Radford, Joseph

Grahams Town Novr 28 1824
To
His Excellency Lord Charles Henry Sommersett
Governor of the Colony of the Cape of good Hope
General and Commander in Chief of the Forces
&c. &c. &c.
The Petition of Joseph Radford Settler
Humbly Sheweth
That your Petitioner came out to this
Colony as a free Settler in the Nottingham
Party
That your Petitioner humbly requests
your Excellency to grant him a Colonial
That your Petitioner relying on

your Excellency granting him the
tenor of this Petition will as in duty
bound ever pray
Joseph Radford