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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.

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SAGE, James 5621
SALMON, S.S. 5527
SALTER, Thomas and James BRYANT, 1820 Settler 5603
SANDERS, Henry 5666
SANDERSON, George, 1820 Settler 6015
SANDS, Thomas 5104
SAUL, Isaac 6068
SAUL, James 5144
SAVAGE, William 6276
SAWYER, George 5695
SCANLAN, William, 1820 Settler 6680
SCARR, John 5663
SCHOLEFIELD, George 5165
SCHULSE, G 4746
SCHULZ, Caspar Christian 5427
SCOTT, Andrew 5468
SCOTT, C 5496
SCOTT, Edward 5175
SCOTT, George, 1820 Settler 5562
SCOTT, Henry 5736
SCOTT, J 4973
SCOTT, James 5595
SCOTT, John 4851
SEAMAN, James 5360
SEARES, Robert 5296
SEARLS, Edward, 1820 Settler 5753
SEEGER, Henry Peter 5385
SEPHTON, Hezekiah, 1820 Settler 7495
SETON, Thomas, 1820 Settler 5622
SEYMOUR, George 5198
SHANLY, Michael 5447
SHARP, Francis 5214
SHAW, James 5075
SHAW, John 5473
SHAW, Peter Hosea 4951
SHENSTONE, J.B. 5343
SHEPHERD, James W. 4631
SHEPHERD, John 5025
SHERMAN, George 5233
SHIELL, Andrew 6079
SHIELLS, William 5493
SIDMOUTH, Lord and George LEGH KECK re Henry GIRD 4689
SILBY, Richard and William TREGARTHA 5231
SIMISTER, Hugh 5447
SINCLAIR, Alexander 5175
SINCLAIR, Martin 4915
SKELTON, Hamilton 5104
SMALL, Rev. James 5501
SMITH, George, 1820 Settler 8280
SMITH, J 5559
SMITH, J.C. 5650
SMITH, James (2) 5641
SMITH, James (WILKINSON's Party), 1820 Settler 6959
SMITH, John (2) 4907
SMITH, John (3) 5090
SMITH, John (WILLSON's Party), 1820 Settler 6816
SMITH, Joseph 5239
SMITH, P re BRADSHAW's Party, 1820 Settler 6022
SMITH, Peter 6221
SMITH, William (2) 4921
SMITH, William (3) 4737
SMITH, William, 1820 Settler 8033
SMITHER, W.H. 4769
SMITHERS, James, John and William 4944
SMYTHE, Thomas 5084
SNAPE, William 4985
SNELLGROVE, H.R. 5017
SOMERVILLE, James, 1820 Settler 5016
SOUTHCOTT, Thomas 5397
SOUTHEY, George, 1820 Settler 7225
SPEAR, F.W. 5471
SPEEDING, James and James LAPAN, 1820 Settler 5240
SPERRY, George 5029
SPRAGG, Joseph 4866
SPREAD, John 5178
STAMFORD, Joseph 5401
STANDFAST, G.T. 5541
STANLEY, John, 1820 Settler 7259
STAPLES, John, father of 1820 Settler 5658
STARBRUCK, Jeremiah 5160
STEACY, Edward 4858
STEELE, James 5002
STERLEY, Thomas, 1820 Settler 6423
STEVENS, John (1) 5636
STEVENS, John (2) 5262
STEWART, William 6376
STILLWELL, William, 1820 Settler 5906
STOKES, George, 1820 Settler 5245
STONE, Palmer 5432
STORY, Christopher 5217
STRETCH, James St.Leger 5864
STRUTT, Colonel re David Polley FRANCIS, 1820 Settler 5565
SUDWEEKES, John 5875
SULLIVAN, Cornelius et al 5192
SUTHERLAND, Robert 5118
SUTTON, Thomas 5877
SWAN, Henry 5201
SYDNEY, Viscount re John MANDY, 1820 Settler 6499
SYLLER, John and William PORTLOCK 4953
SYME, John re Charles BROWN 5349
SYMES, G.B. 5053
SYNNOT, Walter, 1820 Settler 6997