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Major Samuel Nicholas of the Marine Corps. 



Lt. Anthony Morris, of the militia, killed at the battle of 



Princeton. 

 Lt. Col. William Bradford. 



Captains John Graff and John Wharton of the militia. 

 Captain Tench Francis, of the rifle corps, &c. 



Several others appeared in the ranks of the Quaker and 

 Silk Stocking Companies, so designated on account of the 

 wealth or high standing of the spirited gentlemen general- 

 ly composing those corps, raised in the city, and in other 

 volunteer corps of infantry, at a crisis in affairs vvhen neu- 

 trality was treason, and every patriot citizen buckled on 

 his armour, and prepared to defend his home and the in- 

 estimable liberties of a country, dear to him by birlh or 

 adoption. 



In the late war especially, many of the military disposed 

 citizens of the State in Schuylkill, evincing the aynor 

 patrise, marched to the tented field, some officering and 

 some volunteering as privates, were enrolled in the troop, 

 and in infantry corps, marched to and encamped at Camp 

 Dupont, prepared for active operations, to repelling inva- 

 sion, or for any emergency. 



The patriots motto was engraven on every heart, 



" Pret pour mon pays. " 

 As illustrative of the prevailing esprit de corps of the citi- 



