" The healthy huntsman, with a cheerful horn, 

 Summons the dogs, and greets the dappled morn; 

 The jocund thunder wakes th' enliven'd hounds. 

 They rouse from sleep, and and answer sounds for 

 sounds." 



The War of the Revolution dispersed most of the mem- 

 bers of the Club, and consequently suspended active op- 

 erations on the theatre of sport. Its shrill trumpet sum- 

 moned the chivalrous hunter from the pleasures of the 

 chase, to the severer and all important duties of the field. 

 The call was heard and promptly obeyed. The intrepid 

 hunter's spirit became the soldier's, and with very few 

 exceptions, the club entered with an ardor and alacrity 

 worthy of patriot souls into the service of the noble 

 cause of an oppressed country. 



No less than tiventy-two of the club associated and 

 viz. formed the "First Troop of Philadelphia City Cavalry" 

 its President SAML. MORRIS, Captain.— }o\\n Dunlap, 

 Cornet. — Thomas Leiper, First Serjeant. — Samuel How- 

 ell, Jr. First Corporal. — Levi Hollingsvvorth, John Mease, 

 Blair M'Clenachan, Thomas Peters, James Caldwell, 

 Samuel Caldwell, John Lardner, Alexander Nesbit, Jon- 

 athan Penrose, George Graff, John Boyle, James Mease, 

 Isaac Cox, Thomas Bond, William Turnbull, John Mitch- 

 ell, Joseph Wilson and David Potts, nearly all of whom 

 faithfully served in the troop, in the memorable campaigns 

 of '76 and '77. So that it appears indisputably, on in- 



