Heads of Parties

To His Excellency Major
General Sir Rufane
Shawe Donkin KCB
Acting Governor
Commander in Chief
&c &c &c Cape of Good
Hope
We the undersigned Heads
of Parties, and other British Settlers
in Albany, beg leave to address
Your Excellency, to express our
Gratitude for the liberal manner
in which we were provided and
sent to this Colony, for the
precautions which were previously
taken, and for the ample supply
of Stores of all sorts which were
furnished by the Government
at Home, to ensure our Success
and future Stability on our
Several Locations
We further beg leave to
convey the expression of our
thanks to Your Excellency the

to the Officers of this Government, and to the local authorities here, for the zeal and kindness with which the intentions of the Government at Home have been carried into effect, and for the constant care and attention with which our wishes have been met and our wants even anticipated.
We feel it particularly incumbent on us to acknowledge our
gratitude to your Excellency for kindly continuing to us the issue of Rations, after the total failure by Blight of all our Crops,
thereby assuring us a subsistence, until our endeavours by the blessings of Providence may procure us such necessaries as may render our situation easy and independent.
In conclusion we are cheered and encouraged by feeling and knowing that in transplanting ourselves to the Shores of Southern Africa we have not been removed beyond the fostering influence and protection of His Majestys Paternal care and Government,
and we hope Your Excellency will be pleased to convey these our Sentiments most dutifully to our Sovereign.
(Signed)
Duncan Campbell, George Pigot, Alexander Biggar,
George Dyason, D. P. Francis, John Smith, Henry Lloyd,
Wm. Boardman, Charles Hyman, Edward Ford, Samuel James, Arthur Barker, William Griffiths, Alexander Bisset, J. H. Greathead, Thomas Philipps, Miles Bowker, James Richardson, W. CURRIE,
W. Shaw, Geo. Southey, Wm. Wait,
Wm. Holder,
D. OFlinn, M.D.,
Geo. Watson,
Thomas Henson,
Geo. Anderson,
Thomas Mahony,
Samuel Bennet,
Geo. Smith,
Josh. Rhodes, Cocks Party, John Jarman,
J. Centlivres Chase, Peter Campbell,
Samuel Harper Bradshaw, C. T. Thornhill,
John Bailie,
Isaac Dyason.
Bathurst, June 1 1821.