Webb, Christopher

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 Christopher Webb most humbly
Sheweth
That your Excellencys Memorialist who belongs to the
Salem party and is by profession a Shoemaker has been the subject
of very serious misfortune since his residence in this Colony _ That
he resided upon his Location during a period of Four Years and
has sunk a Capital of several Hundred pounds sterling and therefore
your Memorialist humbly prays that your Excellency will
be graciously pleased to grant him a Loan of 500Rds and
for which he will give security by House and Land in Grahams
Town and will feel himself in duty bound to pray
The Xmark
Christopher Webb
Grahams Town Decr 27 1824