KAYE, John

 

172

No.14 Tower Street

Near the Assylum

Westminster Road

July 21st 1819

Sir,

            According to the advertisement in the paper concerning the cultivation of the colony at the Cape of Good Hope i have a great inclination of going there to settle should it meet your approbation to give me any encouragement that by my industry i may maintain a livelyhood for my wife & family which is a young industrious woman 30 years of age & 3 children 2 girls & one boy the oldest girl 10 years the boy 5 years & the young one 2 years of age & myself 35 by trade a carpenter & joiner was brought up as a farmer in the county of Surry have a brother as rents a share of farm now at the same place & if you will acquaint me with your proposials I knows a young man & his wife trade a carpenter no children & a young man a sawyer & his wife & one child & if you want farming men to go i have no dout but i can get plenty that would like to go with me & i should like to know what goods & tools &c we are allowed to take with us & the terms of support when we land on the colony.

I remain your most your most humble servant

Jesse KAYE

Carpenter

 

 

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