Cock, Thomas

To His Excellency Sir Rufane Shaw
Donkin K. G. B. Governor and
Commander in Chief of the Cape of Good
Hope and its Dependencies
The humble Memorial of Thomas
Cock Surgeon &c of Mr. Willsons Party of
Settlers,
Sheweth that your Memorialist
having had the misfortune to lose his
Wife and Three Children on his Passage to
this Colony and being left with Four others
the Eldest of whom just Nine Years Old, feels
himself quite inadequate to the important
charge of attending to their Education, he
therefore humbly intreats your Excellencys
Permission to proceed to Cape Town for the purpose
of Endevouring to find some proper Person to place
his unfortunate Children with, or of returning
with them to England, and your Memorialist
as in duty bound will ever pray
Thomas Cock