That your Petitioners acknowledge with the utmost Gratitude the Recent Marks cf your Excellency's Paternal Attention to the Welfair and Convenience of the Inhabitants of the said County by the late Salutary Regulations and as your Petitioners are wholly disposed to demean themselves as good subjects so they are desirous of Enjoying in common with the Inhabitants of the other Counties of this Province the Powers and Privileges extended to them by having Liberty to choose two representatives to serve in the General Assembly in this Province.

That such Representation will fulfil the hopes of your Petitioners by establishing that firm and lasting connection which they are desirous should ever subsist between them and the Government to which it is their happiness to belong and will enable the more readily to accomplish the good purposes of Government by obtaining such as Laws as will most tend to its honor and their own Prosperity.

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly Pray that. your Excellency will be favourably pleased to issue your writ enabling the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the said County to Elect and choose two representatives for the said County to serve in General] Assembly returnable at the meeting of the said General Assembly on the fifth Day of January next.

And your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray &c.

Cumberland County y® 7 December 1772.

Nathn Stone

Asa Haven 'Robert Pathso Asa Rice

Francis Whitmore James Richardson Athniel Wilkins Junr Seth Rice

John Barbur Zephaniah Shepherdson Amos Tute Benjn Dyar Nathel Davis Thomas Cutler Willard Dean Simeon Birch Benjamin Shurt Wm Williams Benjn Hutching Peter Evans Jonathan Tarbell Timothy Clark John Patterson James Comins Amos Haile Atherton Classe David Pulsepher Jas Rogers