Thornhill, Christopher Camm

To His Excellency Lord Charles Henry Somerset
Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
&c &c &c
My Lord,
In consequence of my intimacy to
Your Excellency that the Settlers in the district
of Albany were in great want of Mills to grind
their Wheat & Indian Corn, your Excellency was
pleased to direct me to purchase a few Mills
for the purpose of supplying so great and necessary
want _ I did then purchase Sundry Mills as of bill
amounting to Rds 775 _ which I beg your
Excellency will be pleased to order payment
of and give your instructions in the distribution
of the Same
I have the honor to be
My Lord
Your Lordships most obdt
humble Servant
C.T.Thornhill
Cape Town
26 April 1824