Fryer, Richard

Cape Town
March 22. 1821
Sir
I beg leave respectfully to lay
before you for the consideration of
His Excellency, a request, which I am
emboldened to make, by the Kindness
which has been shewn towards the
settlers by the Colonial Government
That having paid Mr Woodcock
in England Twenty Pounds for the Land,
that having expended more than Eighty
Pounds upon the cultivation of it in
the Kleine Valley, without reaping the
least advantage from it in consequence
of being deprived of the water by those
who lived above, that as the small
capital I brought with me being
nearly exhausted obliges me to
seek for some employment, my humble
prayer is, That if I should be fortunate
enough to obtain some situation at
Cape Town or elsewhere, I may not
To Colonel Bird
Colonial Secretary
& & &

forfeit my title to the Land that is
ordered for me; but still consider it
mine, altho I may not have realized
again sufficient Capital to reside upon
it for these two years; as I need not
assure His Excellency that without
some little money, it is impossible to
bring the Land into a state of
Cultivation.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Very respectfully
Your most Obedt Humble Servt
Richard Fryer