May it please your Honor,

I am directed by the Freemen of this Town, in Town-Meeting assembled on the 24th, Instant to request the Favor that your Honor wou'd transmit me by Mr William Anthony who is dispatched with this Letter for that Purpose the Memorial that was proferred by them to the Honorable Continental Congress together with the Papers that accompanied it ー If your Honor desires that those Papers shou'd be returned to you, I am ordered by the Town to assure you that it shall be done ー I am, Your Honors [&c.]