If during the Time of your Worships being in
Treaty about the said Premises your Petitioner
has by any means displeased you, he is most heartily
sorry for it & intreats your Pardon, promising to
conform himself infuture intirely to your
Worships Command

He has now for these last twelve Months
past been seeking in vain for another Ground, but
haveing now found one uncultivated, the Proprietor
will let him have it on a Lease provided your
Petitioner will built a Hut upon it for his
Habitation, but having spind his Prop [..]
the Quaker Ground & being de [..]
means to do it, once more most humbly
intreats your Worships most gracious & kind
Donnation, which he will most thankfully
receive & as in Duty bound ever pray

Your Worships
most obedient & most duty full Servant
Edward Hartwright< no role >

Corporation Row
the 21 October 1784,