Rev. sir, Our destitute state earnestly bespeaks your compassion. If you shall ... read the following address to your people, and recommend our afflicted case to their kindness and charity, and make a collection for us ... Salem, March 6, 1775.----To the charitable and benevolent. The humble address of the Third Church and congregation in Salem, in the province of Massachusetts-Bay. - Whitaker, Nathaniel, ([publisher not identified],, 1775)