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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.

HAYWARD, William Henry

Written by Sue Mackay on 30 November 1999.

National Archives, Kew CO48/43, 867

107 Upper St

Cross St

Oct 13 1819

My Lord,

Having been informed that a Mr. CLARK, residing in the Commercial Road, was approved of to take out thirty families to the Cape of Good Hope, and is taking £10-0-0 as a deposit of each family, the intention of this is to ask your Lordship to inform me whether the said Mr. CLARK has been accepted, as several wish to join his party

I remain your Lordship's most obt devoted hbl svt

Wm. Hy. HAYWARD

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