Hockly, Daniel

Uitenhage Augt 14\th/ 1824//
To//
P.G. Brink Esq\r/ //
Colonial Secretary//
Sir//
I have taken the liberty//
to enclose a Copy of Memorial addres+ed//
to His Excellency the Governor some//
few weeks since fearing my not having//
sent by the regular channel which//
I since understand is through /you\ Sir as//
Colonial Secretary may occasion my//
not receiving a reply. But should this//
repetion appear intrusion the only//
Apology I can make is being much//
pres+ed by the Aquit of the Sequestrator //
for a sum that at the present depres+ed//
state of property in this Village would//
compell me to make sacrifices that//
would utterly ruin me This apology will//
I hope be neces+itated from//
Your//
most obedient humble Servant//
Daniel Hockly//
>>
To//
His Excellency The Right Honourable//
General Lord Charles Henry Somerset//
Govenor 7+ Commander in Chief in//
the Cape of Good Hope 7+ 7+//
The Memorial of Daniel Hockly//
Humbly sheweth that//
Your Excellencies Memorialist first came//
to this Colony with a party of Settlers//
in the Chapman Transport. M\r/ Bailie the//
Head of the party. And that from the time//
of Landing in April 1820. until now//
has taken up his residence in Uitenhage//
following my various branches of Mechannical//
labour When from the great distres+ occa=sioned //
by the failure of the crops combined//
with exerting to introduce more extensive=ly /
the usefull Art And the support of//
a family of 5 Young children finds him=self /
considerably Embaras+ed which//
circumstances have induced Memorialist//
to earnestly request His Excellencies gracious//
Influence to obtain a Loan of 4000 Rix//
Dollars from any of those Institutions or//
Funds over which His Excellency may have//
Interest. This sum being not more then//
half the cost of house 7+ land poses+sed by//
Memorialist 7+ which would be given as well//
as two responsible Services as Security//
And which sum would enable Memorialist//
to prosecute honourably 7+ he hopes usefully//
his various avocations 7+ support his//
family. Your Memorialist would first//
state not by way of claim but for the//
consideration of his Excellency that from//
the time of landing he has in no way//
been a charge or burden on Government//
not having received even a ration or any//
of those advantages so kindly extended to//
his Countrymen. Also only one third of Deposit//
money 7+ that during the first three years//
he has on the average supported from 10//
to 16 Settler Men Women and children without//
without their being burdensome to Government//
In conclusion should your Excellencies Me=morialist /
have in this Instance acted informally//
he hopes it will be pardoned as he is quite//
Ignorant of the regular channel to make//
application this being the first Hoping your//
Excellency will take this into his gracious//
consideration your Memorialist will ever//
pray as in duty bound.//
Uitenhage July 1 1824 /