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consideration and release her son Sam^l Wright J^r the said Draft and
she as in Duty bound will pray

[August]

We the Subscribers being Acquainted
with the above petition^r hereby certify that
the facts set fourth in the above petition
is the truth.

Jo. H. Harrison
Nathaniel Williams
Caleb Hudson
Burdit Ratliff
Will^m Davies

Ann Arundel County ss.
To his Excellency the Governor, and his Honourable Council of
the State of Maryland
The Petition of Greenbury Simpson of said County, and State,
most Humbly Sheweth — That your Petitioner being Drafted in
April Provided a Man in his stead during the War, at a Consider-
able Cost to himself, and being Drafted again in July and not being
Circumstanc'd to procure another Man, having an Aged and help-
less Mother, and three Sisters, whose dependance for the Neces-
saries of Life, are wholly depending on your Petitioner, which if
your Petitioner is taken away from them must come to great want :
Your Petitioner therefore Prays that his Excellency the Governor,
and his Honourable Council will take this the Deplorable and In-
digent case into Consideration, in which his Poor Aged Mother and
Sisters will be left in, except your Honours please to exempt your
Petitioner from the Draft, which as in Duty Bound your Petitioner
shall for ever Pray &c. &c.
The truth of which, is Attested by us the Subscribers.

[August]
[Indorsed
" Dis-
charged"]

Rich^d Stringer

William haslup

W Spurrier

Henry Bateman Sen^r

John Drummond

John Mall of Severn

Joseph White Sen^r

John Spelan

William Bateman

James [Rowding?]

[ ] James Frost

John Bateman