| Description | Petition of Joseph Wilson late of Kirby Ravensworth farmer. Through several misfortunes and losses, he has been a prisoner for debt in Richmond gaol for nearly ten months, His distress may be increased by his long confinement. He has a wife and six small, helpless children, and his wife is pregnant with their seventh. He is unable to earn any money for his own support, and asks for relief in his present situation
Witnessed by Henry Hale minister of Kirby Ravensworth, John Henderson and Joseph Place, churchwardens, and William Lax and William Wilkinson, overseers of the poor |