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.

WITCOMBE, William (Reference)

Written by Sue Mackay on 30 November 1999.

Filed under M

National Archives, Kew CO48/44, 595

Trowbridge

14^th August 1819

We the Minister and Churchwardens of the Parish of Trowbridge in the County of Wilts do certify that we do know and are well acquainted with William WITCOMBE of Trowbridge aforesaid Labourer who has a wife and five children all parishioners of Trowbridge that the said William WITCOMBE is an able bodied man but at present out of employment. We therefore recommend him as a fit and proper person to be sent to settle in his Majesty's colony at the Cape of Good Hope.

George CRABBE, Minister

Thos. TINDRELL }

Thos. STILLMAN } Churchwardens

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