Short, Joseph

To His Excellency The Right Honourable /
General 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 {John} /Joseph\ Short most humbly /
Sheweth /
That your Excellency’s Memorialist (who has a Wife and /
Five Children) belongs to the party which left England under the /
superintendance of M\r/ Sephton _ That he has remained on his Location /
ever since the period of arrival thereon, and has ploughed Ten Acres of Land /
That your Excellency’s Memorialist, by his unwearied industry /
has succeeded in purchasing a Waggon, and by which he chiefly supported /
his family, but having suffered very severely by the Floods in 1821 and /
1823 he has been obliged to dispose of it again, under great disad=vantages /,
and therefore humbly prays that your Excellency will be /
graciously pleased to grant him a Loan of Six Hundred Rix Dollars /
and for which he is ready to give the most undeniable security, and /
your Memorialist as in duty bound will ever pray. /
Grahams Town Nov\r/ 8\th/ 1824 / Joseph Short /