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.

FOWLER, William (3)

Written by Sue Mackay on 02 April 2015.

National Archives, Kew CO48/43, 237

Bramwith

Near Doncaster

16^th October 1819

My Lord,

Being informed that his Majesty's Government is desirous of sending persons over to the Cape of Good Hope to form settlements there and as I presume I am fully quallifyed in agriculture and can give satisfactory references, shall be very thankfull to yr Lordship if you will direct a statement of the conditions may be sent me directed as above

I am my Lord your devoted hbl st

William FOWLER

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