Application to emigrate from Thomas Charles WHITE

Nottinghamshire Archives

[Lieut T. C. WHITE’s supplementary application to GODFREY]

Arnold ***** Nottingham
Novr 14th 1819

Sir/
My offer to convey out to the Cape of good Hope, several persons inhabitants of this village and neighbourhood who had placed themselves under my direction for that purpose, having been accepted by Earl BATHURST, I beg you will have the goodness, those persons not having the means of providing themselves with the necessary outfits or with any of those little comforts so essential particularly to women and children on a long voyage, to lay with the annexed Return in which the party is described, before the Subscribers to the plan for relief by colonization
I have the honor to be Sir
your most Obedient humble Servant
T. WHITE
Lieut H. P. [half pay] 79 Foot

[Transcriber’s Note: This is followed on the page by what looks to be a draft response from GODFREY]

Newark 24th Novr 1819

Sir-
In answer to your letter of the 14th inst which I recd yesterday on my return from London I beg to inform you that the list of persons proposed to be sent out to the Cape of Good Hope by the Subscribers to the Fund in this County has been made up & transmitted to Government & that I therefore conceive it is impossible to extend to the party in your List the benefit of such Subsn[?] especially as the Subscribers had no notion[?] of your charges[?] *** *** *** ****
I have the honor to be
ESG

[Transcriber’s note: Then follows WHITE’s list of proposed emigrants]