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Showing posts with label emigration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emigration. Show all posts
Thursday, 28 September 2017

28th September 1817: Viscount Lascelles writes to Lord Sidmouth about the plight of the Croppers

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My dear Lord. In the course of the last Session of [Parliament] your Lordship may recollect that I together with a Deputation from the Clo...
Tuesday, 26 September 2017

26th September 1817: The informers, Blackburn & Burton, leave Nottingham forever, surrounded by an angry crowd

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On Friday 26th September 1817, the Luddites turned informers John Blackburn & William Burton left Nottingham for London, their ultimate ...
Monday, 25 September 2017

25th September 1817: Henry Enfield informs Lord Sidmouth of the arrangements for the informers Blackburn & Burton

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Nottingham Sept. 25th 1817. My Lord, In consequence of Mr. Lockett’s communication to me of your Lordship’s arrangements relative to Bur...
Friday, 22 September 2017

22nd September 1817: Jeffery Lockett sends a description of the informers Blackburn & Burton to government

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Derby September 22d 1817 Dear Sir William Burton is 21 years of age, and his wife, Leah, also twenty one. They have but one child,―a dau...
Wednesday, 13 September 2017

13th September 1817: The Secretary for the Colonies authorises Blackburn & Burton's emigration to Canada

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Downing Street 13th September 1817. Mr Lord, I have had the honor of receiving your Lordship’s letter recommending to my particular Cons...