[1 Copy 1] [Barrell XXIV·59 Fig a] Boston 15 June 1789 May it please your, Excellency, When a Citizen who is an entire Stranger, solicited many Benefits of another, he in every respect his good. Here is an Awkwardness in the Request that it is necessary, if Possible, to get away; but when he dares to aim in every Respect at [undecipherable] his Patron, the Inducement is proportionably reasonable & the higher Reasons are necessary in his Justification. May it please your Excellency with [undecipherable] adopting the following Relief. Having lost on my late Voyage, with the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] & [Profess'd?] of the [memorable?] Thomas, into which, in lieu of the [undecipherable] Imagin[ation?], on Stocks are very [undecipherable] flattering a [undecipherable] of Property, they very [undecipherable] in many other been [undecipherable] used; my Father, & [undecipherable] [undecipherable], a [undecipherable] young man & a Secretary when the War commenced; [undecipherable] of time, one, early & decided Attachment to the [Cause?] of your Country's Interest [undecipherable] & being [devoted?] to public [undecipherable], (to the amount of [undecipherable] ten thousand Pounds [undecipherable]) very large Sum of [undecipherable] Bills in [undecipherable] & of the [Federal?] [undecipherable] Income [undecipherable] during [Great?] Britain & by the Operation of War — of a great lot of one [hundred?] [undecipherable] being carried off by the [British?], [undecipherable] — & the [undecipherable] which fails to [undecipherable] for the life of my [undecipherable] above — the tedious of those [undecipherable] in Government [undecipherable] — having thus, through the losses of the War, [undecipherable] been [undecipherable], lacking stock [undecipherable] the same time [undecipherable] sustaining those [undecipherable], & [undecipherable] some many years a [great?] Mass of Property, while that [undecipherable] Society was, capable waiting in our Hands; we found ourselves, at the Close of the War, at the [Brink?] of Ruin, [undecipherable] from Affluence [undecipherable] to Dependence & absolute Poverty. Two [undecipherable] starts were made to recover our [undecipherable] from the [undecipherable] commenced & but did not succeed; I understood on some of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that some Exertion to embrace my [Situation?] was [undecipherable] made, while at length of [undecipherable] some, the [undecipherable] for my Support [undecipherable] having [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] being among [undecipherable] of my respectable Individuals to unite [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Possibly making the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] lately, in such as [undecipherable] the Office of Justices of the Peace & Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of [Suffolk?]? That I am [undecipherable] not being suffered thereby [undecipherable] with the most rapid & [undecipherable] your Excellence to have for some appointment under the Federal Government. That I might [undecipherable] this Application with Respect, & [undecipherable] to several Gentleman in New York, for [undecipherable] many respects [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] nearly to [undecipherable] with our Federal [undecipherable] Excellency [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] to my Support. Should Such Appointment be made [undecipherable] & solicit the Grant of it, or your Excellency's Recommendation to those in whose Gift it may be. If any Thing more Suitable or beneficial presents itself to you, your [Salomon?] & good Officer will lay me under the highest Obligations & is recommended to me in that Same fact, if it be but reputable, & I can perform the Post assigned me to Acceptance. With the [Candour?] [undecipherable] from your, [undecipherable] Hand[?], & Ardency will carry this Application, & Determination from more important [undecipherable]; if you can consistently confer such Office as I could perform with [?] to the public Advantage. I have from Motives of 40 [undecipherable], [undecipherable] Patriotism, & [undecipherable] Interest, endeavour to be Useful to you, Patronage & the Recommendations of friends by a faithful Discharge of all Duties. I am with Pleasure refers for such Information as may be necessary to his Excellency the Vice President, & all the Gentlemen in both Houses of the Federal government from Massachusetts; & to the honorable Mess^rs Johnson, Thomas, [Mungs?], Wadsworth & [undecipherable] in all from Connecticut; and by particular [undecipherable] of General Lincoln. Each with perfect Satisfaction refer your Excellency to him. I have the Honor to be, I may it please your Excellency Your Excellency's most obedient & most humble Servant Samuel Barrell His Excellency The President of The United States