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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.

HALL, G

Written by Sue Mackay on .

National Archives, Kew CO48/43, 793

No 39 Dennison Street

Liverpool

15 Sep 1819

Humble Sir,

On application to the agents here a difficulty arose which they could not solve whether I was too old to go out to the new Settlement now forming in Southern Africa and as I sho'd not like to prepare for such an undertaking without a certainty of being accepted have presumed to address you on the subject and submit to your fiat after having stated the facts.

I am in my 51st year of a sound constitution and have seen many ups and downs having in my progress thro' life been accustomed to earn my living in various businesses was in the outset in the law and as I suppose the Colony will be governed by the same laws as its Mother Country might be of service in that respect and my age might then be considered to add weight to argument and the younger classes might be kept from those quarrels which the blood of youth, without experience, is too apt to fement and sometimes rises to such a heighth as to occasion very disagreeable results if not chequed in time - I have been in agriculturial pursuits (and which I am fond of) and sometime since resided on a farm belonging to NORTH Esqr. at Walton near Cotlands in Surry,

I remain with great respect your most obedt. hble. servt

G. HALL

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