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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.

PINK, Edmund

Written by Sue Mackay on .

National Archives, Kew CO48/45, 411

4 Queens Way

Walworth

30th November 1819

Sir

I take the liberty of writing to you to name my intention of proceeding to the Cape of Good Hope, with the idea of settling there, and have taken my passage on a Merchant Ship which I expect will sail in the course of a week.

Putting myself on the same footing with other Settlers I do not know whether I am making a just claim, in asking for the grant of 100 acres of land, having the means of cultivating same. If the claim is a just one, and the grant allowed, will you have the goodness to put me in the right way of receiving the proper documents, to show to the Governor on my arrival at the Cape.

I am a young man by profession a surveyor about the age of 24, entirely dependant on my own exertions.

I have the honor, to remain

Your most obedt. humble servant

Edmund PINK

[Note from GOULBURN on the reverse]

Acquaint him that on application to the Governor he will receive such a grant or his means of cultivation may appear to entitle him to.

 

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