July 1783

Gentlemen.

Letter from Edward
Hart< no role > wright respectively [..]
a recompence for the loss
he may sustain by
quitting the Garden Ground
he holds of the Quarkers. }

I beg leave to draw your attention for a few moments
to the peculiar hardships in which I shall be involved if it be determined
that I am to be driven from the little spot which now affords me and
my family the necessaries of Lip unless some compensation is made
me that may give me some support till I am able to discover another
place where I may procure a subsistence. The Garden I know have
cost me upwards of Thirty Pounds to manure it and employed
almost all my labour for Six Months and it was more than half a Year
before I could derive any thing from it to recompense my expense and
industry. I am totally unable to get any other Ground near this spot,
which is actually essential to the maintenance of my family, as I have
Gardens to attend very near it. which however are not of themselves
sufficiently profitable for our support. And even if by any lucky accident
I should procure any adjacent Ground. (which I have not any prospect
of at present) it would cost me as much Money to reminder it of any use to
me as I have laid out on my present habitation. and require upwards
of a Years time before it could reach half the perfection to which I brought
that which I now occupy. In the hope Gentlemen. that you will consider
the situation to which an increasing family may probably be reduced
if I am actually to be forced from the comfortable little place. upon which he
I now depend if not sufficient an accompense is allowed me, and that you
will have the goodness to compassionate the situation of Gentlemen.

Your most
humble Servant
Edward Hartwright< no role > .

Report received.}

A Motion was made that the Instrument now produced
signed Geo: Booth< no role > Joseph Faikney< no role > and Jacob Leroux< no role > be received as a
report of the Committee to whom it was referred To enquire whether any
spot of Ground can be had in the vicinity of the Session house proper for
the erection of a House of Correction and upon what Terms And after
debate upon holding up of hands there appeared for the Question 17
against it 13 whereupon the Question was declared to be carried in
the Affirmative

The Court agree with
the Committee}

A Motion was now made that the Court do agree with
this Committee in their Report after debate upon holding up of hands their
appeared for the Motion 17 against it 13 Whereupon the Question was
declared to be carried in the Affirmative.