Bradshaw, Samuel

To His Excellency General Lord C.H. Somerset
G.C.B. Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope
&c &c &c.
The Memorial of S.H. and R. Bradshaw
Humbly Sheweth,
That your Memorialists having
received a grant of a piece of Ground at Bathurst
for the erection of a Mill thereon for different
purposes already stated to your Excellency, And
that since having received said grant, your
memorialists has spared no time in bringing
such a desirable object into execution, by exerting
their utmost so to do, but finding the undertaking
to be heavier, and attendant with
greater expence than your memorialists at
first calculated upon, thro unavoidable
disappointments, and unforeseen obstacles
arising from local circumstances _ most
humbly prays your Excellency for a
Government Loan of twelve Hundred
Rix Dollars to enable your memorialists
to complete their Designs in erecting
a

Mill to grind Corn, and to full and
work wollen Cloth for Colonial purposes
And your Memorialists as in duty
bound will ever pray _
S. H. Bradshaw
R. Bradshaw
Bathurst
12th Nov. 1824