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.

DUKE, John [filed with Cape correspondence]

Written by Sue Mackay on 21 March 2015.

National Archives, Kew CO48/42, 592

Cork

20^th July 1819

My Lord,

As I am a Pensioner and would wish to go to America I humbly solicit your Lordship to grant me a settlement there for myself, wife and three children as I am an out pensioner of Chelsea Hospital at 9d per day and would willingly settle in America

I am my Lord your humble servant

John DUKE

9d per day

Late Depot Lemington

To the care of Mr.GODD near the Corn Market, Cork

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