KEELER, John

National Archives, Kew CO48/44, 196

9 Union Street

Walcot Place

Lambeth

Surry

August 13 1819

My Lord,

Having been informed that Government has adopted a plan for the assistance of British subjects emigrating to the Cape of Good Hope, I beg leave to ask of your Lordship a copy of their proposal. I am a gardener by profession & have a wife & five children dependent on my exertion. But giving the preference to a colony where I shall be surrounded by my countrymen & protected by the laws of the Mother Country; under these circumstances I have made this application, an answer to which will confer the greatest of obligations on

Your Lordship's very humble servant

John KEELER