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To the Right Honorable and Honorable and
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Worshipful the Commissioners of the Pea
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for which your
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Honors Sentenced your Petitioner to be a Pr
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That your Honors Petitioner has worked as
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Car-Man
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for the respectable Families of Messr: Lee & Bo
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in
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That they can give Testimoney of his Faithfulness and
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Sobriety and would gladly receive him into their E
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againThat your unhappy Petitioner has a Wi
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and a small Young Family who more dependant on Y
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cerned in the late Riot but can really Prove that
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was in quit a different Place at the Time the
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Most meekly prays Your Honors to comm
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his unhappy Situation and in Mercy to him and
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poor Family cause his Sentence to be reversed
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grant him his Liberty and he will as in
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Bound for your Honors ever Pray while
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