROST aged 19 years Do. wife
James COCKAYNE aged 35 years
Do. wife & 2 ch
Samuel COLEMAN aged 38 Do. wife
& 4 ch
John BROOKFIELD aged 22 Do. wife
& 3 ch
George FROST aged 40 Do. wife
Sir, you will please to direct for George FROST in the
Punch Bowl, Spring Street,
FULTON,
Thomas
138
28 July 1819
My Lord,
Having
understood that encouragement is about to be offered to his Majesty’s subjects
to emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope, I beg leave to solicit your Lordship will
be pleased to give necessary orders how I might procure a passage to that
canton for myself, wife and four children. I likewise observe that there is a surtint sum to be depasited
before embarcation according to the famley respectfully but as I am a poor man and out of
employment it is not in my poure to depasit that sum & as I am a British punsionar at 6d pur diam and has served my country faithfully I humble beg your
Lordship will take it in to considrition and direct
such infammation ma be sent me as your Lordship ma
think proper.
I am my Lord
Your Lordship’s humble & obd’t
servant
Thos. FULTON
Late Serj’t 85th
Regiment
PARKER,
William (filed under F)
255
26 Dec 1819
Will’m NORMAN Labourer 36 years of age
Jane
his wife 33 one child Maria 8 yrs of age
In the room of Henry HUNT & his wife
Will’m DOUGLAS Bricklayer 39 years of age
In the room of Jonathan THORNTON
George
HAWKS Ropemaker 21 years of age
In the room of Henry BEAVER
John
JOBSON has no child. May not
Mr. Will’m PARKER
Passage near