"Bailie's party of 1820 settlers comprised 84 men and their families who banded together under the leadership of John Bailie to take advantage of the British government's 1819 scheme of assisted emigration to the Cape of Good Hope. As a unit, the party was short-lived. It was officially subdivided five weeks after landing at Algoa Bay, and the dispersal of its members to the established towns of the colony began even sooner."--Preface