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To his Excellency the President, and Honourable Delegates of the United States of America in Congress Assembled
The Memorial and Petition of a number of inhabitants of Kentuckey Settlement, westward of the Cumberland on the waters empting into the Ohio River
Humbly then ask.
That your Memorialists have at a great expense and hazard (and some of us at the expence of our all) with a view and expectation of procouring a sufficiency of land for the support of themselves and families, on which they hoped to settle, and enjoy the remainder of their Days in peace and happiness. But they are sorry to be under the disagrable necessity to complain - they are disappointed in their expectations.
Your Hounours will please to observe that when the State of Virginia opened a Land Office for the (???) of land on the western waters, there was Commissioners appointed for certain Districts in the western Teritory, to settle and adjust the claimants Titles for Services done improvements made on vast unappropriated Land in said Country, for which they were entitled to certain quantities of Land; whose powers were limitted for a certain time, but for unforeseen casualities, the great distance of their way, the Commissioners powers expired before many of us could attend to lay in our claims, and many that did attend for want of evidence in time to prove services and improvements lost the just right; and for reasons unknown to your Memorialists, when the Commissioners powers by Act of Assembly were prolonged in the other Districts, the Commissioners of Kentuckey District were Discontinued to their great loss (three words crossed out) of our just claims and rights, and others of us being unaquainted with the Case Law establishing a Land Office, were in expectation of obtaining a reasonable settlement in vasle(?) unappropriated Land as formerly in frontier unsettled Countries, but to their great loss and surprise were ...

To his Excellency the President, and Honourable Delegates of the United States of America in Congress Assembled
The Memorial and Petition of a number of inhabitants of Kentuckey Settlement, westward of the Cumberland on the waters empting into the Ohio River
Humbly then ask.