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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.

SCOTT, John

Written by Sue Mackay on .

National Archives, Kew CO48/45, 773

July 27th 1819

John SCOTT Cabenet Maker No 25 Red Lion Street Kingland Road I live with my Father and Mother there are reduced in curmstance and I have great desire to go.

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