34 



34 George Roberts, 38 Isaac Hopkins, 



35 George Gray, 39 Jonathan Humphreys, 



36 Thomas Shoemaker, 40 John Leacock, 



37 Eden Hajdock, 



Several other gentlemen however belonged, who were 

 probably absent at that period from home. 



After the campaign of 1779, Governor Morris, Josiah 

 Hewes, Joseph Wharton, Samuel Nicholas, Tench Fran- 

 cis, William Govett, William Gray, R. Roberts, Thomas 

 Peters, James Wliite, Benjamin Eyres, Peter Kuhn, and 

 GustavusRisberg, convened by appointment at his quarters 

 and resolved to reorganize and continue the Fishing Com- 

 pany. Events however frustrated the execution of their 

 wishes for years. 



Governor Morris, who commanded the 1st Troop, dis- 

 tinguished for eminent service in the campaigns of 1776 

 and 1777 was again at the head of his gallant corps 

 at Trenton, in consequence of some threatening move- 

 ments of the enemy in New Jersey, and reported to the 

 commander in chief, that he was in the field and ready 

 for further orders. 



Many of the members were yet in active service, in 

 various departments of the army, in the line or in the 

 militia, or in civil situations of usefulness, and high re- 

 sponsibility. 



In 1776 the authority of the Proprietary Lt. Governor 

 John Penn, ceased; he and the Provincial assembly 



