LEATHERBARROW, Jonathan
373
Dudley
Worcestershire
August 30th 1819
May it please your Lordship
The humble pettision of Jonathan LEATHERBARROW humbly sheweth that your Petioner have served in his Majesty’s 25 Light Dragoons East Indies and that your Petioner has bean in the Sea Service and has sailed to various parts of his Majesty’s Domainions and that your Petioner wishes to emigrate to the Cape of good hope, that your Petioner was born in Manchester in the County of Lancaster by trade a Weaver, that your Petioner left Manchester to seek employment 12 months since and is laboring for scarcely bread in Dudley that your Petioner has got a wife and 2 children under 6 years and suld this meet with your Lordship’s Apobrobation your Petioner will for ever be in duty bound to pray
I am your Lordship’s most obedient and humble servant
Jonathan LEATHERBARROW
NB Direct New Street, Dudley, Worcestershire
PS to rite by return of post