Flanegan, Timothy

To His Excellency The Right Honble /
General Lord Charles Henry Somerset, /
Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony /
of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope 7+c. 7+c. 7+c. /
The humble Memorial of Timothy
Flanegan most respectfully, /
Sheweth, /
That your Excellency’s Memorialist being located /
a distance of forty Miles from a Market /
is unable to transport produce tither /
through want of a Vehicle for the purpose, /
and which he is unable to obtain from /
having exhausted his means in the purchase /
of Cattle, and from, hitherto, unsucces+sful /
and laboriuos exertions in Agriculture. = /
That your Excellency’s Memorialist /
is induced, therefore, most humbly and /
respectfully to pray that your Excellency /
will be pleased to grant him a Loan of /
five Hundred Rix dollars, which sum /
would enable your Memorialist to /
convey the produce of his Farm to a /
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Market, from whence he would be /
enabled to return with those comforts /
and neces+saries of which himself and /
family are utterly destitute. /
That your Excellency’s Memorialist /
having a considerable herd of Cattle /
would be enabled, should your Excellency /
be pleased to accede to his request, to get /
adequate security for the repayment. /
And your Excellency’s Memorialist /
as in duty bound will ever pray /
Grahams Town /
26\th/ Nov\r/ 1824 /
T. Flanegan /