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July 1783
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Gentlemen.
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Letter from
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wright
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a recompence for the loss
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he may sustain by
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quitting the Garden Ground
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he
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holds of the Quarkers.
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I beg leave to draw your attention for a few moments
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to the peculiar hardships in which I shall be involved if it be determined
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that I am to be driven from the little spot which now affords me and
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my family the necessaries of Lip unless some compensation is made
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me that may give me some support till I am able to discover another
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place where I may procure a subsistence. The Garden I know have
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cost me upwards of Thirty Pounds to manure it and employed
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almost all my labour for Six Months and it was more than half a Year
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before I could derive any thing from it to recompense my expense and
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industry. I am totally unable to get any other Ground near this spot,
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which is actually essential to the maintenance of my family, as I have
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Gardens to attend very near it. which however are not of themselves
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sufficiently profitable for our support. And even if by any lucky accident
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I should procure any adjacent Ground. (which I have not any prospect
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of at present) it would cost me as much Money to reminder it of any use to
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me as I have laid out on my present habitation. and require upwards
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of a Years time before it could reach half the perfection to which I brought
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that which I now occupy. In the hope Gentlemen. that you will consider
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the situation to which an increasing family may probably be reduced
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if I am actually to be forced from the comfortable little place. upon which he
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I now depend if not sufficient
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an
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accompense is allowed me, and that you
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will have the goodness to compassionate the situation of Gentlemen.
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Your most
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humble Servant
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Edward Hartwright
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Report received.}
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A Motion was made that the Instrument now produced
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signed
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Geo: Booth
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Joseph Faikney
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Jacob Leroux
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be received as a
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report of the Committee to whom it was referred To enquire whether any
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spot of Ground can be had in the vicinity of the Session house proper for
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the erection of a
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House of Correction
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and upon what Terms And after
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debate upon holding up of hands there appeared for the Question 17
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against it 13 whereupon the Question was declared to be carried in
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the Affirmative
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The Court agree with
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the Committee}
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A Motion was now made that the Court do agree with
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this Committee in their Report after debate upon holding up of hands their
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appeared for the Motion 17 against it 13 Whereupon the Question was
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declared to be carried in the Affirmative.
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