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From: Sue Mackay <>
Subject: Settler Correspondence - John OWEN
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 20:26:40 +0100 (BST)


Transcribed from CO48/44 at the National Archives in
Kew, London

The following letter has confused me. The letter
itself is very clearly written, so the transcription
is accurate. What confuses me is the information on
p.98 of Nash that the bulk of the correspondence for
OWEN's Party was conducted by Thomas OWEN's father,
the Rev. J. OWEN of Fulham.

This letter is written by a John OWEN of Fulham, but
nowhere does it say he is a vicar, and the son he
refers to is only in his 18th year, so surely could
not be Thomas OWEN. The only correspondence for OWEN's
Party under O is the batch I have just sent, written
by Thomas himself and forwarded via a friend and Sir
Charles GRENVILLE. Perhaps I will find a Rev. J. OWEN
of Fulham elsewhere!

Sue

957
Fulham
Aug 30th 1819
My Dear Sir,
Though I feel extremely sorry to trouble you on any
matter which concerns myself, yet I cannot forbear
intreating you and, so far as you may be enabled to
give it, in accomplishing an object which lies very
close to my heart.
My second son, now in his 18th year, has been at
Bremen for 2 years, partly that he might learn the
German language, and partly that he might be less in
the way of temptation till I should be able to procure
something for him to do. He has of late shown an
unsettledness of disposition & a tendency to
extravagance and it appears necessary that he should
be recalled immediately. In fact he has nothing to
occupy a restless mind and when he returns to me he
will be in the same situation.
Some foreign appointment seems most likely to suit
the turn of his mind and the new settlement in Africa
occurred to me as perhaps likely to afford something
of the sort. I venture to suggest what has passed in
my mind and have only to request the benefit of your
judgement & assistance in such way as the many calls
upon both may allow you to afford them.
I am, my dear Sir, vary faithfully
John OWEN





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