To William Montgomery (unpublished)
In Council, Philada, May 27, 1786.
Sir,

The Council have received your Letters of the 17th and 20th instant, by Gen’l Bull, containing the important Intelligence of fresh Disturbances at Wyoming, which will be taken into Consideration. We are sensible of your attention to the Public Welfare, manifested in these Dispatches; and desire you would continue to send us what farther Information you may from time to time obtain of the Proceedings in that part of the Country, using in the mean while what Influence you have to quiet the minds of the unhappy Settlers thereby assuring them, that there is the best Disposition in the Government to treat them equitably and even with kindness, and to take them under its Protection, and extend to them all the Privileges of our free and happy Constitution, on their demonstrating by their peaceable and orderly Behaviour, that the Sentiments express’d in their late Petition to the Ge. Assembly are sincere, and that they are truly dispos’d to become good Citizens. We hope they will wisely pursue this Conduct, and thereby render all though of taking compulsive Measures unnecessary. I am, with much esteem, Sir, your most humble servant.

B. F., Presidt.

Directed   Wm Montgomery, Esqr, President of the Courts of Common Pleas Quarter Sessions and Orphan’s Court, Northd Coy.
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