To His Excellency Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy, K.H. lieutenant governor and commander in chief, in and over Her Majesty's Island Prince Edward ... the petition of the inhabitants of Prince Edward Island, humbly sheweth that your petitioners, Her Majesty's subjects, are a loyal, patient and industrious people, who have from year to year, and from time to time, reiterated their complaints of having been led into bondage by the grantees and their assigns, who deprive the agricultural inhabitants of the proceeds of their industry, to draw a revenue, or tribute, from the colony