Butler, Thomas

Baltinglass
18th Sepr. 1819
My Lord
I have the Honor of enclosing you
Mr Grants Recommendation of me as a fit and proper
person to become with Ten Families a Settler in
Africa I have been strongly Recommended to Mr
Grant by some of the most Respectable Men in
this Island who have Known me for twenty years
My claims are also something as I lost nearly 20 yrs
of my Life as a Subaltern & Capn. of Militia during
all the Disturbances here & am now without any
provision whatever except my own property _ The
Heads of the Ten Families who have agreed to come
with me are mostly Men who have been in the
Service and are like myself trained to Arms as
well as to Labour, I have the Hundred pounds
ready to send wherever you direct and am
perfectly willing to comply with the Printed Regulations
sent to me by Mr Grant) in every particular, The most
expensive

part of this undertaking will be the Conveying
the people to the place of Embarkation, &
on that account I will thank you to let me
Know whether the Fleet will touch at any
which of our Sea ports, when it will sail, and
as provisions Seem from the last accounts I see
from the Cape to be scarce whether I will be
allowed to bring out a reasonable quantity of
what I think might be Serviceable as I much
Support them all untill the Crops are Sown
our arrival come round _ From the Printed Regulations
I see Government have reserved to themselves a right
of Selecting the most eligible of the Officers, but
my being Eligible Trust my claim, as I will have
much to do between this and the time of Embarkation
I beg the favor of a Speedy Answer _
and have the Honour to be
My Lord Yr. most Obedt Sert
Thos Butler
I would not Emigrate to any place where
I had not the protection of the British Laws, I have
always Supported them & will do so as long as I breathe