Petition of Edward Brown

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To the honourable the Council and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and now sitting at WATER-TOWN:

The Petition of EDWARD BROWN, of the Town of CONCORD, humbly showeth:

That your petitioner has for years past made lime, much to the advantage of the publick; and in making the same am obliged to use considerable gunpowder to break the stone. There being, at this day, no powder to be purchased for money, as it were in time past, and have now a part of a kiln already to burn, but cannot procure powder to break the rest of the stone, thereby the publick much disappointed; desire therefore I may, for purchasing, have one quarter of a hundred of powder out of the publick stock. And your petitioner, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.

EDWARD BROWN.

Concord, October the 28th, 1776.