Dyason, George

To His Excellency The Right Honorable General /
Lord Charles Henry Somerset /
Governor and Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s /
Castle, Town and Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope /
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The memorial of George Dyason most /
humbly and respectfully sheweth. /
That your Excellencys memorialist was upon /
his arrival in This Colony possessed of very ample means /
for the support and comfort of the party whom your /
memorialist brought out, as well as for the purposes /
of pursuing the vocation of agriculture, which memorialist /
has followed to the extent of his means. /
That from the casualties which have occurred, /
and consequent difficulty of supporting such expenditure /
without adequate return, your memorialist has been /
very much reduced in his pecuniary resources, has /
expended in the cultivation of his land no less than /
Ten Thousand rixdollars, and was one of the principle /
sufferes by the floods of October 1823 which the enclosed /
document, submitted for your Excellency’s consideration, /
will shew _ /
That in consequence of the great risk and /
loss attending the cultivation of your memorialists land /
He was induced to apply to your Excellency for a small /
grant /
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grant of land near Grahams Town, and which Your /
Excellency was graciously pleased to grant him. /
That Your Memorialist has erected an /
expensive stone built dwelling House thereon, and /
by otherwise improving the land by inclosing and /
cultivating of it has expended a further sum of Eight /
Thousand rixdollars. /
Your memorialist therefore humbly prays /
that Your Excillency will be pleased to grant him /
a loan of Fifteen hundred rixdollars to enable him /
to pursue his plan of improvement and your memorialist /
will as in duty bound ever pray. /
Grahams Town /
28\th/ October 1824 /