HARVEY, John
23 Ebury Street
Near the York Hospitals
Chelsea
28th July 1819
Sir,
Having seen an advertisement in the paper that your Lordship wishes to engage with some familys to go as settlers to the Cape of Good Hope, I having a wife and three children being the former part of my life brought up in the farming line but now follow the carpenter & cabinate bisiness, which not answering my expectations have no objection to go to the Cape if agreeable to your Honor wish. Our ages as follows; My age 29 wife age 29 first child 4 years 2nd child 3 years 3rd child 1½ years.
If this meets with your Honors approbation please to send an answer with the engagement as soon as convenyant, having my goods & many other matters to settle.
I am your Honors most dutiful & humble servant
John HARVEY
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