Mouncey, Charles

To His Excellency Lord C. H.
Somerset Governor
of the Cape of Good Hope
&c &c &c
The Memorial of Charles Mouncey _
Humbly Sheweth
That your Memorialist has remained
on his Location ever since he came to this
Colony.
That your Memorialist has got ten
Acres of Land in a good State of Cultivation
and has a Farther Allotment of about
Seven Hundred Acres of of Pasturage &c
That your Memorialist has got
a Waggon forty head of Cattle and
five Horses .
That your Memorialist is desirous
desirous of increasing his Stock
of Cattle &c. And humbly prays
Your Excellency will be pleased
to grant him a Loan of One
Thousand Rix Dollars for which
he will give good Security, and
Your Memorialist as in duty _
bound will ever pray &c &c &c
Wentworth
27 Octr 1824
Chas Mouncey

Born/Year: 
1776
Born/Place: 
Sheffield
Wrote from: 
Occupations: 
merchant
Cape archive: 
223/120
TNA reference: 
CO48/44/780
Scribe: 
Hand D
Type ?: 
Scribal Informants
Rich or Plain: 
Plain Text
Additional information: 
settler party: Mouncey cf. CO48/44/780, 810 sg match