Freemantle, Richard

Grahams Town 15\th/ March 1824 /
To His Excellency the Right Honourable General, /
Lord Charles Henry Somerset, Governor, and _ /
Commander in Chief, Cape of Good Hope /
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May it please your Excellency /
The Memorial of Samuel Freemantle, humbly /
Sheweth /
That your Excellencys Memorialist (who is _ /
incapable of performing any Kind of hard labour in consequence /
of the Severe wound which he received by the Caffres, at the /
time when his Much Lamented Father and Brother fell /
a Sacrifice to their Savage ferocity) has a legacy Left /
him in England (which together with the interest upon it /
amounts to about one hundred pounds Sterling ) to be /
received on his attaining the age of 21 years, is now _ /
anxious to proceed to England in order to pos+ses+s the aforesaid _ /
Sum, and return again to this Colony, to which he is greatly /
attached from the healthy nature of its Climate; as also from /
the circumstance of his having an only Brother remaining /
in this country . /
That your Excellencys Memorialist has no friend /
in England whom he could safely entrust with the power of /
pos+sesion of any present means to take him thither, and therefore /
he humbly prays that your Excellency will be graciously _ /
pleased to grant him a free pas+sage to England in any of /
his Majestys Ships, and your Memorialist will feel himself /
in duty bound ever to pray _ S. Freemantle /
D\r/ A. Smith in consequence of this misfortune returned /
Memorialist as unfit for Service in the Albany Levy /