Hodgkinson, George

To His Excellency General Lord C. H. Somerset
Govenor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope
The Memorial of George Hodgkinson
Humbly Sheweth
That your Memorialist belongs to
the Nottingham Party of settlers, and that I have
never left my location on any pretence whatever, and have
since being located stroven my utmost towards cultivation
by which I have expended the whole of my little finances
which I had on my arrival in this Colony, And that
I am still desirous of going on with my agricultural
pursuits most humbly begs to lay my case before your Excellency
for his consideration, And humbly prays your Excellency
to grant me a lone of 600 RDS 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 Hodgkinson
Clumber
Novr 1824