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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.

BARBER, Thomas

National Archives, Kew CO48/41, 393/394

York, August 17 1819

My Lord,

I beg pardon for addressing you. Wanting to the Cape I hope you will inform me how I should proceed there under Government regulations. I remain My Lord

Your most obedient servant

Thomas BARBER

My address at Buckley Shoemaker, nigh the Minster gates, Petergate, York

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