Permit me to lay before your Excellency, my Case, which is not only singular but I believe altogether unprecedented.

When the Jurisdiction of Pensylvania after the lession of Virginia first took place in that part of the Country West of the Monongohela River now called Washington County, I was among the first in that Country elected into the magistracy, but a division of the Township for which I was elected taking place before I was Commissioned, I was again elected for that part which is now known by the name of summerset Township, in which I have continued to serve as a Magistrate for more than five years: and I may venture to say without Boasting with the general approbation of my Constituents as well as of the people at large, till having ocasion this Spring to remove my family for some months to a plantation about three miles distant from the one I before resided on a considerable part of which is in the same Township and indeed more convenient to the Township than the former as nearly opposite the middle of it. Notwithstanding I still retain’d and regularly attended as usual on business at that place; a few of the Inhabitants of the Township immediately on my removal and without the privity, concurance or participation of a very great Majority of the Inhabitants therof, applied to John Hog Esqr. of Washington Town fifteen miles distant (tho there were three other Magistrates in the vicinity of the Township) for a Warrant for electing a Magistrate for the Township in my Room tho I had neither resign’d nor in fact left the Township. They notwithstanding the disapprobation and opposition of a very great majority proceeded with the election and elected a William Wallace who served as a Constable for two years in said Township. I shall say nothing of the election or the person elected as there are at present complaints and Documents lying before Council relative thereto. I cannot help complaining as well in behalf of my constituents as myself of the mode of proceeding against me, as illegal, unconstitutional and unprecedented, derogatory to the rights of the Community and incompatible with the priviledges of free Citizens. Relying on the Wisdom and discernment of your Excellency and the Council for every redress and Justice to which on the occasion I am entitled as a member of Community a Citizen and a freeman I have the honour to be with every Sentiment of Respect Sir Your Excellency’s Most obedient humble Servant