To His Excellency the President and the Honorable the Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Subscriber begs leave to present himself as a candidate for the office of prothonotary for the county of Luzerne.

I have been informed that the bill for erecting the Wioming district into a seperate county is passed into a law, and that the civil officers for the country are now to be appointed. The office of prothonotary has been proposed to my consideration, on these grounds, that the forming that district into a seperate county was intended as a conciliatory measure, That with the same view, it must be the desire of government to appoint such persons to the civil offices in the county as may be most likely to allay the jealousies subsisting among the New-England settlers, and at the same time possess the confidence of the rest of the state. That being a native of New-England (tho’ not of Connecticut) the settlers will be gratified by my appointment, and that having for several years been conversant in and an inhabitant of Pennsylvania, I am here sufficiently known, and the gentlemen who has proposed the office to me, have been pleased to say that I should doubtless enjoy the confidence of the state. If these opinions are well founded, there will be no impropriety in my requesting of your Excellency and the Honourable the Council to be appointed prothonotary for the county of Luzerne, which office will be gratefully accepted, and I trust, duely executed. I have the honour to be, most respectfully, Your Excellency’s and Honours’ Obedient servant

(To the President and Council

In the application which yesterday I had the honour to lay before your Excellency and the Council, I did not advert to the offices of clerk of the court of sessions and clerk of the Orphan’s Court, for the county of Luzerne. In new counties, it seems they are usually annexed to the office of prothonotary; and in their nature the three offices appear to be closely connected. If therefore your Excellency and the Council shall be pleased to honour me with the appointment to the office of prothonotary, I would then request to be appointed clerk of the Court of Sessions and Clerk to the Orphans Court, for the county of Luzerne.

To the Honourable the Representatives of the Freemen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Genl. Assembly, met, the subscriber begs leave to present himself as a candidate for the offices of Register of Wills and Recorder of Deeds for the county of Luzerne.

The erecting of the Wioming District into a seperate county appears to be a conciliatory measure which government will by every means cherish and promote. If your petitioner, as a native of New England and at the same time an inhabitant of Pennsylvania, may reasonably hope to enjoy the Confidence of the state and of the settlers in that idstrict, and thus be enabled to advance the conciliatory views of the legislature in the act referred to. He would then pray to be appointed to the offices for which he has now offered himself a candidate. And your petitioner shall every pray &c