With the greatest Respect Your assured Friends and obedient humble servants MiERS Fisher Benjamin Wynkoop Levi Hollingsworth The Hono^'ie John Lansing Esq^ Speaker of the House of Assembly

EARLY STEAM NAVIGATION.

A LIST OF THE RUMSEIAN SOCIETY. His Excellency Benjamin Franklin Esq"^. William Barton

Arthur St. Clair William Bingham Benjamin Wynkoop James Tunchard John Jones Levi Hollingsworth Joseph James John Wilson Geo Duffield Reed & Forde Woodrop & Joseph Sims William Redwood & Son

Endorsed

A Letter from Miers Fisher and others of the Rumseian Society at Philadelphia to the Speaker of the Assembly in New York.

In Assembly Dec ]8th 1788.

Read & referred with the Petition of James Rumsey to Mr Livingston Mr. Havens and Mr. Van Cortlandt.

Richard Adams Samuel Wheeler Samuel Magaw Adam Kuhn Miers Fisher M. F. for Robert Barclay of London Charles Vancouver Burgis Allison John Vaughn John Ross William Turner

EARLY STEAM NAVIGATION.

A LIST OF THE RUMSEIAN SOCIETY.

His Excellency Benjamin Franklin Esq"". William Barton

Arthur St. Clair

William Bingham

Benjamin Wynkoop

James Tunchard

Jolin Jones

Levi Hollingsworth

Joseph James

John Wilson

Geo Duffield

Reed & Forde

Woodrop & Joseph Sims

William Redwood & Son

Endorsed

A Letter from Miers Fisher and others of the Rumseian Society at Philadelphia to the Speaker of the Assembly in New York.

In Assembly Dec ]8th 1788.

Read & referred with the Petition of James Rumsey to Mr Livingston Mr. Havens and Mr. Van Cortlandt.

Richard Adams Samuel Wheeler Samuel Magaw Adam Kuhn Miers Fisher M. F. for Robert Barclay of London Charles Vancouver Burgis Allison John Vaughn John Ross William Turner