Petition of Isaac Ryckman

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To the Honourable Provincial Congress of NEW-YORK:

GENTLEMEN: Whereas your Petitioner, being very desirous of serving his country against the arbitrary and lawless attempts of a designing Ministry to banish freedom from this once happy and free land, and erect the standard of despotism in its stead, — and as your Petitioner has ever been distinguished as a hearty friend and well-wisher to the American cause, and is now actually in the service as a Sergeant, in Captain Johnson' s Company, of Colonel McDougall' s Regiment, and a native of this city, of parents ever distinguished as friends to the privileges of this city and to the American cause in general — (when your Petitioner entered the service, it was in expectation of being promoted; but finding that impracticable without the assistance of this honourable Congress) — he has thought proper, with the advice of his friends, to make this humble application; praying that your Honours may be pleased to

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And your Petitioner, as in duty bound, shall every pray, &c.

ISAAC RYCKMAN, JUN.

To Nathaniel Woodhull, Esq˙, President of the Provincial Congress, New-York.