CO48/44 National Archives, Kew, London  ~  1820 Settler Correspondence I-O

 

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.

 

KAYE, John

 

172

No.14 Tower Street

Near the Assylum

Westminster Road

July 21st 1819

Sir,

            According to the advertisement in the paper concerning the cultivation of the colony at the Cape of Good Hope i have a great inclination of going there to settle should it meet your approbation to give me any encouragement that by my industry i may maintain a livelyhood for my wife & family which is a young industrious woman 30 years of age & 3 children 2 girls & one boy the oldest girl 10 years the boy 5 years & the young one 2 years of age & myself 35 by trade a carpenter & joiner was brought up as a farmer in the county of Surry have a brother as rents a share of farm now at the same place & if you will acquaint me with your proposials I knows a young man & his wife trade a carpenter no children & a young man a sawyer & his wife & one child & if you want farming men to go i have no dout but i can get plenty that would like to go with me & i should like to know what goods & tools &c we are allowed to take with us & the terms of support when we land on the colony.

I remain your most your most humble servant

Jesse KAYE

Carpenter

 

KEARSLEY, John

 

234

Parish of Liverpool

30th November 1819

My Lord,

            Permit me to enquire whether in the arrangements for conveying persons who wish to embark voluntarily for the Cape of Good Hope one could be made or permitted for a number of male individuals (at present fifty nine) that we have burdensome to the Parish and to which they belong – they are chiefly young men & youths who have no visible means of obtaining a livelihood beyond the miserable pittance derived from the Parish by picking oakrum at one penny per pound – with this they can but barely keep up an existence & after the hours of work they are left to wander about in the evening & too frequently are induced to commit depredations, by which some of them have been repeatedly in the House of Correction – and from the want of friends, connections or trades they are again let loose upon Society.

            This class is composed of good & bad who can receive no effectual relief from the Parish, not being proper objects for our House of Industry, which already contains nearly sixteen hundred, principally composed of the aged, infirm & children. In addition to these we have about three thousand four hundred and twenty families who receive weekly relief at their own homes.

            It has occurred to me that the greater number of the before mentioned individuals might be made useful members in the new colony could employment be marked out for them when arrived there – and I have little doubt they would readily embark, by which they would be saved from more vicious habits & perhaps untimely ends.

            Your Lordship will understand the persons to whom I allude are ignorant of trade or agriculture & that from various causes & circumstances they are in the greatest poverty & distress, without a prospect of being otherwise – good seamen can be obtained at 40/- per month – it naturally follows that these persons have no chance of employment from the Merchants Service. The Parish could not object to contribute towards the expence but the certainty of employment when there will be the object of your Lordships consideration, combined with the wish, as it must be, of softening human woe. Respecting females I forbear to outlay beyond the assurance of their being numbers in great distress from the want of employment. The motive of my troubling your Lordship I trust will secure me an apology for being [obscured] as I am with due respect

Your Lordship’s very ob’t hum serv’t

John KEARSLEY

Churchwarden

 

Draft of GOULBURN’s reply:

I am directed by Lord B to acknowledge rec’t of your letter requesting to be informed whether a number of underclass? in Liverpool who are now burdensome to the parish might not be conveyed to the Cape of Good Hope & there placed in a situation to provide their own maintenance. I have to acquaint you in reply that the number of persons whom it was thought possible conveniently to convey to the Cape colony the present year has been some time since completed. Lord B would feel himself precluded under ordinary circs from giving encouragement to any additional number, but at the same time as the case of the persons stated in your letter is in some degree so peculiar Lord B will have no objection to take into consideration whether it may not be possible to extend the regulations in their favour if you shall be able to procure some respectable person willing & capable of taking charge of them under the regulations laid down in the enclosed printed letter – and if you will transmit to Lord B a statement of the number of persons for whom the parish is desirous of so forwarding. Upon the receipt of this information no time shall be lost in giving you a final decision.

 

KEELER, John

 

196

9 Union Street

Walcot Place

Lambeth

Surry

August 13 1819

My Lord,

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

Your Lordship’s very humble servant

John KEELER

 

KELLETT, Alexander

 

209

Narbeth

Pembrokeshire

30th August 1819

My Lord,

            In having the honor of addressing your Lordship at this present I beg leave to inform your Lordship of my having previous to this application addressed His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief considering it my duty as a military man to do so. With a hope of obtaining His Royal Highness’s permission in thus addressing your Lordship on this subject – and which I hold in the greatest degree of moment in this present, being a military man and unfortunately placed on the half pay of the peace establishment, having nothing but what I derive from that half pay to support my family. I would most gladly comply with any indulgence held out to me that would be the means of removing my present wants, which I am sorry to say are at present numerous, being now like many others (after long and anxious worries) with a family to subsist on a small sallary. I would gladly accept any thing offered me corresponding with my present rank as an officer in His Majesty’s service.

            Having seen in the public prints a proposition made by your Lordship to establish and colonise from this country part of the cape of Good Hope and being acquainted with the country I beg leave to offer myself and services in that line which I trust may induce your Lordship to appoint or recommend me for as any little indulgence of this nature held out to us half pay officers with families would be in the greatest degree a means of removing our present pecuniary circumstances.

            To avoid as much as possible troubling your Lordship with further detail on this subject I have only to add that during my services in the West Indies and four years on the Peninsula, five in the East Indies, in the latter place (Ceylon) I held a distinguished situation in a civil capacity by the appointment of General Sir Robert BROWNRIGG, Governor and Commander of the Forces, which I now beg leave to enclose for the information and satisfaction of your Lordship in my behalf, together with a letter addressed to me on the eve of my departure from that country from Lieutenant Colonel HOOK, my commanding officer, which I sincerely hope your Lordship will honor me in giving with this my application your Lordship’s kind consideration – my means of [movement?] are small and under these circumstances my proposed arrangement of your Lordship in my behalf in this case will I hope be considered, and this with any other reference which may be deemed necessary for your Lordship’s satisfaction I am satisfied in saying will be produced by me.

I have the honor to be

Your Lordship’s most obedient and very humble servant

Alexander KELLETT

Lieut.H.P late 3rd Ceylon Regt.

 

KELLY, Thomas

 

205

Wheat Sheaf

Ewer Steet

Gravel Lain

Southwark

[Received August 1819]

Sir,

            Pardon my liberty in being so bold as to solicit your Honour. I understand there are a number of artificers and labourers about being sent to the Cape of Good Hope by order of Government which urges me to solicit your honourable benevolence for a situation as carpenter and joiner. I have had the honour to be on the Expedition on the Continent under the command of the Duke of WELLINGTON and at the Battle of Waterloo, warented by Earl HULGROVE then Master General of the Ordinance. I have a large family and no imployment to suport them & my hopes is to be able to maintain them on a foreign action and also to promote the services by my integrity and sobriety. My family consists of two sons and two daughters and my wife.

            Whatever the proposals might be I volunteer my services, meeting with your Honour’s aprobation. I hope and trust your Honour will consider me as being in Hs.M. service twelve years and twelve days and was discharged without any benefit, with having undeniable certificates and discharge.

I am Sir your humble solicitor

Thomas KELLY

 

KENNEDY, James

 

218

No.10 Hay Market

Dublin

28th Sept 1819

Hon Sir,

            I beg leave to apply to your Lordship as a person wishing to go out as a settler to the Cape of Good Hope hoping your Lordship will be pleased to grant me the encouragement that is proposed by Government. I have a few hundred pounds and would wish to take a few able men alongst with me. Therefore I will anxiously wait on your Lordship’s answers and time and place of embarkation.

I remain with due respect

Your Lordship’s obed’t humble serv’t

James KENNEDY

 

KENNEDY, Thomas

 

178

25th July 1819

The petition of Thomas KENNEDY, Private in the 97th Regt. Of Foot

Most humbly sheweth

That petit’r has served one year and 46 days in the above reg’t and during that period of service petit’r has lost an eye, that petit’r was admitted a Pensioner of Kilmainham Hospital Dublin at 9d per day and has no other means of support for a wife and two children. Petit’r most humbly hopes yr Lordship will be pleased to order him his passage for himself and family to North America, for which Petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray

 

KENT, R

 

186

21 Hampden Street

Somerstown

August 2nd 1819

My Lord,

            I am induced to address your Lordship as I wish to settle at the Cape of Good Hope in my profession being a Surgeon – and wd wish to know what encouragement I wd meet with from His Majesty’s Government for that purpose. I am an ass’t surgeon in the Royal Navy on half pay with a wife and two children and am well acquainted with the diseases of tropical climates, having served in India, from which I returned in April last.

I have the honor to be my Lord with much respect

Your Lordship’s obedient humble servant

R. KENT

 

KENTISH, Thomas

 

236

No.7 Bonners Street

Green Street

Bethnall Green

Dec 4th 1819

Sir,

            I have been informed that there is some wheelwrights wanted to go to the Cape if so I particular wish to go as it is my particular wish and wifes and families haveing 5 children the eldest 12 the youngest 2 years old, I was the first that began to make part of the 50 ploughs at Mr. GABRIEL’s that is going to the Cape. I understand wheelwright work in all its branches such as carts waggons ploughs harrows barrows &c serving my apprentice in the country at St.Albans Harts while apprentice used to go out to harvest work the month of harvest. All wisheth to go and all in capital good health thank God ready for embarking at a few hours notice if required.

Your most obedient humble servant

Thomas KENTISH

 

KERR, William

 

194

London

August 12th 1819

My Lord,

            Not knowing the proper measures to take or mode of proceeding upon the following occasion I have taken the liberty of addressing your Lordship thereupon. I have been in business but owing to a change of times have lost a great deal of money and am considerably reduced in point of circumstances hence I feel disposed to try some other country. The asylum offered at the Cape of Good Hope I would most gladly embrace. I have formerly lived in the country and accustomed to its labours am of an active and laborious turn of mind and have no doubt of doing well there for myself and family (consisting of a wife & 5 children) if it should meet your Lordship’s approbation. Permit me to say respecting character that I can produce testimonials that will give your Lordship the most compleat satisfaction respecting me.

            If your Lordship would be so kind as to order directions to be sent to me how to proceed in the affair it would indeed be esteemed a very particular favour. Waiting the pleasure of your Lordship’s direction

I remain your Lordship’s most obedient humble servant

Wm. KERR

 

My present residence is in the house of Mr. TAYLOR, No.2 Hart Street, Mark Lane

 

198

London

Aug 16th 1819

Sir,

            Yours of the 14th was duly received in which you refer to a printed circular letter but where to find that letter I know not. If it were not intruding too much on your valuable time I would request the favour of a line to inform where that circular may be found or where I may receive information. Your compliance will confer an additional favour on, Sir

Your most obd’t and very humble serv’t

Wm. KERR

 

Mr. A.TAYLOR

No.2 Hart Street

Mark Lane

 

KEY, John

 

232

Nov 29th 1819

Sir,

            In consequence of settlers proceeding to the Cape of Good Hope I shall be happy to be one of the number. I have a family of 5 children 3 boys and 2 girls. A lad near 14 years of age wants to go likewise. My childrens age is one 11 years the other 13 years these are both girls, the next is a boy 7years old the next 2 years & the next one month old so that there is 8 of us altogether should like to go as soon as possible. I am a native of Lincolnshire and was brought up in the farming line understands all kinds of husbandry work gardening and thatching of houses inclosing of new land, but now follow the business of a brush maker. My age is 35 years if this meets with your approbation direct to me at No.2 Princes Square Kennington Cross Surry

I remain your humble servant

John KEY

 

KEYSER, James

 

176

No.101 Fetter lane

July 24th 1819

Sir,

            According to the advertisement as a middle age man and will pay you the money in three days notice from Monday next

I am your humble servant

Jas. KEYSER

 

KINDRED, Seaman

 

188

3 Redman Row

Mile End Row

August 3rs 1819

 

The undersigned being a carpenter out of employ wishes to emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope, a single man aged 22 years having lived 12 months with a farmer

Seaman KINDRED

 

KING, John (1) and Thomas DONAHOE

 

217

Baltinglass

Ireland

28th September 1819

 

The Memorial of John KING, Out Pensioner of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham from 42nd Foot and Thomas DONAHOE, late of the 97th Foot

Humbly sheweth

That your Lordships memorialists, desirous of proceeding to His Majesty’s possessions in the Cape of Good Hope as Settlers, memorialised the Secretary at War for permission and from that department was referred to your Lordships, and therefore humbly supplicates your Lordship will be graciously pleased to allow them to proceed to that colony as such, submits the whole to your favourable consideration and with impatience awaits the result.

All which is humbly submitted

By John KING

Thomas DONAHUE X his mark

 

KING, John (2)

 

220

5 Maida Place

Bermondsey

Monday 4th October 1819

My Lord,

            Being desirous of emigrating to the Cape of Good Hope, but as I understand the sum voted by Parliament will not be sufficient to enable His Majesty’s Government to send the whole of the applicants I should wish to be informed if the same protection and grant will be given to such individuals (having the means) as may chouse to transport themselves and 10 families, upon complying with the terms contained in the circular. An answer as early as possible will oblige my Lord

Your Lordships most obed’t and very humble servant

John KING

 

KING, Thomas (1)

 

207

[Trancriber’s Note: it is difficult to know if this is Thomas Sellom KING the 1820 Settler. Although the address is from the same area as most of the SEPHTON Party members, Thomas Sellom KING signed his will with an x, unlike the writer below. CO 48/69 at the National Archives, page 82, may shed some light on this. This document refers to a visit to England in 1825 by 1820 Settler William SHEPHERD. Thomas KING requested that his son F. PRIME of Spencer Place, Goswell H. Road be given free passage. If this request is signed by Thomas KING, then signatures could be compared.]

 

30 Percival Street

                                                                                                            St James Clerkenwell

27 Aug 1819

Honoured Sir

                        Having seen an Advertisement from your Office respecting an offer being made to those Persons or families who wish to go to the Cape of Good Hope as Settlers--------------------- I have made up my mind and have got nine more Families who wish to go with me and I will Guarantee them as to there going. Only wait an answer from your Office with the full particulars of the concern or Articles that we may be subject to.

            Any further inquiry that you may deem necessary to be made with the particulars as to numbers names ages and property shall be only remitted in return of your answer to this letter.

I remain Hon Sir

Your humble and obedient servant

Thomas KING

 

KING, Thomas (2)

 

180

London   

 August1819

Sir,

I hope your Honner will have the goodness to send me the circular letter on the Regulations respecting the Colony at the Cape of Good Hope. I have colected Nine Respectable Familys more now classed together whome are ready to go and pay the hundred pounds as the amount of your letter we would appeared personally but being informed that nothing could be done but by letter which you will be pleased to direct to Mr S. Colliers Rents, Angel Camd[en] Borough

Will be duly attended to. I remain with the greatest esteem your humble servant

Thomas KING

 

KING, William (1)

 

192

No.5 Star Court

Great East Cheap

Cannon Street

5 Aug 1819

Sir,

            Having seen the conditions contained in the circular in which it is proposed to permit persons to emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope I humbly beg leave to offer myself together with the men whose names are below, being ten in number, under such directions as it shall please Government to issue.

            We are ready to deposit the required security and humbly hope we shall be found eligible for the gracious attention of His Majesty’s Ministers.

I beg leave to subscribe myself Sir

Your mo obedt hbl svt

Mr. Wm. KING

 

Names

Age

Place of Abode

Profession

Family

Wm. KING

29

No.5 Star Court

Husbandman farmer

Wife 1 child

James GREENHA??

20

No.5 Star Court

Shoemaker

Wife 1 child

Thos. FORSTER

23?

No.1 Meadow Row, Kent Road

Watchmaker

1 child

James GROOM

30

Stepney

Bricklayer

Wife 2 children

Henry HANCOCK

30

18 White Street Moorfields

Chainmaker

 

William BEWICK

24

142 Goswell Street

Husbandman

Wife 2 children

Wm. BLACK

34

142 Goswell Street

Husbandman

Wife 1 child

John LANGFORD

38

No.3 Turners Court Covernt Garden

Joiner

Wife 1 child

Edward ROBINSON

23

No.3 Regent Place

Husbandman

 

John HERITAGE

24

No.5 Marlebone Street

Husbandman

 

 

KING, William (2)

 

228

Basingstoke

11mo 7 1819

Respected Friend Earl BATHURST

i have a hope thou wilt excuse the liberty of writing to thee on this wise i am desirous of going to cape of good hope if a free passage can be obtained for me if it can be obtained i should be pleased with an answer by return of post as i wish to know as soon as possible before i engage myself in any situation and if a free passage can be obtained be please to say where & when i am to apply to as i am in a situation in life not able to pay my passage over therefore i have a hope thou wilt do the most thee can for me as i cannot attend personally at this time

Thy well wishing Friend

Wm. KING

 

Direct to Wm.KING at J & Wm SKEVERY, Basingstoke Hants

 

KINGDOM, William

 

230

Rock Lodge

Tunbridge Wells

18th November 1819

Sir,

            In taking the liberty of presenting you with the accompanying work upon emigration I consider it unnecessary to disclaim any idea of its increasing your knowledge upon the subject. The few suggestions I have presumed to make have, perhaps, already met your attention, but should it prove otherwise and that they are at all likely to ameliorate the emigrants condition, I am well aware they need only be observed by you to be adopted.

I have the honour to be Sir

Your most obedient very humble servant

Will’m KINGDOM Jun.

 

[Note from GOULBURN: Thank him for his work]

 

KINGDON, Richard

 

182

The Vicarage

Bodmin

Cornwall

July 26th 1819

My Lord,

            Allow me to state to your Lordship that a number of persons in this part of the country have emigrated to America, many more had determined to go but feeling repugnance at alienating themselves from the Government of this country operated to retard them in the purpose. Now a brighter prospect presents itself to these necessitous people, the offer held out in the public prints by His Majesty’s Ministers, prompts me in behalf of those families to enquire of your Lordship if shipping be allowed free of expense for the transport of agricultural implements and for ?? [obscured]

and ewes sheep &c for the purpose of improving the breed of those animals in the Cape of Good Hope.

            How far distant the port to be colonised is from Cape Town and whether the colony will be liable to be annoyed by the Hottentots or natives of the Cape and as a salary has been proposed for a minister for every 100 families whether any would be granted to medical men who might be selected by a given number of families, for there cannot exist a doubt but that men of that profession would be most essential to the prosperity & well being of any colony or state and I cannot see how they will be adequately remunerated but by salaries from His Majesty’s Ministers.

            An answer to the above questions will be considered a mark of great condescension from your Lordship and esteemed a favour. I have the honour to subscribe myself

Your Lordship’s very humb sev’t

Rich’d KINGDON

 

KINGSTON, John

 

226

High Street

Tewkesbury

Gloucestershire

19th Oct 1819

May it please your Lordship

                                    My writing to you is upon the subject of enquiring (that is) my reading in the newspapers some time ago that there was an opening for emigration to the Cape of Good Hope and understanding still that the opening still continues I refer to your Lordships consideration, as I ham a Pensioner, whether I may be allowed to emigrate or not and if I ham whether I should be allowed to sell my pension to Government for life or whether I may have so much pension advanced to me or not, I ham a Pensioner from the 43rd Regt of foot at 6d per day aged 35 years in bodyly health and strength. Can do husbandry but have been out of work a long time, and I have a wife and one child therefore if your Lordship will condscend to answer this my humble applycation and to send me the grounds of emigration it will oblige

Your Lordships most obed’t humble serv’t

John KINGSTON

 

KINNERSLEY, W re LIVERSAGE’s Party

 

211

Newcastle

Staffordshire

Aug 31 1819

My Lord,

            A party of ten men under the guidance of one Sam’l LIVERSAGE all residing in the Parish of Burslem in the County of Staffordshire have requested me to apply to yr Lordship for information as to the measures necessary for them to take to go out as settlers to the Cape of Good Hope. On the other side is a list of them, their families and occupations. They are all provided with the money necessary to make the required lodgements and intend also to take out with them a supply of tools and such necessaries as they are likely to want. From the information which I have obtained they appear very likely to be desirable colonists.

I have the honor to be

Your Lordship’s mo ob hbl svt

W. KINNERSLEY

 

Sam’l LIVERSAGE       Farmer              Wife and 3 children under 14 years

Rich’d FORRESTER      Wheelwright      Wife and 3 children under 14 years

Jas. CLARK                  Blacksmith        Wife and 3 children under 14 years

Thos. MANDLEY           Brickmaker        Wife and 7 children under 14 years

George NICKLENSON    Labourer            Wife and 2 children under 14 years

Thos. ROBINSON          Labourer            Single

Matt LOWE                   Labourer            Single

Jas, FORRESTER         Labourer            Single

Philip HARPER              Carpenter          Wife

Sam’l EARDLEY            Labourer            Wife and two children under 14 years

 

Care of W. KINNERSLEY

Newcastle

Staffordhsire                 

 

KNOLD, William

 

167

10 Lamby Street

Smithfield

16 July 1819

Sir,

            I am by profession a miller and farmer aged 30 with a wife and two children wishing to emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope, or the dependent settlements proposed, I should be happy to avail myself of any assistance His Majesty’s Government may be pleased to afford.

I am Sir your humble obedient servant

William KNOLD

 

KNOTT, Robert Rowe

 

173

Whitstable

Near Canterbury

July 22 1819

My Lord,

            Having seen through the medium of newspapers that Government is very desirous of prosecuting an emigration from this country to the Cape of Good Hope; and hearing at the same time that clergymen are to be selected to accompany it, I have taken the liberty of addressing your Lordship, which I trust will be pardoned when I say that I am entirely ignorant of any other more proper channel of application to your Lordship.

            I am a young man of twenty three years of age, of St. John’s College Cambridge who has taken the degree of A.B. last June and being no less anxious of entering into Holy Orders than to visit a foreign country I humbly offer myself to your Lordship’s attention for the purpose of obtaining a situation either as a clergyman at the Cape or in what capacity soever your Lordship may deem me worthy of. I can provide testimonials of character &c from my college and from the neighbourhood in which I live signed by the surrounding clergy. If your Lordship will deign to give me an answer stating whether or no I have any chance of preferment in my wished for profession at the Cape of Good Hope your Lordship will infinitely oblige

Your Lordship’s most respectful, humble & most obedient servant

Robt. Rowe KNOTT

 

PS I will take upon me to say that I think myself prepared at this moment to pass an examination for Orders.

 

KOLBE, George Augustus

 

215

5 Church Street

Soho

Sept 23 1819

Hon’d Sir,

            From yours of the 28th I understand that 10 individuals must at least offer themselves to Government. Excuse the liberty I take and the trouble which I occasion you, but Sir could you inform me my best way of proceeding to the Cape? I am 20 years old and can advance the sum of £10 myself to Government; at the same time Sir I am at loss to know which is my best mode of proceeding, therefore Sir would you have the goodness to address a line to me or should you be calling our way I should be glad to see you and you will greatly oblige

Your grateful humble & obed’t serv’t

G.A. KOLBE

 

MACKINNON, N (filed under K)

 

165

London, 14th June 1819

Sir,

            I have been applied to by a friend of mine, a Mr. McLEOD in the north of Scotland, to ascertain what encouragement if any was given by Government to such persons as were inclined to emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope, what quantity of ground and what pat of the Colony such ground would be granted to individuals inclined to remove there. I allude only to Gentlemen in private life, but for my own information I would feel obliged for any distinction if there is any regarding officers who might wish to go to that country. I called at the Colonial Office last Saturday and was directed to apply by letter to you on this subject which I now have the honor of doing and your answer left at the Bar of the Cannon Coffee House will duly reach me.

I have the honor to be Sir

Your most obt serv’t

N. MACKINNON

Capt. 93rd Regt

 

McKENZIE, Archibald (filed under K)

 

184

No. 5 Queen Street

Mint Square

Southwark

27th July 1819

Honoured Sir,

                        Having been informed that it is the intention of His Majesty’s Government to give encouragement to those who wish to emigrate to the Cape of Good Hope I take the liberty of applying to you for information on the subject and will be glad to know the terms on which emigrants will be permitted to go out.

            My family consists of a wife and four children, two sons and two daughters. My age is thirty six years, my present object is to become cultivator if you will have the goodness to cause a circular to be sent to the annexed address, I shall them give the most respectable refferences as to character &c

I am Sir your most obed’t humble serv’t

Arch’d McKENZIE

 

McKENZIE, T.H. (filed under K)

 

202

Kyleakin

By Lochalsh

17th Aug 1819

My Lord,

            In consequence of the encouragement held out by Government to settlers to the Cape of Good Hope I have determined on going at the head of a colony from this island and the adjacent coast upwards of nine hundred souls signed with me last February but in consequence of some alteration in the arrangement they were disappointed in going. I have now from 40 to 50 settlers in my list of handsome stout active Highlanders and such men as will do credit to any country on whose steadiness and correct conduct I would stake my life. I hope I shall have with me several respectable gentlemen also from this country and trust that your Lordship will advise me of the number necessary to induce Government to send a ship to this country. I also beg that your Lordship would be pleased to direct that the regulations respecting the enlistment for the Cape should be sent down and to say what time it is intended that the settlers should leave this country. If it will be necessary for me to go to London to settle for the emigrants your Lordship will be pleased to say so and how soon I complete my lists I shall wait of your Lordship.

I have the honour to remain

Your Lordship’s most obedient and most humble servant

T.H. McKENZIE