BROWN, John and STUBBS, John

 

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To the Right Honourable Earl Bathurst, the humble memorial of John BROWN and John STUBBS herewith

That your memorialists being possessed of s small capital which they are unable to employ with such advantage as will secure to their respective families either subsistence or the means of giving them such an education as they consider necessary to their future success in life have directed their serious attention to the liberal proposals of His Majesty’s Government as contained in the Circular Letter to Persons desirous of emigrating to the Cape of Good Hope.

            That availing themselves of considerable information they have been able to derive from persons who have been settled at the Cape and maturely reflecting at the same time on the difficulties which must naturally attend such an enterprize, they have resolved to form a Partnership Concern and beg leave respectfully to solicit such assistance as His Majesty’s Government have determined upon granting.

            Your memorialists humbly submit for your Lordship’s approbation the annexed list of the names and such other particulars as they consider important of the individuals they have engaged on their proposed undertaking. That deeply impressed with the responsibility they take upon themselves your memorialists beg to state that their humble endeavours shall be faithfully exerted to second the Wise and Benificent Intentions of His Majesty’s Government by securing to the individuals under them every comfort their situation can possibly admit. They have used every measure to make themselves acquainted with the different characters of these individuals and venture with much confidence to assert that they will be found ready to defend with their lives the Colony, whenever the Government may think their services can be of utility in repelling any attack thereon. Your memorialists will with gratitude accept whatever station may be assigned to them, but being ardently anxious  to combine the pursuits of the Agriculturalist and Fisherman            they respectfully hope your Lordship will not deem them presumptuous in soliciting every facility for this purpose that can be granted them consistent with the ?? of other settlers and the public interest of the Colony.

            That your memorialists are ready to answer any interrogations on the nature of their plans and to give every facility to any enquiry on their characters your Lordship may direct to be made as well as to fulfil every condition under which assistance can be granted to settlers, whenever permitted so to do, and they entreat permission further to represent that some of the families they have engaged are at present in great distress and anxiously waiting such communication as the honour of your Lordship’s reply will ?? your memorialists to make them.

We have the honour to subscribe ourselves

My Lord

Your Lordship’s most obedient humble servants

John BROWN

John STUBBS

48 Kenton Street, Bloomsbury, 10th August 1819

 

Names

Age

Profession

Single or

Married

Children

under 18

Children

under 14

Children for whom

18

a deposit

is required

14

John BROWN

28

Fisherman & Trader

Married

-

Two

-

-

John STUBBS

40

Agriculturalist

Do.

-

Five

-

Three

William MORICE

24

Schoolmaster

Single

-

-

-

-

William BRANSTONE

32

Husbandmen

Married

-

Four

-

Two

John BLAKEMORE

27

Do.

Do.

-

One

-

-

George BLAKEMORE

32

Do.

Do.

-

Three

-

One

Matthew MARSHALL

25

Do.

Do.

-

-

-

-

David DAVIS

42

Smith

Do.

One

-

One

-

John PARTINGTON

25

British Wine Maker

Do.

-

-

-

-

William DENHAM

31

Labourer

Do.

-

Two

-

-

Stephen DENHAM

26

Seaman

Do.

-

Two

-

-

John GUNNELL

20

Labourer

Single

-

-

-

-

Frederick STEVENSON

20

Do.

Do.

-

-

-

-

Samuel WEST

30

Carpenter & Agricultural Inst Maker

Married

One

Three

One

One

William WILLIAMS

40

Husbandman

Do.

-

Two

-

-

Benjamin SURMONS

 

Serv’t to John BROWN

Single

-

One

-

-

Ann KEAY

 

Do. to John STUBBS

Single

-

-

-

-

 

 

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