Halstead, Richard

May it Please Your Excellency, /
The Memorial of Richard Halstead most /
Humbly and Respecfully Sheweth. That he came out /
to this Colony in the Party of M\r/ Hayhurst from whom /
in consequence of a representation to Your Ex=cellency /
he was discharged and obtained a Colonial Pas+s. /
Your Memorialist is a Dyer by Trade with /
a Wife and 4 helples+s Children to maintain and Nourish . /
On his arrival at this Town he was in anxious expectation /
of getting some employment in the busines+s he has /
been most lamentably dis+sappointed. A Train of Mis+sfort=unes/
have constantly himself and Indigent Family for /
prior to your Memorialist leaving Algoa Bay he was /
Robbed of a Box containing their clothes and All. and /
upon their arrival Cape Town but for the benevolence /
of a few charitable individuals they must have Perished /
Your Memorialist is in a very bad state of /
health the climate not agreeing with his constitution /
with a Mind broken and Depres+sed with the troubles that /
himself 7+ wretched Family have encounter’d. Severed from /
Kindred or Friends to aid or support him under those /
accumulated Trials. Your Memorialist most fervently /
implores that Your Excellency in your wonted bene=volence /
and humanity will be graciously Pleased to /
grant Your Memorialist a Pas+sage for himself and /
Family to their native Country on any Conditions /
as they are in the utmost Distres+s . /
Your Memorialist /
Will ever Pray 7+c 7+c 7+c /
Richard Halstead /