Gradwell, Stephen

To His Excelency the Right Honorabel
Genaral Lord Charels Henry Somerset
Governor and Comander in Chief
of the Forces of the Colony of the Cape
of Good Hope &c &c &c
Stephen Gradwell of Mr. Richard Hayhurst Party
Humbly
Sheweth _
That your memoralist having Resided on his Location
ever since his arrival thearon and through the failure
of Crops and the falling of his house in that much
Rememberd storm which fell in Albany in October 1823
and other Losses in Cattle &c _ He finds his
Fund Greatly Diminished, which has induced your Memoralist
thus humbly and Earnestly to pray that your
Excelency will be pleased to Grant him a Loan of about
Six Hundred Rix Dollers, with which should he be so
Fortunate as to obtain so Great and Desirable a favour from
your Excelency, it would enabel him to purchas a few
Cattle and other necesasery articels _ that would aquire him
the meanes of still Remaining on his Location and proeving
for his Famely by unwearied Industery, and your
memoralist as in Duty bound will ever pray
Lower Caffer Drift October 24th _
Stephen Gradwell _