JOHNSON, Thomas
108
Billy Mill
9th September 1819
My Lord,
I humbly beg permission of your Lordship for a passage to the Cape of Good Hope under the encouragement and advantages held out by Government to settle there. I have been a practical miller and farmer on my own account for the last fourteen years, have a wife and family of three boys and two girls and am thirty three years of age. Can take out with me one very intelligent and experienced millwright, one cartwright, one or two able blacksmiths with about ten others mostly husbandmen with their families.
An answer stating whether we can be allowed the priviledge of emigrating and if so what time will be necessary to hold ourselves in readiness for the voyage, addressed for me Bill Mill, by North Shields, Northumberland will greatly oblige
Your Lordship’s most obedient servant
Thomas JOHNSON
129
My Lord,
In conformity to the directions contained in your letter of the 13th inst I transmit for your consideration a detailed statement of the number of persons, names and descriptions of those proposing to settle at the Cape of Good Hope
Name and Description of the Person taking out the Settlers:
Thomas JOHNSON
Miller and Farmer, Billy Mill, by North Shields, Northumberland, age 33
Mary JOHNSON 36
John/Thomas/James 12/10/6 Mary/Jane 7/2
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Names of Settlers |
Profession or Trade |
Age |
Names of Women |
Age |
Male Children |
Ages |
Female Children |
Ages |
|
Thos.McCONNEL |
Millwright |
44 |
Marg’t |
43 |
Thomas |
6 |
Christ./Marg’t |
12/9 |
|
Geo. McCONNEL |
Millwright |
19 |
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|
|
|
|
|
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Wm. BLASS |
Millwright |
22 |
|
|
|
|
Christina BLASS |
13 |
|
Wm. HUTCHINSON |
Blacksmith |
42 |
Elizabeth/Elen |
27/19 |
Henry |
1 |
Ann |
13 |
|
Wm. HUTCHINSON |
Blacksmith |
19 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Thos. BEALE |
Stone Mason |
26 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Geo. PINKNEY |
Husbandman |
27 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Geo. ANGUS |
Husbandman |
21 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Robt SIMINSTON |
|
30 |
|
|
|
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|
|
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Wm. LANDALS |
|
23 |
|
|
|
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|
|
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Thos. SCOTT |
|
42 |
Ann |
40 |
Thos/Walter |
13/9 |
Eliz/Mary/Isabella/Thomasina/Ann |
16/11/5/3/1 |
|
Henry BELL |
Stone Mason |
29 |
Jane |
28 |
Robert |
3 |
Jane |
1 |
|
Thos. SCOTT |
Husbandman |
19 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edw. JOHNSON |
Tailor |
30 |
Eliz. |
28 |
|
|
Eliz./Isabella |
3/2 |
My Lord, I am fully determined to abide strictly by the conditions granted by his Majesty’s Government and have no person in the list who does not express themselves firmly to the same purpose. My Lord I beg to observe that from my own personal knowledge of the [obscured] abilities if the mechanics they will be of the highest importance to the colony. I would be favoured by being allowed to take out with me a pair of mill stones and other machinery and the sooner I receive your Lordship’s directions to prepare for the voyage will oblige
Your Lordship’s most obedient servant
Thomas JOHNSON