May it Please your honor I beg your honor will Excuse me in writing to the prsedint but am under A Disseagreeable situation I have been very unfortinate For this five or six years past by losses at Different times At sea I was taking by the french once and Carred into Godalupe and lost all I had and the winter before last I was Cast Away on mount Desert Iland and like to have perrished and frose ourselves bad and lost all we had I have got a Large family and am reduce very low I have always been Inform your Honor has a tender feeling for the disstresed or I Should not have wrote to his honor I have always been A true freind to my Country and have faught and bleed For it but am reduce to the greatest Extremety and no freind To help me up I have applied to your honor for a littel assistance to put me under way once more and your honor may depend I will make good use of Every talent, and will satisfy your Honor as soon as it is in my power I live in the town of Prospect on penobscot River in the County of Hancock By your honor pleasing to write me a answer Every attension will be duly paid to it and your Humble petisoner

will Ever Pray