From the inhabitants of New Norfolk 1
To his Excellency Lachlan Macquarie, Esq.
Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over
His Majesty’s Territory of New South Wales and its Dependencies.
The inhabitants of New Norfolk, a settlement formed under the jurisdiction of Hobart Town, most dutifully presume to return Your Excellency our most sincere thanks for your condescension in visiting our Settlement.
Our industrious exertions are fully compensated on receiving your Excellency’s approbation, and we pledge ourselves in future to persevere to the utmost in honest industry, and every effort to advance by agriculture, to the interest of the Colony in general, to merit a continuance of your Excellency’s generous and kind patronage.
Our gratitude for allowing us to remain on the King’
