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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.

MINCHIN, William

National Archives, Kew CO48/44, 626

52 Belvedere Place

Great Suffolk Street

Borough

Sept 22 1819

My Lord,

It is the wish of the persons hereinafter annexed that I should apply to your Lordship for a grant of land at the Cape of Good Hope. Should your Lordship aprove of my request I am ready to enter into and abide by the rules and regulations laid down for the same.

I have always been in the Farming Business and my object at the Cape will be solely that of cultivating the land aforesaid for that purpose. I beg your Lordship will as soon as convenient after a selection as taken place inform me of the result of this my request.

I am my Lord

Your Lordship's most obedient and most humble servant

Wm. MINCHIN

The Names and Ages of the Persons inclined to go out with me as follows:

Names of Person and Family whom as applied for this grant:

William MINCHIN

Aged 31

3 children under 12 years of age

Amount of capital £1000

Names of Persons to be taken out

Age

Names of Wives

Age

Boys

Age

Girls

Age

William FROST

35

Elizabeth FROST

33

   

Elizabeth/Jane

10/2

Henry FROST

20

           

George FROST

28

           

Robert HAWKINS

25

Mary Ann HAWKINS

24

Edwin/George

4/1

Fanny

2

Joseph STONE

22

           

Joseph HAWKINS

21

Elizabeth HAWKINS

24

       

William HAWKINS

29

Harriett HAWKINS

26

James E/George B

5/6

   

George HAWKINS

27

Elizabeth HAWKINS

27

Richard/George

6/4

Fanny

2

Thomas HUNTER

23

           

John RICKETTS

25

           

Andrew BONHAM

30

           

John SMITH?

22

           

John MARNE?

24

           

David BROWN

26

           

William MILLER

20

           

16 men

 

5 women

 

8 boys

 

5 girls

 
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