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joboy
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Re: 1820 Settler Correspondence
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 21 November 06 00:42 UTC (UK) »
Hello Sue and thanks for past help.
I assume that there would have been a form or perhaps a questionaire that potential emigrants to the 'Settlers Scheme' would have been necessary to submit?.
If this is so would there be anyway to peruse a 'blank' of such form?
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Re: 1820 Settler Correspondence
« Reply #16 on: Tuesday 21 November 06 09:10 UTC (UK) »
Initially the scheme was announced in the newspapers and various flyers and people had to apply in writing to the Colonial Office for further particulars. They were initially sent a 'circular letter' which was published in the Times on 17 July 1819. I attach the cutting from the Times Digital Archive. Once they were accepted as a party leader then the head settler had to fill in a printed return with the names and details of all the men he proposed taking with him, and these returns are at Kew in CO48/47

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Re: 1820 Settler Correspondence
« Reply #17 on: Tuesday 21 November 06 09:30 UTC (UK) »
Thank you for that Sue ........ it does seem to have been a most generous scheme.
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