LANCASTER COUNTY. 387 



Reading, 2d January, 1775. 



This day the committee of this county met here. A 

 letter from the committee of correspondence of the City 

 and Liberties of Philadelphia, (meaning the same above,) 

 was laid before them proposing a provincial convention, 

 to be held at Philadelphia, the 22d instant. The letter 

 being duly considered, the committee unanimously agreed 

 to the proposed convention, and appointed Edward Bid- 

 die, Jonatha'n Potts, Mark Bird, Christopher Shultz, John 

 Patton, Sebastian Levan, and Balzer Gehr, a committee 

 to attend to said convention, in behalf of this county. — 

 The committee then proceeded to choose a committee of 

 correspondence, and Edward Biddle, William Reerer, 

 Mark Bird, Jonathan Potts, and Christopher Wittman, 

 were duly elected a committee of correspondence for this 

 county. Extract from the proceedings of the committee. 



Jonathan Potts, Clerk, 



Another letter from the same committee of correspond- 

 ence of the county of Berks, to the committee of this 

 place, viz : 



Gentlemen : Enclosed is an extract from the proceed 

 ings of the committee of this county, by which you will 

 see that deputies are appointed to attend the proposed 

 provincial convention. 



When we consider that our disputes are drawing fast to 

 a crisis, and that the most cordial unanimity is absolutely 

 necessary for our preservation ; we cannot doubt but that 

 your respectable committee will without hesitation appoint 

 deputies to attend the provincial Congress. The neglect 

 of any one county may have the most fatal consequences. 

 And we well know the pleasure it would give our ene- 

 mies to see even the appearance of a disunion at this 

 very important time* 



