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Philadelphia prices ; that he will confine himself, and his 

 workmen to that work and carry on the same as expedi- 

 tiously as he can, and that he will deliver in to the com- 

 missioners and assessors of this county or to this com- 

 mittee as many muskets. (If further proceedings were 

 had, they cannot be found. 



Note. — Members of Assembly from Lancaster county for 

 1775; Curtis Grubb, Matthias Slough, George Ross, James 

 Webb, Thomas Porter, Bartram Galbraith. 1776: William 

 Brown, John M'Millan, Philip Mar.steller, James Anderson, 

 Alexander Louicy, Ludwig Loumau. 



CHAPTER IX. 



Course of the niotlicr country objectioiiablc — Tdilitarj convfritioii at Lan- 

 rastor — Daniel Kobertleau t>nJ James Ewing elected Brigadier Generals — 

 Resolutions passed and adojUed — Committee of safety ; Convention to- 

 form the first State constitution, Pennsylvania and Lancaster county 

 active — Numerous inciuesits, &c. in Lancaster county during the RevolU'- 

 tion — General Wayne's head quarters and correspondence with his 

 excellency, Thomas Wharton, president of t'.ie executive council of Penn- 

 gylvania — Congress repairs from Philadelphia to Lancaster, thence to 

 York — Military meeting at .Manhciiu — Survi\ingP.evoIulionary soldicrs^- 

 Notes, &c. 



The course pursued hy the mother country, incensed 

 the people of the several colonies — a continental Congress 

 assembled at Philadelphia, Sept. 4, 1774 — resolutions 

 were passed approving the course of the people of Mas- 

 sachusetts, in opposition to Gen. Gage — the open and 

 decided hostilities eventuated in bloodshed at tlie battle 

 of Lexington, April 19, 1775 ; which was soon followed 

 by another, the battle of Bunker Hill, Juno 17tli. To 

 meet the emergency, the colonists held conventions, mili- 

 tary and other meetings. In this great conflict between 



