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MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOUR: SIR, Our difficulties on account of the Connolly party is now grown to an extreme; all we can do or say in favour of our privileges from Pennsylvania will not do; the Depositions sent down, or transmitted to you, will, we hope, give you a sense of their very irregular proceedings.
ROBERT HANNA,
Hanna' s Town, in Westmoreland County, February 13, 1775.
Robert Hanna, William Lochey, John Carnaghan, and Devereux Smith, to Governour Penn
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We are sorry to have occasion to repeat our complaints so often,
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but William Crawford, Esquire, and Dorsey Penticost, hath, each opened a Land Office, and assumed the title of Deputy Surveyors to execute their entries. Several surveys they have already made. The people in general have already given up; and what can we do to support Government, there now being writs granted for almost every acting officer in this County, and we are every day expecting confinement. In short, any person applying for justice to us, may be assured to be arrested by them. James Smith, Captain, was taken and bound over to the Virginia Court, for only applying to the laws of Pennsylvania to have a banditti of villains punished for pulling down his house. Our Jail is of no use; the worst rascal is set at liberty; so we rest with patience, waiting for the opinion of your Honour, with such instructions as you may think adequate to our present difficulties. This from, sir, your Honour' s most obedient and most humble servants,
WILLIAM LOCHEY,
JOHN CARNAGHAN,
DEVEREUX SMITH.