The Petition and Memorial of WB. B.F. and A.Lee Most humbly sheweth

That your Petitioners being Agents for several Colonies, and deeply affected with the Apprehension of impending Calamities that now threaten your Majesty’s Subjects in America, beg leave to approach your Throne, and to suggest with all humility their Opinion, formed on much attentive Consideration, that if it should please your Majesty to permit and authorize a Meeting of Delegates from the different Provinces, and appoint some Person or Persons of Dignity and Wisdom from hence, to preside in that Meeting, or to confer with the said Delegates, acquaint themselves fully with the true Grievances of the Colonies, and settle the Means of composing all Dissensions, such Means to be afterwards ratify’d by your Majesty, if found just and suitable; your Petitioners are persuaded, from their thorough Knowledge of that Country, and People, that such a Measure might be attended with the most salutary Effects, prevent much Mischief, and restore the Harmony which so long subsisted, and is so necessary to the Prosperity and Happiness, of all your Majesty’s Subjects in every Part of your extensive Dominions: Which that Heaven may preserve entire to your Majesty and your Descendants is the sincere Prayer of Your Majesty’s most dutiful Subjects and Servants.