Stroud, John & Penny, George

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 Stroud, Carpenter and George Penny, Labourer, most humbly
Sheweth
That your Excellencys Memorialists came to this Colony
in the Party which left England under the superintendence of
Captain D Campbell from whom they have each obtained his
discharge, and as no impediment exists to their removal from
the District after they have obtained your Excellencys sanction
they humbly pray that you will be graciously pleased to grant
them individually a Colonial Pass, and your Memorialist as
in duty bound will ever pray.
John Stround
The Xmark
George Penny
Grahams Town Novr 23rd _ 1824