Griffin, Mary

To His Excellency Lord Charles H Somerset
Governor of the Colony of the Cape of
Good Hope &c &c &c
The Memorial of Mary Griffin Widow
of Patrick Griffin presently residing at
Clan William
Humbly Sheweth
That your Memorialist came to this
Colony with her husband a Settler in the
party of John Ingram Esq _ That her husband
died about sixteent months since leaving her
destitute with three young childred the eldest
of whom is no more than five years of age.
_ That your Memorialist has depended upon
the generosity of Mr Ingram, for the support
of herself & her children ever since and which
that gentleman has afforded to her in the
most humane manner; but as she understands
that Mr Ingram intends leaving Clan Willian
in the course of a very short time it is necessary
that she take some means for procuring
that a substistance and as that cannot be

obtained at Clan William and as she has no
money to pay the expense of carrying herself
to Cape Town where she expects by industry to
be enabled to support her family she humbly
begs your Excellency will grant a Conveyance
for her & her family together with three
children left under her charge by Dennis
Reardon a poor Man a settler (who has gone
Cape Town in search of employment) and
that in the same manner as your Excellency
granted to Widow Allison and her family
and your Memorialist will ever pray
Clan William 20 April
1822
Mary Griffin
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