To the Honorable the Continental Congress The Petition of the Shiprites of fells pint Shewith
That your Petitioners Labours under Maney Difficulties and Is greatly Distessed by the High and Exorbitant prices of their Board and the great advance on Every article of wearing Aparel thire wages being only Eight Shilling pr day for Every day that the[y] Can work which Is hardly Sufficsirit to Support and get the Common Necesaries of Life besides thire wearing Aparel Tools and others Expences therefore Most Humbly prays you as the guardeans of the people[s] Writes take thire case in your consideration advance Thire [expence] to as we can Live By for we that has Goot famlyes Cant not Leve and Supoart ours at Eight Shilling pr day and will Remane your Humble petitioners and as in Duty Bound Will Ever pray
Febry 5th 1777 No 18.
[Endorsed] Petition from the Ship-wrights of Fells point Baltimore read 5 February 1777 ordered to lie on the table
1. Papers CC (Petitions addressed to Congress), 42, VII, 27-28, NA.