Abeona Survivors

May it please your Exellency
We the undersigned Five Men
of the few survivors that were saved from the Abeona
after losing all our Families and Property in that melincholy
catastrophe and after our return finding little
comfort at home again petitioned Government through
the medium of the Magistrate of Glasgow to grant
us lands as near as possible to Cape town consistant
with the views of Government and at the same
time petitioned for agricultural impliments and
seeds to our Farms, which petition being kindly
granted us along with a passage we accordingly
preceeded, but upon our arrival here not being
permitted to land we took the earliest opportunity
of forwarding your letter which we received in
Earl Bathurst Office and which we were told would
be conducive to our interest personaly to deliver into
your hands __ may it therefore please your Exellency
to grant us lands in as favourable a situation as
possible consistant with the interest of the Colony
along with agricultural impliments and seeds _
should you be inclined for any further enquiry we
shall be very happy to wait upon your Exellency
and there fully explain _ your answer to the above

will greatly oblidge
Your very Humble & Most obedt Servants
James Clark
Robert Thomson
John McLaren
John McLean
Thomas Reid and Wife

Simons Bay on board the
Sappho _ August 28 1821