Hanger, Edward

To His Excellency General The Right Honourable /
Lord Charles Henry Somerset, Governor of His Majesty’s /
Castle; Town and Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope /
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May it please your Excellency /
The Memorial of Edward Hanger belonging to M\r/ Howard’s party most humbly /
Sheweth /
That your Excellencys Memorialist (who resides in Grahams /
Town) forwarded a Petition to your Excellency upwards of Three Months ago, praying for a /
Colonial Pas+s, but to which he has not yet been favoured with your Excellency’s reply /
and supposing (amidst all the multiplicity of important engagements with which your /
Excellency’s time must be occupied) that the subject may have been obliterated form your /
memory, he ventures in great humility to restate his case, for your Excellency’s kind and /
gracious consideration, hoping for the exercise of that well known indulgence /with\ which your /
Excellency has deigned to favour others in similar circumstances while he intreats you /
to pardon the liberty he has hereby taken by a second application /
That your Excellency’s Memorialist is by Trade a Carpenter and /
Builder, and has been for a considerable time in the employment of M\r/ Peter Retief, of this Town, /
and who is in contract with the Colonial Government for the building of Barracks 7+c, and /
for whom your Memorialist has the sole management of that extensive concern: /
That your Excellency’s Memorialist is frequently dispatched by his /
Employer to a considerable distance from hence, when, not only according to the Laws of the /
Colony (and to which he desires to bow in willing submis+sion) a Pas+s is required but is absolutely /
neces+sary for your Memorialist in order that he may obtain the meanest As+sylum from the /
inclemency of a midnight sky, for he cannot pos+sibly be received into the Cottage of the Dutch /
without the production of such a Document, and sometimes the important design of his /
Journey would be defeated if the smallest procrastination was to ensue, and hence a Colonial /
Pas+s would be productive of great advantages both to himself and his employer and super=cede /
the neces+sity of repeated applications to the Worshipful The Landdrost of Albany, who /
may be so engaged as to prevent the pos+sibility of granting it at the moment it may be required /
That your Excellency’s Memorialist notwithstanding his residence /
in Grahams Town continues to expend considerable sums in the cultivation and improve=ment /
of his Farm at Salem Hills, and therefore humbly prays for the exercise of your /
Excellency’s clemency and goodnes+s towards him, by granting him a Colonial Pas+s /
for the purpose before stated /
That your Excellency’s Memorialist finding it extremely diffi=cult /
to obtain Bread for his family during this alarming season of dearth and peril /
humbly prays that your Excellency will be graciously pleased with your accustomed /
goodnes+s to allow him to purchase One Barrel of Flour every Six Weeks from His /
Majesty’s stores for prompt payment and your Memorialist (as in duty bound), will /
ever pray for your Excellency and your Illustrious family. /
Grahams Town Aug\t/ 9\th/ 1822 /
This is to certify that M\r/ Edward Hanger who belongs to my party /
has at this Moment 6 Acres of land in cultivation at this place and has /
been at considerable expence in clearing it for ploughing and therefore I beg /
leave to recomend him to your Excellency as /a\ deserving man /
Salem Hills Aug\t/ 12\th/ 1822 /
W\m/ Howard /