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of the Citj of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania, Barrister, 

 (the friend of Liberty, the second Pitt, the author of the 

 Farmer's Letters,) for his patriotic productions in behalf 

 of the rights, liberties, and privileges of the present, as well 

 as the rising and future generations in America, is hereby 

 admitted one of our members, for good services done by 

 him to the interest of the British plantations in America, 

 and we do hereby declare that the said John Dickinson, 

 Esq. his admission to be as valid, effectual and sufficient 

 to him, as if he had paid the whole fees, in use to be paid 

 by freemen. Extracted from our book of records, in the 

 Government of St. David's, by me. Deputy Secretary 

 thereof, Witness hereunto my subscription manual, and 

 the seal of the Government affixed. 



HENRY VANDERSPIEGEL, 

 [L. S.] Dep'y. Sec'ry. 



The Silver Box accompanying this attestation of free 

 admission to the privileges of membership, thus sponta- 

 neously awarded to Mr. Dickinson, as the tribute due to 

 his patriotism from the society, and now believed to be in 

 possession of his family bears the following inscriptionsj 



On the top of the box, the cap of liberty on a spear, 

 resting on a cypher of the letters J. D. underneath. Pro 

 Patria, and in a marginal circle surrounding the whole is 

 inscribed "The gift of the Governor and Society of Fort 

 St. David's, to the author of " The Faimer's Letters," in 



