Copy of an address prepared and intended to have been presented to Lieutnt Governor Paterson on his arrival, from some of the principal Settlers at Hawksbury [sic]', 1 May 1808 (Series 40.114) - No. 0002

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an officer, your virtue and impartial justice as a private gentleman, we rejoice to your arrival, at this momentous and alarming crisis:  it is to you we look with hope, for deliverance, from the oppressions, alarm and terror we have laboured under for some months past;  and we pledge ourselves to give you every support and information in our power to enable you to reestablish his Majesty's Government, in the person of his representative Governor Bligh, whom we have reason to adore:  for that protection and justice we have experienced under his firm and steady government:  the want of which has been highly injurious to us and our families when he arrived as Governor of this colony;  and we most earnestly pray that you will place us again under the protection of the King and the laws.  Permit us to Subscribe ourselves,

Sir
Your Honor's loyal, obedient and
devoted Servants

Martin Mason
Richd Rouse
John Bowman
I.W. Lewin
Daniel Langton
Caleb Wilson
James Davison
Andw Johnston
John Howe
John Johnston
James Mein
John Turnbull 

Hawkesbury

1st May 1808 -

1st May 1808

Copy of an address prepared and intended to have been presented to Lieutnt Governor Paterson on his arrival, from some of the principal Settlers at Hawkesbury.

(Nº. 24)