Martinson, George

Markhaim House
May 14th 1821.
Sir,
The Honor of your Excellencys
kindness, I have experienced, when I applied
to you last June at Grahams Town, will
never be forgot by me.
I applied to have my Wife and Children
sent out to me at the Government expence,
it not being in my power to pay their passage
here, you considered my case as distressing,
for our Ship the Nautilus, run on the
Goodwin Sands, expecting to go to pieces,
my Wife and Children were to have come
on board, at Deal or Portsmouth, but owing
to this accident we put out to Sea without
stopping at either place.
Your Excellency pitied my case, saying
you would communicate with the
Colonial Office, but I have received a
Letter from my Wife, who with her family
are in great distress, she applied to the
Colonial Office, but Mr Goulbourn in
reply says , he is not warranted in sending
my family out at the Government
expence _ Since I have been in the Colony
I have ruptured myself so as almost to
prevent manual labor_
I hope your Excellency will take my
sake into consideration, to grant me a
Pass, to my distressed Wife and Children
I beg to remain Your Excellencys
Obt, Humble Servant,
G. Martinson.