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12018-08-15T17:38:41-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72002(annotation)plain2018-08-15T17:39:07-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aTo the Honourable John Penn Esq.r Governor of the of the Province of Pensilvania & of the Counties of New Castle, Kent & Sussex on Delaware, & to the Representatives of the Freemen of said Province in Assembly [metts]
We William Brown Matthew Smith & James Gibson in behalf of ourselves & his Majesties faithfull & loyal subjects the Inhabitants of the Frontier Counties of Lancaster York Cumberland, Berks & Northampton, humbly beg leave to remonstrate, & to lay before you the following grievances, which we submitt to your Wisdom for Redress.
1st We apprehend that as Free Men & English Subjects, we have an undisputable Title to the same Priviligies & Immunities with his Majesties other Subjects who reside in the interior Counties of Philadelphia Chester & Bucks & therefore ought not to be excluded from an equal share with them in the very important [Priviliges] of Legislation. Nevertheless, contrary to the Proprietors Charter & the acknowledged Principles of common Justice & Equity our five Counties are restrained from electing more than ten Members Representatives viz. four for Lancaster, two for York, two for Cumberland, one for Berks, & one for Northampton, while the three Counties & City of Philadelphia, Chester & Bucks elect twenty five, this we humbly conceive is offensive, unequal & unjust, the cause of many of our Grievances & an infringement of our natural privileges of freedom & Equality, wherefore we humbly pray that we may no longer be deprived of an equal number with the three aforesaid Counties to represent is in Assembly
2dly We understand that a Bill is now before the house of Assembly wherein it is provided that such persons as shall be charged with killing any Indians in Lancaster County shall not be tried in the County where the Fact was committed, but in the Counties of Philadelphia Chester or Bucks. This is manifestly to deprive British Subjects of their known Privileges, to cast an eternal reproach upon whole Counties as if they were unfitt to serve their Country in the quality of Jury Men, & to contradict the well known laws of the British Nation in a Point, whereon Life
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12018-08-15T16:45:12-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aManuscript Copy of Remonstrance - 11Manuscript copy of remonstrance from Matthew Smith and James Gibson to Governor John Penn2018-08-15T16:45:12-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
