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

pre 1820 Settler Correspondence before emigration

ALL the 1819 correspondence from CO48/41 through CO48/46 has been transcribed whether or not the writers emigrated to the Cape. Those written by people who did become settlers, as listed in "The Settler Handbook" by M.D. Nash (Chameleon Press 1987), are labelled 1820 Settler and the names of actual settlers in the text appear in red.

LYSAGHT, Cornelius

National Archives, Kew CO48/44, 283

25 Crown Street

Soho

July 29th 1819

Honored Sir,

Wishing to engage ourselves in emigrating to the Cape of Good Hope as its specified in the publick news papers we are desirous of knowing the conditions wherein we are to engage.

Cornelius LYSAGHT & four children

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