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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.

BRIDGEMAN, Henry re John PAYNE

Written by Sue Mackay on .

National Archives, Kew CO48/41, 583

Scotts Hotel

Clifford Street

9th Oct 1819

My Lord,

I hope you will pardon the liberty I am taking in forwarding to your Lordship the enclosed paper relative to an individual who has applied to me this morning under the following circumstances. He stated to me that he was an applicant to go to the Colonization of the Cape of Good Hope, that it was necessary to put forward of his views that he should be proved to be the person he states himself to be and that he had come here in expectation of finding my father in order to obtain from him a few lines proving him to be the son of a tenant of his. In consequence of my father's absence, and the individual, John PAYNE, stating to me that the delay requisite to his securing an answer from the country would forfeit perhaps the advantage of it. I have applied to my father's agent, who has written the enclosed statement in proving this being the person he represents himself to be. I beg leave once more to make my apologies for thus encroaching upon your Lordship's time and have the honour to be My Lord

Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant

Henry BRIDGEMAN

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