Palmer, Thomas

To His Excellency the Right Honourable General//
Lord Charles Henry Somerset, Governor of His//
Majesty's Castle; Town At Settlement of the Cape//
of Good Hope// 7+c 7+c 7+c

May it please your Excellency,//

The Memorial of Thomas Palmer humbly//

Sheweth//

That your Memorialist, who came out to this Colony, in the party//
which left England under the Superintendence of Mr Wilson, had established//
himself in his profes+sion as a Tanner in Grahams Town with the most//
flattering prospects of suces+s, and his affairs were daily becoming increasingly//
prosperous until October last, when the Flood not only carried away in /
its frightful current, and spoiled property to the amount of more than 2700//
Rix Dollars. but rendered your Memorialist by a Rheumatic Complaint incapable//
for many Weeks of providing for himself, and in consequence of which he cannot//
now carry on his s\d/ busines+s with any advantage//

That your Memorialist however has heard with unspeakable plea=sure /
of your Excellencys kindnes+s in the generous supply of Loans to persons who//
have become imbarras+sed in consequence of that disastrous event before alluded//
to, and therefore as he feels confident that a more distres+sing case, does not exist in//
this District, he makes his humble and earnest appeal to your Excellency's//
noble and generous mind, for the Loan of 1000 Rds, and in making this ap=lication /,
he has great pleasure in stating, that two persons of considerable respecta=bility /, are ready to become his Securities /

That your Memorialist in addition to his general moral deportment//
of which he flatters himself the Worshipful The Landrost of Albany will report//
favourably to your Excellency he begs leave to state that his political principles//
have always been influenced by the most underrating fidelity to his King and//
Country, and under \the/ sacred impulse \thereof/ he Joined the S\t/James's and S\t/Mary//
Volunteers, in London and remained among them Eleven Years, during a//
period to which the Historian has attached more than common importance,//
and during which, he supported by his own personal property, all the expences of//
that long military connection, arising from clothes, Accountrements 7+c and never
did he shrink from any duty which the exigency of the times prescribed, through//
his respected Officers, and their testimonials now in his poses+sion, \at/ {and} the disbanding//
of the Troop, when Peace had terminated the arduous struggle, are a comencing//
proof /

That your Memorialist immediately on the publication of y\r/ Excellency's//
proclamation respecting "The Albany Levy" again manifested his patriotism//
and Joined the first Troop of Cavalry, and he therefore earnestly intreats that//
your Excellency will be pleased to grant him a favourable answer to the Prayer//
of this his Memorial, and he will ever feel himself in duty bound to pray//

Grahams Town March 30\th/_1824 Tho\s/ Palmer. /