Bager, George

To His Excellency General Lord C. H. Somerset G.C.B.
Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope _
&c &c &c
The Memorial of George Bager
Humbly Sheweth
That your memorialist belonging
to the Nottingham party of settlers, and that
he has never left his location on any pretence
what ever, and has since being located stroven
his utmost towards cultivation, by which your
memorialist has expended the whole of his little
finances which he had on his arrival in this
Colony, That your memorialist being desirous of still
going on with his agricultural pursuits, most humbly
begs to lay his case before his Excellency the Governor
for his consideration, And humbly prays, his
Excellency to Grant him a lorne of 500RDS on
the usual terms to enable your memorialist to
proceed with some spirit and hopes of success_
And your memorialist as in duty bound will
ever pray
George Bager
Clumber
Novemr 1824