Filmore, Elizabeth

To His Excellency
Genl Lord C H Somerset
Governor Commander
of the Forces &c &c &c
Most Humbly Sheweth
That Your Excellencys
Memorialist came here as a
Settler in Mr Seftons Party
That Your Excellencys Memorialist
from the Death of her husband
is left destitute & Friendless in
this colony & thro age incapable
of earning a livelihood. but
in her native country England
has wealthy & Respectable Friends
capable of making her old days
comfortable.
Memorialist

therefore Most Humbly Prays
Your Excellency will be Graciously
Pleased to Grant her
a Colonial Pass to Proceed to
Cape Town & from thence
to England.
And Memorialist as in
duty bound shall ever Pray
Port Elizabeth
1 June 1824