Orange County NcArchives Court.....Meeting - Petition, Cane Creek 1772
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Source: Colonial Records Of North Carolina
Written: 1772

Petition from the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends concerning payment for 
provisions for the North Carolina militia
Society of Friends. Cane Creek Monthly Meeting
November 07, 1772 
Volume 09, Pages 354-355

[From MS. Records in Office of Secretary of State.]

From our monthly Meetting of the People Called Quakers held at Cain Creek in 
the County of Orange and Province of North Carolina the Seventh day of the 
Eleventh month 1772.

To Josiah Martin Esqr. Governor and Commander in Cheaf in and over the Said 
Province and to the Councell; Speaker; and members of the house of assembly.

Do we as Humble dependants Earnestly Crave Your Attention; and may these few 
lines find Such Acceptance with you; that as We Spread our Remonstrances 
before You; It may be your Pleasure to Have Us Redressed; for it is our 
Principle and Known Practice as a Society; to be subordinate and Peascible 
under Goverment; (altho deviated from by Some who make Profession as we do) 
for which the Severall Sherriffs Can bear us Record; That when their Passing 
about in their Respective Services Was thought dangerous; That Numbers of us 
Conveyed our money for our Taxes; to the Severall Sheriffs Thereof; When Come 
due and Payable; as being Willing to Exert our Selves to the Support of our 
Gracious King and Goverment; Well Knowing From Whose Clemency We as a People 
Enjoy Great Priviledges

Now the moveing Instance Which We have to Lay Before You is that Whereas 
Governor William Tryon; Requested us to Furnish him With Six Waggon Load of 
Flower; together With Six Waggons and Teams; in the Campaign against the 
Regulators; Which Request We Complyed with; in Expectation of being Paid for 
the Same; and Whereas We Understand; there hath been but a Small Part offered 
at the Last Sitting of assembly; therefore We Humbly Intreat you; to take it 
into Consideration; and Grant this our Petetion For if otherwise the Burthen 
thereof is most Likely to fall on a Very Few in the discharge and Settlement 
thereof; Which may Prove the means of Rendering Some of us Incapable of the 
Punctuall discharge of our other Respective debts; therefore we Earnestly 
Crave; that you would Condesend to Administer to our Releaf, and Ease our 
Humble Hearts; Being in duty bound; We Forever Shall Return due 
acknowledgements.

Signed in and on Behalf of the Said meeting,

CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY 
MORGAN EDWARDS 
THOMAS LINDLEY 
ISAAC JONES 
JOSEPH COMER 
JEREMIAH PIGGOTT 
DAVID VESTAL 
WM. HOBSON 
BENJAMIN PIGGOTT 
WILLIAM LINDLEY 
AARON JONES 
WILL. WIERMAN
RICHd KEMP 
JESSE HINSHAW 
THOs VESTAL 
WILLIAM MARSHILL 
JACOB MARSHILL 
DANIEL BROWN 
JOSEPH CLOUD 
JOHN DAIRY 
WILLIAM BROWN 
LEVI BRANSON 
WILLIAM VESTAL. 

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