While your Petitioners have the greatest reason to think it will if adopted prove highly dissatisfactory and prejudicial to the Body of Inhabitants in general, who beginning to feel the eminent advantages of a settled Government, view with concern even the prospect of an alteration that may again expose them to the difficulties and hardships, with which they so lately contended, at the same time that it must be inevitably productive of uncertainty and confusion in titles and peculiarly grievous to a great number of your Majesty's Subjects, who confiding in the Stability of your Majestys said royal order, have purchased and seated themselves in that country from an immediate view of their being connected with and under the protection of this your Majesty's Government of New York.

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly beseech your Majesty to Grant them such releif as to your Majesty, in your great wisdom shall seem meet.

And your Majesty's Petitioners, as in duty bound, shall ever pray &°. Province of New York " 2

1st November 1770

Thomas Chandler Edward Howe Moses Wright Simon Stevens Timothy Spencer Daniel Gill Samuel Scott

Jehiell Simmons --

George Hall Jchebed Widdoms Joseph Douglas Willm Dean Willard Dean Wm Dean Junr Joel Mathews Moses Evens Zeidock Wright Asa Taylor Matthias Rust Lionel Uddel Jacob Burtch Timothy Lull Thos Sumner John Peters

John Taplin

Abner Fowler

John Taplin junr Thos Butterfield Thos Chamberlain Wellobuy Butterfield Robt Kennedy Ezekiel Colby Jacob Hall

Ephram Martin junr Daniel Hall

Jonathan Butterfield |