I hope you will excuse the liberty a Strainger has taken in thus presuming to address your Honour in consequence of he having left his native Country England, with an intire new Invention of his own for Spinning Hemp, Flax, and Wooll, into Yarn by Warter, Steam, or Horse to any Size required to sute the different purposess for which it may be wanted. And he thus ventures humbly to address himself to your Honour requesting that he may be permitted at a convenient time personally to state the out lines of his plan which he hopes may prove of general utility to the United States.

If on examination it should be thought so your petitioner presumes to hope that he may meet with proportionate encoragement so as to enable him to settle with credit in the Country, or as your Honour’s wisdom may suggest and your Petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray, and hopes to remain your Honour’s most Obedient and Humble Servant