There is one part of the pamphlet which may require a little explaining as they hinge much and their whole dependance of the Pipe Boiler rests on it where speaking of M^. Voight and the Pipe Boiler Page 14 I say that I am indebted to him alone for the improvement yet it cannot be denied but I laid a Drawing of a Pipe Boiler before the Philosophical Society many months before he pretends to have [done so] therefore I hope your House will not [conceive his words] to convey more than the very expression itself |and that theyj may not be construed instead

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of an improvement that they shall convey the Idea that I am indebted to him for the invention.

I am hardly let in a belief that your Honorable House will take up his Petition but refer it over to Congress, yet should they do it, I pray that I may be notified of it.

I also pray you Sir as soon as this shall come to hand to let me have information by Post otherwise for fear of miscarriage in a reasonable time I shall have to be at the expense and trouble of forwarding another Package to you which will ever lay me under the obligation of subscribing myself

your most devoted much obliged

and very humble Servant

John Fitch. To the Honourable the Speaker of the Assembly of New York. Endorsed^

John Fitch Papers and certificates relative to his steam Boat. Addressed,