Short, Joseph

To His Excellency The Right Honourable
General 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 John Joseph Short most humbly
Sheweth
That your Excellencys Memorialist (who has a Wife and
Five Children) belongs to the party which left England under the
superintendance of Mr Sephton _ That he has remained on his Location
ever since the period of arrival thereon, and has ploughed Ten Acres of Land
That your Excellencys Memorialist, by his unwearied industry
has succeeded in purchasing a Waggon, and by which he chiefly supported
his family, but having suffered very severely by the Floods in 1821 and
1823 he has been obliged to dispose of it again, under great disadvantages ,
and therefore humbly prays that your Excellency will be
graciously pleased to grant him a Loan of Six Hundred Rix Dollars
and for which he is ready to give the most undeniable security, and
your Memorialist as in duty bound will ever pray.
Grahams Town Novr 8 1824 Joseph Short