From your great candor and benevolence of temper, I have taken the liberty to address your Excellency on a subject that gives me no little pain.

It is said, there is a disposition in the Supreme Executive Council to make a Change of officer in the Prothonotariship of this County. At the Beginning of the Late Revolution I took an early and decided part in favor of the independency of America, and in 1777 was appointed Prothonotary of the County of Northampton, which office I have had the Honor to hold until this time, and have had a large and dependent family to support. I have now advanced in Life to the age of Sixty Three and upwards, and have strenuously devoted myself at all times to the duties of the Office, and the Public Weal in general; the Profits of the Office are but a support, and to the Honorable Robert Traill Esquire, our present Member of Council, I beg leave, to ask your Excellency, to condescend to enquire into my Conduct therein generally; and should it appear such as may be thought worthy your Countenance, I humbly hope for your Excellency’s Patronage and Interest, to continue me in the Office I hold; the Substance I    being insufficient to maintain my Family, and   far spent in Life to bustle thro it for the support of a Wife and Six Children dependent on me. Thro a long Tract of Time your Excellency may not immediately recollect my Name; I had the Honor to be intimately acquainted with Governor Franklin your Son, and served under him, conducted the Post Office in Philadelphia. Mrs. Beche and the late Mrs. Franklin honored Mrs. Levers with their adquaintance, and the latter always expressed a tender regard towards her. I am Sir Your Excellency’s most obedient and most humble Servant