Esteemed Friend,

Herewith are two Copies of a

Pennsylvannia Society for promoting the aboli-

tion of slavery, [et cetera?] at the special Meeting

the 3^rd Inst. and I have it in charge to request

the President to sign and forward them [at?]

the first Post under Cover; one of them to

the President of the Senate and the other to the

Speaker of the House of Representives of

the United States, with a few lines desiring

the Favor to each to embrace the earliest and

the most suitable opportunity, to present  the

Memorial to the House in which he presides;

and if Directions can be given to have it pub-

lished at largeon their Minutes, it will be

most agreable to the Memorialists,

Thy respectful Friend

(signed)  Jam^s Pemberton

2 mo: 5. 1790

Benjⁿ Franklin Esq
Presid^t of the Pennsyl^a
Society for promoting
the Abolition of Slavery &c [etc].