To His Excellency John Hancock, Esquire, governor of the state of Massachusetts. : Being impressed upon the mind, being a beggar, under the divine operation of the spirit of God ... feeling in my mind to running to the rulers of the state, to do the will of my Heavenly Father, to say to the rulers, repeal your bloody laws, for they are offensive against God . - Babbitt, Christopher, 1730- ([publisher not identified], 1787)