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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.

TOZET, Solomon

Written by Sue Mackay on .

National Archives, Kew CO48/46, 170

Ligueira near Coimbra

Portugal

3 Nov 1819

My Lord,

Your Lordships goodness will I hope pardon for the liberty taken in addressing your Lordship on the subject of emigration to the Cape of Good Hope.

I observe by the public papers the support and encouragement His Majesty's Government offers to those who wish to become settlers in that Colony and can be approved.

The little knowledge I have of the Cape partly by aiding in the attack and capture under the orders of Admiral Rt. Hon'ble Lord K and being otherwise accustomed to the climate induces me to be desirous to offer myself as a candidate for your Lordships appointment to take out a party of able bodied men and their families as settlers to the Cape of Good Hope conformable to the regulations laid down by His Majesty's Government.

I hope this intrusion on your Lordships time will not be too great an infringement by informing: I have been here nearly eight years during that time under the patronage of John JEFFERY Esq, Consul general, Lisbon from whom I can get a certificate to that effect should your Lordship require it.

I wait with all humble submission encouraged to hope may in part excuse the presumption in troubling your Lordship for an answer with the regulations accompanied in order to make the necessary arrangements should I prove to be one of those of your favour, and beg leave to remain with all possible respect and deference

Your Lordships most devoted and most obedient humble servant

Solomon TOZET

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