Wright, Benjamin

To His Excellency Lord Charles Henry Somersett
Governor of the Cape of Good Hope &c &c &c
The Memorial of Benjaman Wright
Saddler of Mr Turveys party
Sheweth
That your memorialist has been a Resident
of Grahams Town four Years two years of which
period he worked journey work, but from the advice
of some of the most Respectable Inhabitants
was Induced to Commence business on his own
account; with little or no Capital; and has been
so fortunate as to have formed a Connexion amongst
the most Respectable Classes of persons
Military, and Civil _ Your Memorialist by a diligent
perseverance has at lenght been able to purchase
a piece of land; whereon he has built a house
& your Memorialist is a Maried Man and has Two
apprentices. is greatly encouraged by the public but
is not enabled to push himself forward having no
Capital, or means of procuring the necessary articles
in his Saw Business. and the very few articles which
your Memorialist has hitherto been able to procure
on the frontiers, has proved to be at an exorbitant
price and of an inferior Quality, but by your Excellencys
Granting your Memorialist a lone, he would be
enabled to establish a Connexion in Cape Town
where Memorialist could get Regularly Supplyed

your Memorialist has been frequently
for Many days not being able to procure
the Requisite articles in this time in Grahams
Town, and if in Consideration of these Circumstances
Your Excellency would be pleased to
Grant Memorialist a Loan of Rds 400 your
Memorialist shall find Such Security as May
be required and also trusts he shall give Sufficient
proofs of an unblemished Character
and your Memorialist as in duty Bound will
ever Pray _
Grahams Town Novr 26th 1824