Selected Settler Correspondence 1820 - 1829

For this set of documents only letters written by or about known settlers or their families have been transcribed, whereas ALL the 1819 correspondence was transcribed whether or not the writers emigrated to the Cape.

NORDEN, Joshua (brother of Benjamin NORDEN), 1822

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Written by | 21 December 2010

National Archives, Kew, CO48/59, 426

London

18th Oct 1822

Sir,

I beg you will excuse the freedom I take in addressing you but being actuated from a sense of your goodness to pardon the presumption.

I thus wish you to inform me if it lies in your limitted power to grant me a free passage to the Cape of Good Hope, my finding myself in provision & taking with me small quantity of goods consisting of bale & wearing apparel, quills & stationary. My brother Benjamin NORDEN [SIMONS?] being one of Mr.WILSON's Party of settlers has now wrote for me to come out to him at the Cape. Thinking to embrace this opportunity I shall feel it a great obligation confered on me if you can grant the indulgence of my request and allow me to subscribe myself, Sir

Your most ob't hble serv't

Joshua NORDEN