Stroud, John & Penny, George

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 Stroud, Carpenter and George Penny, Labourer, most humbly /
Sheweth /
That your Excellency’s Memorialists came to this Colony /
in the Party which left England under the superintendence of /
Captain D Campbell from whom they have each obtained his /
discharge, and as no impediment exists # to their removal from /
the District after they have obtained your Excellency’s sanction /
they humbly pray that you will be graciously pleased to grant /
them individually a Colonial Pas+s, and your Memorialist as /
in duty bound will ever pray. /
John Stround /
The mark of X /
George Penny /
Grahams Town Nov\r/ 23\rd _ 1824 /