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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.

DALTREY, James Elijah

National Archives, Kew CO48/42, 594

London

July 21st 1819

James Elijah and Sarah DALTREY & wife by Traid Fan Stick Makers livin at No.12 Hunt Cort, Hunt Street, Mile End New Town having Littel or No Woorck to Do for the Last Three Years Wishing to Leave Is Country for the Cape of Good Hope if it meets with your Apprbaion [*Approbation]

I remain with due Respect

J.E. DALTREY

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