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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 Marsteiler, James Anderson, 

 Alexander Lourey, Ludwig Louman. 



CHAPTER IX. 



Course of the mother country objectionable — Military convention at Lan- 

 caster — Daniel Roberdeau and James Evvina: elected Bris:adier Generals — 

 Resolutions passed and adopted — Committee of safety ; Convention to 

 form the first State constitution. Pennsylvania and Lancaster county 

 active — Numerous incidents, &c. in Lancaster county during the Revolu- 

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

 excellency, Thomas Wharton, president of the executive council of Penn- 

 sylvania — Congress repairs from Philadelphia to Lancaster, thence to 

 York — Military meeting at Manheim — Surviving Revolutionary soldiers — 

 Notes, &c. 



The course pursued by the mother coiuitry, 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 the battle 

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

 by another, the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17th. To 

 meet the emergency, t4ie colonists held conventions, mih- 

 tary and other meetings. In this great conflict between 



