Kanawha Salines Aug 4/61
Gov Pierpoint [sic]
Your Excellency
A citizen of Boone County intelligent and loyal has requested me to furnish you the following names as suitable persons for the office specified for Boone & Logan Viz-
| For adjutant | Boone Co. | John Atkins esy |
| `` Cap. Patrols | `` `` | Cumberland Atkins |
| `` `` `` | Wyoming`` | John Cook |
| `` adjutant | `` `` | Charles Stewart |
Please forward with commissions copies of the causes on these subjects - I should be glad to get also a stock of the addresses of the convention, then [illegible] names, your message and documents and Hallets argument of the constitutional question - sketches of the laws to [unreadable] I was unable to get or carry many of them - The distracted condition of the country has cut off all knowledge of the acts and doings of our new government - and we are yet without postal communication, except government boats from Gallipolis - MT. Wm H. Langley of Gallipolis will promptly forward all communications addressed to me - For a man under the law of Wise [unreadable]. I receive due share of constitution - The People are sound and ready to accept our authority - Of sound men of our gentry we have a meager account-
With Great Respect
L Ruffner
Transcription by Victoria Souhala, undergraduate student enrolled in Dr. Billy Joe Peyton's Fall 2010 "Introduction to Public History" at West Virginia State University