Will your Excellency bepleased to admit in your preasants—the unfortunate wife to the Prisoner Ray—so that I may state to your Excellency my Lementable situation—I am a great distance from home—amongst strangers—& is now moneyless—not able to Return home—and is desspertly situateed to stay here—with an expectation that in a short time I shall not be able to shift a bout as I have had to do-since I came hear—nether will I be able to under take so grate a gurney as to travel home alone—my preasant prosspects makes me intierly misserable—Permit me to pray your Excellencyes Compation—& once more Restore to me my long lost husband—which will save me and my desperceed little Children from utter Ruing—

Please grant my Humble Request & except my sincearest Thanks while I Live