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.

WHITEHEAD, William

Written by Sue Mackay on 06 February 2015.

National Archives, Kew CO48/46, 539

High Street

Tewkesbury

Gloucestershire

15^th October 1819

Sir,

By the request of several persons in this town have written to you on the subject of emigration to the Cape.

What privilege to emigrants when arrived

Whether mechanics may emigrate

What age addmitted of persons who emigrate

Whether emigrants go free of all expence

Whether emigrants are permitted to return from the Cape to England if they are so disposed

An answer to these enquiries and any other information relative thereunto will much oblige

Your humble servant

Wm WHITHEAD

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