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[Petition of Vincent Trapnall.]
Gentlemen. February the 18th 1777.
I made bold some time since to petition to your Honours
for my enlargement, but have received no answer from your
Honours. I now again make bold to intreat your Honours to
release me from this my confinement as what I did was only
in resentment to the person and no ways designing any ill
against the State of affairs of the American cause. I have,
Gentlemen, associated and likewise given to the relief of the
distressed in Boston. I bear, Gentlemen, no allegiance to the
King of England, nor have I any connection with those that
embrace his maxims and am ready and willing to pay all due
allegiance to this State. I hope therefore your Honours will
consider me and my wife and poor children who might have
suffered greatly during my confinement, having no stay nor
Guide, if your Honours will pleas'd to release me you may
depend upon my utmost endeavours to find out and discover
any rumour, or any thing else prejudicial to the present system
of affairs, from your Honours in duty bound.
Vincent Trapnall.
To The Honourable the Delegates of the State of Maryland
in Assembly convened at the city of Annapolis.
[Petition of Vincent Trapnall to the Delegates.]
To the Honourable the Delegates for the State of Mary-
land now at the City of Annapolis in Assembly convened.
The humble petition of Vincent Trapnall most humbly sheweth
That your poor Petitioner has been confin'd ever since the
29th of last month for a misdemeanor that he was guilty of and
which he did through distraction and inadvertency, however
no how prejudicial or injurious to the present State of affairs,
but has always been the reverse and maintain'd the cause as
far as my abilities would admit of Witness in the association
in respect to the Bostonians, and ever shall as far as lies in my
power. I was most Honourable Gentlemen confined here by
order of the Honourable the Council of Safety and I believe
there was some malice and antipathy in the person that com-
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