Gradwell, Stephen

To His Excelency the Right Honora=bel /
Genaral Lord Charels Henry Somer=set /
Governor and Comander in Chief /
of the Forces of the Colony of the Cape /
of Good Hope 7+c 7+c 7+c /
Stephen Gradwell of M\r./ Richard Hayhurst Party /
Humbly /
Sheweth _ /
That your memoralist having Resided on his Location /
ever since his arrival thearon and through the failure /
of Crops and the fall/i\ng of his house in that much * /
Rememberd storm which fell in Albany in October 1823 /
and other Los+ses in Cattle 7+c _ He finds his * /
Fund Greatly Diminished, which has induced your Mem=oralist /
thus humbly and Earnestly to pray that your /
Excelency will be pleased to Grant him a Loan of about /
Six Hundred Rix Dollers, with which should he be so /
Fortunate as to obtain so Great and Desirable a favour from /
your Excelency, it would /e\nabel him to purchas a few /
Cattle and other neces+asery articels _ that would aquire him /
the meanes of still Remaining on his Location and pro=eving /
for his Famely by unwearied Industery, and your /
memoralist as in Duty bound will ever pray” /
Lower Caffer Drift October 24\th/ _
Stephen Gradwell _/