Hanger, Edward

To His Excelancy the Right Honorable /
Lord Charles Henery Somerset /
Governor of the Cape of Good Hope _7+c 7+c 7+c _ /
The Memorial of E\d/ Hanger Humbely /
Sheweth /
That your Memorialest as by unremitting /
Industry Built himself a good House in Grahams Town/
Besides Stocking his Location with one Hundred Head /
of Cattle of Superior quallity and as Expended upward /
of Eighteen Hundred Rix dollars on his Land and Received /
But Little Return your Memorialest as far as the Last Two /
years Suffered by that dreadful Malidy the Rhumatism /
so as to be nearly deprived of the use of his Leggs _ /
Your Memorialest Finds he Cannot Carry on his Busines+s /
as a Carpinter Or Cultivate his Land to the Extent /
Neces+sary to the Suppoart of him Self and Family /
Without the Kind as+sistance of your Excilancy /
Memorialest therefore Most Earnestly prays that /
you wold be Most Graciously pleased to grant /
him a Loan of One Thousand Rix dollars /
for which he will give most Ample Security /
And your Memorialest and Family Will feel /
Themselves in duty bound to pray for /
your Excilancy _ /
Edward Hanger Carpinter /
Dec\r/ 28\th/ 1824 /
Grahams Town /