Abeona Survivors

May it please your Exellency /
We the undersigned Five Men /
of the few survivors that were saved from the Abeona /
after losing all our Families and Property in that mel=incholy /
catastrophe and after our return finding little /
comfort at home again petitioned Government through /
the medium of /the\ Magistrate of Glasgow to grant /
us lands as near as possible to Cape town consistant /
with the views of Government and at the same /
time petitioned for agricultural impliments and /
seeds to our Farms, which petition being kindly /
granted us along with a passage we accordingly /
preceeded, but upon our arrival here not being /
permitted to land we took the earliest opportunity /
of forwarding your letter which we received in /
Earl Bathurst Office and which we were told would /
be conducive to our interest personaly to deliver into /
your hands __ may it therefore please your Exellency /
to grant us lands in as favourable a situation as /
possible consistant with the interest of the Colony /
along with agricultural impliments and seeds _ /
should you be inclined for any further enquiry we /
shall be very happy to wait upon your Exellency /
and there fully explain _ your answer to /the\ above /
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will greatly oblidge /
Your very Humble 7+ Most obed\t/ Servants /
James Clark /
Robert Thomson /
John M\c/Laren /
John M\c/Lean /
Thomas Reid and Wife /

Simons Bay on board the /
Sappho _ August 28\th/ [1821] /