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The 1820 Settler Correspondence
 as preserved in the National Archives, Kew
 and edited by Sue Mackay

ADAMSON, Rev James, 1827

National Archives, Kew, CO48/114, 4

Cupar, Fife

18 Mar 1827

Sir

Permit me to inform you that I have been ordained by the Presbytery of Edinburgh to be Minister of the proposed Scottish congregation at Cape-town and have been instructed to apply to you to procure for me a passage to the colony at his Majesty's expence in conformity with an assurance to that effect made to the Presbytery. The accommodation required is for a single person with six or seven boxes of luggage and I shall be ready to sail at any time after the end of this month and shall esteem it a peculiar favour if you will let me know as early as possible at what time a vessel will sail in which it may be convenient for his Majesty's government to afford me a passage.

Believe me, Sir, your obed't ser't

James ADAMSON

 

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National Archives, Kew, CO48/114, 6

Cupar, Fife

4th May 1827

Sir

I sometime ago received from The Rev'd. Dr. BRUNTON Edinburgh an extract of a letter from you in which you intimate that a passage to the Cape of Good Hope will be ordered for me at the expence of his Majesty's government. The object of my former application was to ascertain merely the time at which it would be convenient to appoint me a passage and I intended to present myself in London as soon as possible with the proper documents. These have I presume been forwarded to you.

Permit me again to request that you will give me early intimation of the period at which the vessel will sail by which you intend me to proceed.

I am your most obed't Ser't

James ADAMSON

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