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Pet. for clemency
To the Honorable General Summer
Sir we the Subscribers
being sensibly touchd with
Mr Ruben Wheatfields Misfortune
at this time being charged
with entertaining a certain
Meraideth Rukes a Deserter,
we having Informed ourselves
with the Circumstance of
the charge against him, do
not think that he is guilty
of a Breach of that act of
assembly relative to har-
bouring Deserters, as it dont
appear to us that he had
any evil intention in giving