Rowles, John

_ His Excellency /
L\d/ C H Somerset _ Governor /
The humble memorial of John Rowles, a Settler /
of the Party of M\r/ John Bailie _ /
Sheweth /
That your Memorialist is labouring under very /
depres+s\d/ circumstances which have continued to increase /
since considerable los+ses and privations he had experienced /
in the month of October last, from the violence of the /
Storms during that period, from which he fears he /
cannot recover unles+s the liberality of y\r/ Excellency /
be exerted in his behalf /
Y\r/ Memorialist desires to explain the cause of not making /
his situation known sooner to y\r./ Excellency is from not knowing /
untill lately of the as+sistance proffer\d/ by y\r/ Excelllency /
and the distance of the Location near 40 Miles from the /
authorities representing y\r/ Excellency in Grahams Town /
the whole of y\r./ Memorialists time having been absorbed /
in the rebuilding of his House 7+c, which he now made _ /
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tenable altho: Single_handed, having not had means to /
obtain help without distres+sing his Family in their Subsistence /
during the time /
Y\r/ Memorialist in the leading particulars of his Los+s /
and inconvenience sustaind states the entire destruction /
of his dwelling 7+c owing to the earth and foundation being /
entirely carried away in the Torrent from which /
your Memorialist had scarcely removed his Family before it /
fell, and in the night must have remain’d exposed to /
the Elements but for the Shelter of a neighbours House /
to which he remov\d./ and has untill now remain’d at /
the same time his Los+s was increas\d./ by the destruction of /
vegetables and a small crop of Corn /
more than your Memorialist has thus retaled he is /
prepard to prove to the Satisfaction of the Authorities /
of y\r./ Excellency or their Subordinates, should any /
doubt exist of the truth of his Statement /
Y\r./ Memorialist understanding that y\r./ Excellency _ /
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_ has been pleased to appropriate a considerable /
Sum of Money by way of Loan to those in neces+sity /
y\r./ memorialist prays. that on the liberality of your /
Excellency he may be placed a Claimant proper /
to receive a Share, {and} he offers full as+surance to /
y\r./ Excellency that {he} altho: much reduced, y\r./ Mem\ist:/ /
has no Debt or incumberance whatever, on his circumstances /
The object to which he would apply it is expres+sly /
for the purchase of Cattle having great advantage in /
the general Location of M\r/ Bailie for Feeding and /
breeding _ Yr. Memorialist considers that such a Sum /
is Three or Four Hundred Rix dollars advanced to him /
for that purpose would with care contribute to his Family /
much good in the use, as well by their Stock and increase /
Secure its future repayment _ and the continued /
respect and gratitude of y\r./ Memorialist and /
his Family _ /
John Rowles /
Bailie’s Location 25\th/ March 1824 /