Manly, Thomas

To his Excellency the Right Honb\le/ /
Lord Charles Henry Somerset /
Governor 7+ Commander in Chief of his /
Majestys Forces 7+ 7+ 7+ _ /
Cape of Good Hope /
The Memorial of Thomas Manby, /
(Farmer of Liversages Party of Settlers, /
Most humbly 7+ respectfuly Sheweth _ /
That your Memorialist in /
spite of great los+ses on his Location /
(among the rest 50 Head of Cattle /
taken by the Caffrees) has Succeeded /
by the unremitting industry of /
himself and family in accumulating /
a Stock of 80 head of Cattle _ that /
being situated on the road between /
Grahams Town and the Kowie, /
your Memorialist has also /
erected a Substantial Stone House /
of 56 by 17 feet, which he intends /
to employ as an Inn, but from /
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his other neces+sary expenditure, /
finds himself utterly unable to /
Roof it in, without disposing of /
Stock, and thus depriving himself /
of his means of Support. _ /
Memorialist therefore humbly /
prays that your Excellency will be /
pleased to allow him to be as+sisted /
with a Loan to the amount of /
Eight Hundred Rix Dollars , (800) /
for which your Memorialist can /
give such Security as your Excellency /
may be pleased to require _ /
And your Memorialist will be ever /
as in duty bound to pray _ /
Thomas Manby /
Albany. Nov\r/ 13\th/ [1824] /