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