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From: Sue Mackay <>
Subject: Settler Correspondence - John ANSON
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 17:29:47 +0100 (BST)


Transcribed from CO48/41 at the national Archives,
Kew, London

8
116 Hoxton
London
17 July 1819
Sir,
I humbly solicit you that this proposal might be
taken into consideration as it is my wish to take my
family to the Cape of Good Hope upon the conditions
specified in this day’s Newspaper in Agricultural
Business having been used to it in Yorkshire also in
surveying & measuring land. Likewise in mining and
canal work. I have been upwards of 20 years in London,
4 years in His Majesty’s Reg’t of Life Guards and the
remainder in the Hon’ble East India Company’s
warehouses. My age is 45 years, my wife’s age 48. The
children are as follows.
John 19
Elizabeth 16
Henry 13
Ambrose 12
Hannah 10
Sarah 8
Should my application meet with the gentlemen’s
approbation I shall be very much obliged.
I am Sir your most obedient and humble servant
John J. ANSON


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