Letter from Thomas Smith to Alexander Dallas

Thomas Smith, a Pennsylvania Judge, writes to Alexander James Dallas, the Secretary of the State of Pennsylvania, about the prosecution Colonel John Montgomery's son. "The prosecution is truly disagreable to me, as besides the long acquaintance and mutual regard between me and the Defendants worthy and distressed father, there is daily intercourse between his family and mine," as Smith explains.   George Clymer carried the letter to Mr. Dallas.  Transcript included.