That they are destitute of the means of Support, at the same time that they have been involving themselves in Debt for the Necessaries of Life. '

'That under these deplorable Circumstances, they have no other prospect of Relief but from the Hand of the humane & benevolent.

Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that your Honour will be favourably pleased to take their unhappy case into your tender consideration, and to give them your Countenance and assistance in the premises.

And your petitioners shall ever pray &c. Brnsamin Hoven . Danie, WALKER Jur

(Endorsed) April 751775 Read in Conneil, and ordered that a Brief be issued in favor of the Petitioners.

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 917

PETITION OF THE CIVIL OFFICERS OF CUMBERLAND (CO,

To the Honorable Cadwallader Colden Esquire His Majesty's Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of New York &¢

The Petition of Samuel Wells Esquire, William Patterson

Esquire, High Sheriff, and Samuel Gale Esquire Clerk, of the

County of Cumberland.

Most Humbly Sheweth

That your Petitioner Samuel Wells hath expended in defraying the expenses of the several expresses from the County of Cumberland to the City of New York, bringing accounts of the state of the County, in order that Government might be thereby enabled to take the most proper steps to reinstate and maintain the due administration of Justice, and for the suppression of Riots in the said County; The sum of Forty three Pounds Fourteen Shillings and six pence, an account whereof (A) is herewith presented.