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From: Sue Mackay <>
Subject: Settler Correspondence - Henry BRIDGEMAN re John PAYNE
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 19:14:54 +0100 (BST)


Transcribed fron CO48/41 at the National Archives in
Kew, London

583
Scotts Hotel
Clifford Street
9th Oct 1819
My Lord,
I hope you will pardon the liberty I am taking in
forwarding to your Lordship the enclosed paper
relative to an individual who has applied to me this
morning under the following circumstances. He stated
to me that he was an applicant to go to the
Colonization of the Cape of Good Hope, that it was
necessary to put forward of his views that he should
be proved to be the person he states himself to be and
that he had come here in expectation of finding my
father in order to obtain from him a few lines proving
him to be the son of a tenant of his. In consequence
of my father’s absence, and the individual, John
PAYNE, stating to me that the delay requisite to his
securing an answer from the country would forfeit
perhaps the advantage of it. I have applied to my
father’s agent, who has written the enclosed statement
in proving this being the person he represents himself
to be. I beg leave once more to make my apologies for
thus encroaching upon your Lordship’s time and have
the honour to be My Lord
Your Lordship’s most obedient humble servant
Henry BRIDGEMAN


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