Sheweth,

That your Lordship’s Petitioners having lost their Husbands in His Majesty’s Service, (and there being no Pensions for them, as established in the Regular Forces); must, when his Majesty’s Bounty of one Year’s Pay is expended, be reduced with their Families to the utmost Distress.

Therefore most humbly entreat your Lordship’s humane Consideration of their very unhappy Situation, and that Your Lordship will be pleased to lay their distress before His Majesty from whose great Goodness they can alone hope for Relief.

And they as in Duty bound will ever pray.

Signed.

New York 14th February 1780.

University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library, Sir Henry Clinton Papers, Volume 97, item 20.

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