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The 1820 Settler Correspondence
 as preserved in the National Archives, Kew
 and edited by Sue Mackay

COMBLEY, William, 1820

National Archives, Kew, CO48/52, 160

On Board the Sir G.Osborn

Febr. 10 1820

Sir

I will take it as a particular favour to inform me if I am obliged to produce a Certificate of my Marriage to the Wife I have on Board with with me. Captn YOUNG say's I am obligated but I think it wrong to oblige one more than another and nothing of the kind is mentioned in the Instruction's. I am at present accommodating the Passenger's as Surgeon, on their passage to the Cape of Good Hope without emolument. Awaiting an early answer

I remain Sir

Your most Obt. Humble Ser't.

W COMBLEY

P.S. Myself and Wife are entered in Mr WILSONs party, and should have sailed in the La Belle Alliance had I not been detained, as Surgeon to the Brilliant and since shifted to the Sir G Osborn. Capt. YOUNG's Inducement is on anonimos Letter he has received from an unknown hand. We are now 110 miles from Home.

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