BUNN, T (re Frome settlers)
453-457
Frome, Somersetshire
30 Aug 1819
Sir,
I inclose a list of more than fifty persons who desire to be colonists at the Cape of Good Hope if approved by Government. This Town contains about ten thousand inhabitants, many of whom are out of employ, and I apprehend you will approve if the emigration of a part of them in some proportion to the number who emigrate from other places.
The enquirers will be most obliged if you favour them with answers to such of the questions on the other side as you may think proper to reply to. They attend again Monday the sixth of September and if it does not suit your convenience to write so soon they will come again the Monday following.
A very few of those who can advance ten pounds can advance a larger sum. When I am favoured with your answer I shall apply to the parish to advance for others.
I am Sir your humble servant
T. BUNN
Is the person to be placed at the head of ten or more individuals to receive the grant of 1000 or more acres? Or will the acres be granted to each individual?
Will the captain of ten be entitled to any priviledge or authority? Is he to be ?elected? by the parties themselves? Will he be summoned to London to receive instructions?
Will the pensioners continue to receive their pensions? Will any part of this pension be advanced to enable them to go?
Will any provision be made for subsistence on their arrival, besides the return of the ten pounds? Or for taking them from their landing place to their intended residence? Or for furnishing them with seeds and tools?
[hole in paper] are they to attend....to embark?
Charles HIGHMAN [sic], 21, Broadway Frome, Labourer
William HICKMAN, 18, Chapmanslade Wilts., Carpenter
James THATCHER, 34, Leys Fromefield Frome, Labourer
John GOODLAND, 27, Vicarage Street Frome, Labourer
Charles HIGHMAN, Slanderwick, Weaver and Bookseller
Nathaniel WATTS, 28, Trooper Street Frome, Carpenter
John CHAPMAN, 26, Heyford, Frome, Carpenter
Francis WATTS, 27, Vicarage Street Frome, Clothworker
Joshua HAMMOND, 37, Union Street Frome, Clothworker
William POPE, 30, Newbuildings Frome, Sawyer
John CURTIS, 18, Broadway Frome, Weaver
Joseph WEAKLEY, 27, Cox’s Hill Frome, Gardener
Thomas PAINE, 22, Fromefield Frome, Labourer
William HIGHMAN [sic], 16, Broadway Frome, Clothmaker
Joseph JENKINS, 19, Vicarage Street Frome, Clothmaker
James CRADDON, 26, Bridge Frome, Cooper & Lath Maker
James COOMBS, 22, Morgan’s Lane Frome, Clothmaker
William GILBERT, 18, Lower Heyford Frome, Weaver
Joseph HILL, 23, Newbuildings Frome, Weaver
James WALLIS, 25, Newbuildings Frome, Weaver
John WEBB, 25, Newbuildings Frome, Weaver
Daniel FARLEY, 28, Cox’s Hill Frome, Labourer
James COLLEDGE, 35, Long Row Frome, Clothworker
Charles KING, 18, Lower Heyford Frome, Mason
John SHEENE, 19, Long Row Frome, Clothworker
Samuel DAINTON, 23, King Street Frome, Tinsman
William BURGE, 22, Butt Frome, Weaver, Wife
Thomas WILKINS, 16, Blunt Street Frome, Weaver
William SPARROW, 22, Grope Lane Frome, Weaver
Thomas MADDOX, 33, Diltons Marsh Wilts., Labourer
Alexander HILLMAN, 26, Naish’s Street Frome, Weaver
Josiah YOUNG, 22, Bulton Street Frome, Weaver
James BENNETT, 19, Newbuildings Frome, Weaver
Daniel WATTS, 18, Vicarage Street Frome, Cothworker
Robert WATTS, 24, Diltons Marsh Wilts., Labourer
James FERRIS, 38, Diltons Marsh Wilts., Labourer
George RICHARDS, 40, Vicarage Street Frome, Labourer
James BALE, 25, Naish’s Street Frome, Shoemaker
William DICKS, 29, Newbuildings Frome, Weaver
James BAKER, 17, Bridge Street Frome, Twine maker
William CLIFFORD, 34, Butts Frome, Labourer
John COULSTONE, 32, Butts Frome, Labourer
Caleb LONG, 35, Whatley Somerset, Labourer
Henry DENHAM, 18, Troopers Street Frome, Clothworker
John ELLIOTT, 29, Vicarage Street Frome, Clothworker
Charles BLANNING, 18, Cottles Oak Frome, Weaver
John BISHOP, 21, Broadway Frome, Clothworker
William JENKINS, 17, Vicarage Street Frome, Clothworker
Michael PARROTT, 18, Feltham near Frome, Labourer
Enos HAND, 22, Bridge Street Frome, Plasterer & Tiler
Gilbert PARSONS, 22 Broadway Frome, Tailor
James Star, 30, Broadway Frome, Weaver
Benjamin PENNY, 26, Vicarage Street Frome, Weaver
James RUDDOCK, 24, Union Street Frome, Clothworker
Richard HILL, 19, Newbuildings Frome, Weaver
Stephen BOURNE, 39, Heyford Frome, Baker Farmer & Carpenter
Benjamin SPAREY, 35, Butts Frome, Labourer
George MAGGS, 19, Horningham Wilts., Labourer
David LEAR, 28, Naish’s Street Frome, Weaver
William THATCHER, 33, Mount Pleasant Frome, Labourer
523
Frome, 23 Sept 1819
Sir,
Mr. BOURNE, whose list of colonists I inclose, has desired me to say that he is ready to conform to all the regulations expressed in the letter with which you favoured me, and respectfully requests to be informed whether his proposal of going to the Cape of Good Hope is accepted? where and when the money is to be deposited? and when and where he and his party are to embark?
I have no connection with these people but have merely assisted them to obtain the aid which the good ?intentions? of Government have provided.
I am Sir your humble servant
T. BUNN
546/548
Frome 27th Sept 1819
Sir,
I enclose a second list of intended colonists at the Cape of Good Hope which has been brought to me that I might transmit it for approbation of Government
I am Sir your humble servant
T. BUNN
Beckington, Somerset 22 September 1819
Name and Description of the Person taking out the Settlers:
Philip PINNOCK, Farmer 32
Elizabeth PINNOCK 26
Henrietta PINNOCK their daughter aged 3
Joseph PINNOCK their son aged 1
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Names of the Settlers |
Profession or Trade |
Age |
Names of the Women |
Age |
Male Children |
Age |
Female Children |
Age |
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Thomas TAYLOR |
Mason |
37 |
[obscured] |
36 |
|
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Martha |
7 |
|
Henry BATFORD |
Mason |
20 |
[obscured] |
29 |
|
|
??/Sarah |
4/3m |
|
William TURNER |
Mason |
24 |
[obscured] |
25 |
Charles |
2 |
Ann |
4 |
|
Daniel FARLEY |
Labour |
28 |
Elizabeth |
27 |
William/James |
5/2 |
Sarah |
3 |
|
James JENNINGS |
Labour |
28 |
[obscured] |
37 |
Benjamin |
3 |
|
|
|
Ambrose NICKLOS |
Labour |
28 |
[obscured] |
24 |
George |
3 |
|
|
|
John TUCKER |
Labour |
26 |
[obscured] |
22 |
John |
1 |
|
|
|
William ADLAM |
Labour |
19 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Isaac NICKLOS |
Labour |
25 |
[obscured |
30 |
Seward |
1 |
Jane |
2 |
|
John BARRETT |
Farmer |
34 |
[obscured] |
35 |
John |
18 |
Mary/Betty |
7/3 |
|
Thomas WARREN |
Gardener |
43 |
Mary |
39 |
James |
16 |
|
|
|
John HAND |
Mason |
28 |
|
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We whose names are hereto under scribed do certify that the abovementioned Philip PINNOCK is a proper person to take out the colonists.
William HENDERSON
John BICKFORD
Overseers, Beckington
574
Frome 1 Oct 1819
Sir,
I now inclose a third list of intended colonists to the Cape of Good Hope. These people on the within list are volunteers, but are to have the required payment made by the parish. I beg leave to refer to my letter of the 23rd Sept last for the enquiries which the colonists are desirous to make.
I am Sir your humble servant
T. BUNN
619
Frome, October 1819
Sir,
In the letter in which I inclosed Mr. Stephen BOURNE’s list of settlers at the Cape of Good Hope I stated that I had no connection with these people but only assisted them in forwarding their application, or to that effect, otherwise it would have given me more pain to represent what follows.
There are few persons who desire to leave England without having some cause of uneasiness, but it seems Stephen BOURNE was in debt and about ten days ago was arrested and is now in the gaol at Dorchester. He has expressed a willingness that another leader should be chosen, and the men, having families and having disposed of part of their property, are very anxious to proceed. Under the circumstances they have chosen a leader and have inserted some new [names] in the room of some who were unwilling to go and on their behalf I return the list filled up and submit the whole new form to Lord BATHURST
I am Sir your humble servant
T. BUNN
620
Frome, Somersetshire
Those whose names are hereto subscribed do hereby certify that John COLSTON aged 32 years, late serjeant in the sixty sixth Regiment of Foot, is a proper person to take out a party of colonists to the Cape of Good Hope.
Dated this seventh day of October 1819
Richard WILLOUGHBY
Wm. ROSSITER
Churchwardens
J. DUDDEN
Isaac RAWLINGS
Overseers
736
Frome, 3rd December 1819
Sir,
I am obliged for the notice you favoured me with respecting COLSTON’s deposit money. BOURNE, the first Captain of this party, was imprisoned for debt. You permitted them to choose another leader and afterwards COLSTON, who is one of the pensioners called out on account of the late disturbances, deserted his party to join his regiment, leaving some of the families who had sold their effects in the greatest wretchedness. After this second failure I became ashamed of continuing the correspondence, lest you should impute any blame to me, though I have only endeavoured to assist the lower classes, who suffer from the failure of trade, in any manner which the Government approved.
I advised the disappointed people to join another party instead of some who had withdrawn themselves, which I believe they have done.
I am Sir your humble servant
T. BUNN