To his Excellency the governor and the Executive Council of the State of Pennsylvania. May it Please your Honours, to take the following Lines under your Consideration, and write an answer by Mr. Jno. Steinmetz who will take Care and send it to me. There was part of the Road Leading from Shippensburg to Clark’s Gap, was intended to be altered and made shorter and Better ground for the State Road, and it was not marked out by the Commissioners when on the ground, and now the Townships of Shothampton, Lurgan and Lettereany, lying Between my Road and Shippensburg, Refuses to Cut and clear the Road through There Townships, without your Direction for that purpose. I pray that your Honors would be Pleased to appoint Mr. Matthew Henderson, Surbeyor of Cumberland Country and lives in Shippensburg to assist me in marking the Lines Through the Three Townships, untill it meets my Road on this side of the mountain for which your Honors will please to give the supervisors of said Three Townships a strick Charge to have the State Road oppened Through their Townships the way that the Surveyor will mark, as soon as Possible, as it will be a loss to the Public should it not be opened. I am going on with the Road as fast as possible, and has it half Done, but I am affraid I must stop for want of Money, Except your Honors will agree with Daniel Duncan of Shippensburg to Supply me with Cash untill I can get Dun, which will be about the last of August if not hindered for want of money, Indeed I should never been able to go on as I have for the first order and he was so unfortunate as to have it lost and as I am Informed has never been able to get the money untill this Day, and all the Letters that he has Reed. Respecting it agrees that it will be paid in papermoney, that was not the kind of money I Received from Mr. Duncan for the order, Neither is it the kind I was to Receive from Council, for the Bargin was for Specie, know other sort will ever make a Road over these Mountains, and all that I am to Receive is too little for such work. I Beg that I may not be stoped for want of money. Your Honors will Please to appoint proper Persons to view the Road that I have made and they will see that I have made the Road more than half and agreeable to my Contract with your Honors, I would be glad how soon the viewers was sent to the ground for the work is half Dun, I will take the liberty to say that it is a very good Road much Better than Ever was Expected for that small Quantity of money I am to do it for. I am with great Respect your Honors, Obedient Humble Servant