Hanger, Edward

To His Excellency General The Right Honourable
Lord Charles Henry Somerset, Governor of His Majestys
Castle; Town and Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope
&c &c &c
May it please your Excellency
The Memorial of Edward Hanger belonging to Mr Howards party most humbly
Sheweth
That your Excellencys Memorialist (who resides in Grahams
Town) forwarded a Petition to your Excellency upwards of Three Months ago, praying for a
Colonial Pass, but to which he has not yet been favoured with your Excellencys reply
and supposing (amidst all the multiplicity of important engagements with which your
Excellencys time must be occupied) that the subject may have been obliterated form your
memory, he ventures in great humility to restate his case, for your Excellencys kind and
gracious consideration, hoping for the exercise of that well known indulgence with which your
Excellency has deigned to favour others in similar circumstances while he intreats you
to pardon the liberty he has hereby taken by a second application
That your Excellencys Memorialist is by Trade a Carpenter and
Builder, and has been for a considerable time in the employment of Mr Peter Retief, of this Town,
and who is in contract with the Colonial Government for the building of Barracks &c, and
for whom your Memorialist has the sole management of that extensive concern:
That your Excellencys Memorialist is frequently dispatched by his
Employer to a considerable distance from hence, when, not only according to the Laws of the
Colony (and to which he desires to bow in willing submission) a Pass is required but is absolutely
necessary for your Memorialist in order that he may obtain the meanest Assylum from the
inclemency of a midnight sky, for he cannot possibly be received into the Cottage of the Dutch
without the production of such a Document, and sometimes the important design of his
Journey would be defeated if the smallest procrastination was to ensue, and hence a Colonial
Pass would be productive of great advantages both to himself and his employer and supercede
the necessity of repeated applications to the Worshipful The Landdrost of Albany, who
may be so engaged as to prevent the possibility of granting it at the moment it may be required
That your Excellencys Memorialist notwithstanding his residence
in Grahams Town continues to expend considerable sums in the cultivation and improvement
of his Farm at Salem Hills, and therefore humbly prays for the exercise of your
Excellencys clemency and goodness towards him, by granting him a Colonial Pass
for the purpose before stated
That your Excellencys Memorialist finding it extremely difficult
to obtain Bread for his family during this alarming season of dearth and peril
humbly prays that your Excellency will be graciously pleased with your accustomed
goodness to allow him to purchase One Barrel of Flour every Six Weeks from His
Majestys stores for prompt payment and your Memorialist (as in duty bound), will
ever pray for your Excellency and your Illustrious family.
Grahams Town Augt 9 1822
This is to certify that Mr Edward Hanger who belongs to my party
has at this Moment 6 Acres of land in cultivation at this place and has
been at considerable expence in clearing it for ploughing and therefore I beg
leave to recomend him to your Excellency as a deserving man
Salem Hills Augt 12 1822
Wm Howard