Dyason, George

To His Excellency The Right Honorable General
Lord Charles Henry Somerset
Governor and Commander in Chief of His Majestys
Castle, Town and Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope
&c &c &c
The memorial of George Dyason most
humbly and respectfully sheweth.
That your Excellencys memorialist was upon
his arrival in This Colony possessed of very ample means
for the support and comfort of the party whom your
memorialist brought out, as well as for the purposes
of pursuing the vocation of agriculture, which memorialist
has followed to the extent of his means.
That from the casualties which have occurred,
and consequent difficulty of supporting such expenditure
without adequate return, your memorialist has been
very much reduced in his pecuniary resources, has
expended in the cultivation of his land no less than
Ten Thousand rixdollars, and was one of the principle
sufferes by the floods of October 1823 which the enclosed
document, submitted for your Excellencys consideration,
will shew _
That in consequence of the great risk and
loss attending the cultivation of your memorialists land
He was induced to apply to your Excellency for a small
grant

grant of land near Grahams Town, and which Your
Excellency was graciously pleased to grant him.
That Your Memorialist has erected an
expensive stone built dwelling House thereon, and
by otherwise improving the land by inclosing and
cultivating of it has expended a further sum of Eight
Thousand rixdollars.
Your memorialist therefore humbly prays
that Your Excillency will be pleased to grant him
a loan of Fifteen hundred rixdollars to enable him
to pursue his plan of improvement and your memorialist
will as in duty bound ever pray.
Grahams Town
28th October 1824