Turvey, Edward

To His Excellency Lord Charles Somerset
Governor and Commander in Chief of all
the forces at the Cape of Good Hope &c &c &c
Memorial of Edward Turvey,
Landscape painter and Drawing Master,
Humbly Sheweth that
your Memrst in common with the Other
Setlers has Sufferd many tryals and
privations, more particularly on account
of his profession not being in request in
the first years of this Colony. nor induced
untill very lately) together with his not
being able to Retain in his Service, those
Servents he Brought out with him, _
It would be harmful to recount
to your Excellency the difficulties your
Memrst has had to contend with, in
Endevours to Support an aged Father
above 80 years of age dead within 2 last years )
a Wife and five Helpless Children the three
Eldest of which are Females, His Eldest Boy
now only 23 years of age,

Their is nothing your Memrs has
found more injurious then the want
of a propper place to draw in, particularly
Landscapes in Oil the Sending of which
to England of Views of this Colony would
produce a profitable Return, but those
your Memrst has attempted with the
Exception of 2. has been destroyd by
the Dust before they could be furnished
Your Memrst has purchased
a piece of Ground in Grahams Town
for the purpose of Building a House
on that would answer his purpose
but finds his present means inadequate to
to Compleat it _
The prayer therefore of
Your Memrst is that your Excellency
would be gratiously pleased to
advance your Memrst a loan of
Six Hundred Rds for which your
Memr can procure two Securities
and would also make over the

land, and House propossed to be Compleated
in addition, and your Memrs as in
duty Bound will Ever Pray
Your Memrs begs leave to State
to your Excellency that He was
personally Known to and patronaged for
12 years by the Dowager Countess of
Liverpool, through whose interest He
obtained His Grant in this Colony
and Had the Honor of bearing
letters of Recommendation from Mrs
Ladyship to your Excellency who
being in England on His arrival
in the Colony presented them to
Colonil Somerset .
Edwd Turvey
22 Novr 1824
Grahams Town