Filmore, Elizabeth

To His Excellency /
Gen\l/ Lord C H Somerset /
Governor Commander /
of the Forces 7+c 7+c 7+c /
Most Humbly Sheweth /
That Your Excellency’s /
Memorialist came here as a /
Settler in M\r/ Sefton’s Party /
That Your Excellency’s Memorialist /
from the Death of her husband /
is left destitute 7+ Friendles+s in /
this colony 7+ thro age incapable /
of earning a livelihood. but /
in her native country England /
has wealthy 7+ Respectable Friends /
capable of making her old days /
comfortable. /
Memorialist /
>
therefore Most Humbly Prays /
Your Excellency will be Gracious=ly /
Pleased to Grant her /
a Colonial Pas+s to Proceed to /
Cape Town 7+ from thence /
to England. /
And Memorialist as in /
duty bound shall ever Pray /
Port Elizabeth /
1\st/ June 1824 /