Crause, Charles

Summer Hill Oct\r/ 24\th/ 1824 /
My Lord /
I beg leave to apologize to your /
Lordship for this intrusion, and I have /
little doubt from the benevolence of your /
Lordships disposition of receiving forgivenes+s /
Your Lordship I am persuaded will /
be easily convinced, that from the unsettled /
state I have been in since my arrival /
in the Colony, I have lost great time and /
have expended a considerable Sum in /
the Support of myself and family (having a /
Wife and Seven Children ) this and the los+s /
I sustained during the flood 7+c has greatly /
reduced my capital; yet I do not despair of /
ultimate Succes+s. /
I am now residing on the grant /
your Lordship manificently granted me /
Some time back, I have nearly completed /
a large Stone house, and have inclosed /
with a bank and ditch about sixty Acres /
of land for cultivation, but from the /
narrownes+s of my means I am reduced /
to the neces+sity, of entreating your Lordship /
will be induced to take my case into /
your Lordships most humane consideration /
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and grant me a loan of three Thousand Rix /
to enable me to carry on busines+s with /
advantage /
Permit me to return your Lordship /
in language /the most\ respectful, my most /
grateful thanks, for all the favours /
your Lordship has been graciously /
pleased to confer on me, and to /
as+sure your Lordship at the same /
that I feel the disinclination to /
acknowledge my poverty which some /
men would, and that I should not have /
intruded on your Lordships goodnes+s of /
heart, but for my having raised /
money on an annuity bond previous /
to my leaving England, the entitlement /
of which I am compelled to pay /
regularly, which reduced my half pay /
to twenty pounds annualy. /
I cannot apply to the /
Settlers fund as I could not recover /
it to my conscience to take /
money even by way of loan /
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what I think has been /
collected under misrepresentations. /
I have the honor to be /
Your Lordships /
Most ob\t/ humble Serv\t/ /
Charles Crause /
To His Excellency the Right Hon. /
Lord Charles Henry Somerset /
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