Petition of Naomi Smith to the St. Andrew's Society requesting more assistance, identifying herself as someone who has received assistance in the past.
Petition of Sarah Burche to the St. Andrew's Society Treasurer, pressing him to send her money that he had promised to her and expressing that her family relies on it for their survival.
Work on paper in ink and wash. Black and sepia; bare tree in left foreground with branches growing toward right; hills to right; dark clouds and water in background.
Work on paper in ink and watercolor dated 1796. View across the water to a row of houses along the Battery. A yellow-orange, pink, and larger white house stand flanked by smaller white supporting structures. A sailboat with a red sail sits in front of the land while a larger ship to the right of both the boat and land sails away out of the image.
