As a citizen of Pennsa. and much more as a civil officer, I consider myself under the strongest obligation to lay before you the information I have received respecting the state of things and the measures now pursuing at that part of the Country called Wyoming. As you will perceive by the letters inclosed Col. Ethan Allen from Vermont at the solicitation of a certain Captain Solomon Strong of the state of New York, has arrived there, who with Col. John Franklin a liver at Wyoming have been endeavoring to take off and divert the people who had entered into recognizances before Esqr. Shaw from their allegiance to this state and to go into measures for erecting a new state; which is to include a part of this and part of N. York state. However wild the scheme, I believe they have made many converts at Wyoming, particularly among the late comers, and half share men, as they are called; who have no change of pleading an early occupancy, or regular settlement, of course cannot flatter themselves with having any plea to hold their improvements under the jurisdiction of this state. Besides the above letters sent me by an Express I have had the opportunity of being more fully informed of the same things by William Shaw, Esq., and Thomas Grant Esq., who are just arrived from there; so that with me the matter is beyond all doubt, that a new Independent state is intended and that speedily. Col Ethan Allen and Franklin are now gone to meet the Susquehanna Company in Conn. and are expected to return in four or five weeks. What the consequences will be or where it will end is not easy to forsee, but I conceive it would be sound policy and will be found absolutely necessary to take the most speedy and effectual measures to send up such a body of troops there as would support and give countenance to all who would desire to continue in their allegiance to this state, confirm the wavering and check the giddy in their mad career; if this could be done so that the world would see the state only meant to support the peaceable Inhabitant having title and property to be disposed of in Courts of Law, It would probably divide those people among themselves, and facilitate a full establishment of the jurisdiction of the state there; If our General Assembly at their next meeting go on to set that district off as a separate County, I believe it would tend to the same happy purpose, as it will open the way to some of the honors and emoluments of a County, which will operate as a counterpose to the honors and emoluments expected in a new state, and indeed submission to government, circumstanced and situated as they are, subject to a great number of petty suits and no Justice of the peace nearer than fifty miles, is a real difficulty and should be removed as soon as possible—that troops (if any) will be raised, is not for me to determine but I sincerely believe none can be more unfit for this business than militia, for a variety of reasons which I need not mention. But convinced I am unless something is done and that speedlly and effectually a new state will be attempted to be created within a very short time; whereas, a vigorous and timely opposition on liberal principles may crush the whole scheme and establish Peace in that unhappy district. William Shaw, Esq., who also writes you on this business sends you a copy of an intercepted letter properly authenticated which lays open their whole scheme. The Letters and papers inclosed will also shew their design and the pains taken by the signers to prevent the people being mislead. They sent them to me by a special Express and wished that it might not be generally known how they came by some part of their information that they had communicated it so fully; as it would render their situation very insecure, unless they received timely and effectual support. I hope his Excellency the President and the Hon’ble the supreme Executive Council will pardon my plainness on this occasion, as I look upon the affair to be of so much importance and of so serious a nature as to render a scrupulous attention to ceremony improper. Gentlemen, I am, with the most sincere Respect His Excellencys and your Honours Humble Servant,