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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.

MARKWELL, Charles

National Archives, Kew CO48/44, 524

No.36 Salisbury Street

Bermondsey

July 27th 1819

Sir,

Having seen an advertisement in the publick paper for emigrants to go to the Cape of good hope and being a young man out of imploy is disirous of going. Sir you will be kind enough to send me the perticklars

Direct Chs MARKWELL

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