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Hawkesbury, New South Wales 29th Jan 1807
May it please your Excellency
We the undersigned Holders of landed Estates and principal Inhabitants of the Hawksbury [Hawkesbury], Portland, Richmond, and Nepean settlements and other adjacent places in this colony, beg leave most respectfully to return our grateful thanks, for the unbounded attention, labors [labours] and pains, your Excellency in your good wisdom has ever manifested towards us and the general welfare and prosperity of this extensive Colony at large, in the dreadful crisis of general calamity in which you found it.
And we from the highest sense of gratitude and public duty, beg leave to assure your Excellency while enjoying our native laws and liberty, and living under a just and benign government, we will be ready at all times at the risque [risk] of our lives and properties lawfully to support the same, and willing to anticipate your Excellency's just and humane wishes, for the public relief, we have subscribed all the grain we possibly can spare from our own support to be carried to the public stores, at your stipulated price, rejecting far greater prices, in money, which we could receive from the present market sale, and we hope the quantity subscribed (with more than probably may be spared) will furnish your Excellency with means for the present years support, without reverting to the ruinous necessity of importation which your Excellency in your wisdom and penetration so justly sees and sets forth. And as these fertile settlements have ever produced a superabundance of food, which is evident from the low prices, it long sold at, and the great surplus quantities annually spoiled, wasted and wilfully destroyed, and we doubt not under the blessing of god and your wise measures that the produce of our lands next season will again be more than abundantly sufficient for the fullest support of the whole Territory, and in which case we will as readily supply such quantities as your Excellency may require at your fixed price of next season and every endeavour