Hannah Stephens, Memorial from Hannah Stephens (1791)
“ The sufferings of your Memorialist and of her Children become insupportable when added to the Distress she feels for her husband, who is continually representing by his Letters his melancholy situation, and praying for the interposition of the United States in his behalf. ”
Hannah Stephens, Memorial from Hannah Stephens (1791)
“ Your Memorialist is likewise under the necessity of entreating, and she now does in the most humble manner, entreats that the Legislature of the United States would also take her necessitous circumstances into their wise consideration, and make some provision for the subsistence of herself and her children, in order that she may have some alleviation of her accumulated load of human woe. as in Duty bound shall ever pray Concord, December 9th 791 This certifies that I believe the facts stated in the above Memorial are true. ”
