Emslie, Robert

To Major Blake Adjutant General Cape Town
Memorial of Sergeant Robt Emslie of
Wm. Cocks Party near Kowie Mouth
Your Memorialist hearing the Office of
Sheriff at Grahams Town is or soon will
be vacant will feel for ever indebted if you
will use your Influence with his Excellency
the Governour that your Memorialist may
be appointed to the Situation and your
Memorialist will ever pray.
Or should a Market be established at
Kowie Town your Memorialist will be grateful
should he be appointed Market Master
Charlestown
Kowie nr Mouth 29th.. March 1824

Born/Year: 
1771
Born/Place: 
Aberdeen, Scotland
Wrote from: 
Occupations: 
weaver and army pensioner
Cape archive: 
223/029
TNA reference: 
Scribe: 
Bailie
Type ?: 
Scribal Informants
Rich or Plain: 
Plain Text
Additional information: 
CO48/43/57, 72, 81