Pirie, Robert

To His Excellency
Lord C. H. Somerset
Governor of the
Cape of Good Hope
&c &c &c
The Memorial of Robert Pirie
Humbly Sheweth
That your Memorialist has remained
and laboured hard on his Location ever
since he arrived in the Colony, To this
the Revd Mr Boardman will bear
Testimony. _
That your Memorialist has got about
Eight Acres of Land in a good State of
Cultivation, forty head of Cattle and an
English Cart.
That your Memorialist wishes
to increase his Stock of Cattle and
build himself a little House,
And humbly prays your Excellency
will be pleased to grant him a Loan
of Six hundred Rix dollars
for which term he will give good
Security _ And your Memorialist
as in duty bound will ever pray
&c &c &c
Beaufort Valle
28. Octr 1824
Robt Pirie