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.

ISBISTER, Caleb

Written by Sue Mackay on 03 April 2015.

National Archives, Kew CO48/44, 34

No.1 Hunts Court

St.Martin's Lane

July 25^th 1819

My Lord,

May it please your Lordship to inform me of the [terms] upon which I can go out as settler on the Cape of Good Hope. I am a single man aged 22 years, a cabinet maker by trade, but not unwilling to turn my hand to other things. I have no means to keep myself in the Cape while there till I get work there, for should wish to go out with some person

I am my Lord

Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant

Caleb ISBISTER

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