Mainman, Thomas

To His Excellency the Right Honourable Lord /
Charles Henry Somerset, General and Command=er /
in Chief of the Colony of the Cape of /
Good Hope 7+c. 7+c. 7+c. 7+c. /
The Memorial of Thomas Mainman /
humbly sheweth /
That your memorialist came to /
this Colony, in the Party under the direction /
of Mes+s\rs./ Brown 7+ Stubbs from whom /
he has obtained his discharge. /
That your memorialist having occasion /
in the way of busines+s to visit other Districts /
contiguous to that of Albany, humbly /
requests your Excellency to grant him a /
Colonial pas+s for that purpose, and also /
that it may be transmited to Colonel Cuyler /
Landdrost of Uitenhage, your memorialist /
having been for some time resident in /
that District /
and your memorialist as in /
duty bound shall ever pray 7+c. 7+c /
Thomas Mainman /
Uitenhage /
Jan\[y]/ 24\th/ 1824 _ /