READ, William
626
47 Cromer Street
Brunswick Square
[Received October 16th 1819]
My Lord,
I most respectfully beg leave to offer myself to your Lordship’s notice as a candidate for emigration to the Cape of Good Hope. It is most proper that your Lordship should be informed that my father was a Suffolk farmer and that I was brought up to the same business but on his death quitted that country and took upon me the trade of a tailor, although I have a general knowledge of agriculture particularly of the growth of hemp.
I beg leave to subscribe a list of the persons who will accompany me to the settlement together with their trades and to that I am ready to comply with the terms of His Majesty’s Government as also those who will accompany me.
I beg leave to subscribe myself
Your Lordship’s most obed’t and very humble serv’t
Wm. READ
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Children |
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Wm. READ |
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6 |
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R. FULLER |
Gardener |
3 |
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R. DALTON |
Tailor |
4 |
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Wm. FEATHERSTONE |
Farmer |
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Thos. JONES |
Smith |
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John CHAPMAN |
Shoemaker |
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Edward JEAL |
Shoemaker |
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Chas. JEAL |
Cooper |
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Cornelius COLLINS |
Agriculturalist |
3 |
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A. READ |
Husbandman |
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W. WALTERS |
Engineer |
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