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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.

REYNOLDS, William (2)

Written by Sue Mackay on .

National Archives, Kew CO48/45, 442

3 Waterloo Place

Princess Rode

Lambeth

July 20th 1819

Honored Sir,

I take the liberty of addressing you to solicit a participation in the grant allowed by Government to enable distressed manufacturers to emmegrate to the Cape of Good Hope.

I have been for some years a Master in the manufacturing of Tin Ware and Ironmonger but business being so very bad have been obliged to give up my house and business and am very desirous of going to the the Cape with my family consisting of a wife and three children under ten years of age. I beg leave to say that at all times I shall as heretofore exert myself for the interest of my king and country having served five years in the Belston Volunteers commanded by Major PROUD (Staffordshire) and four years in the Local Militia under Sir John WROTCHLEY Bart and in the Staffordshire Yeomanry.

I beg with due submission to say that I can procure very respectable refferences as to my general conduct for honesty sobriety and industry. If I should be thought a proper person to be sent to the Cape I shall feel it a double obligation by as early a communication as convenient. And by to say I am prepared to enter into any arrangement necessary for the satisfaction of Government, and beg to subscribe myself

Your most obed't and humble servant

William REYNOLDS

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