I.A^*CASTER COUNTY. 40fi 



As soon as this convention was organized, it assumed 

 the powers of the committee of safety — the pohtical 

 power of the state. One of its first acts was the appoint- 

 ment of delegates to Congress. The delegates were, 

 Messrs. Franklin, Morton, Morris, Wilson, George Ross, 

 James Smith, Benjamin Rush, George Clymcr and Geo. 

 Taylor. 



Pennsylvania made prodigious exertions, in co-opera- 

 ting with the allied colonies, fully to meet the hostilities. 

 Several regiments were raised and equipped in Lancaster 

 county. '^It is believed, had all the other provinces don« 

 as much in proportion to their ability,^ and the men been 



first state constitution, January 5, 1776 ; South Carolina, March 

 24, 1776; Virginia, June 29, 1776; New Jersey, July 2, 1776; 

 Maryland, August 14,1776; Pennsylvania, September, 1776; 

 Delaware, September, 1776 ; North Carolina. December, 1776 ; 

 New York, April, 1777; Massachusetts, March, 1770 ; Vermont, 

 July 4, 1786; Georgia, May, 1789. 



The first constitution of Pennsylvania of 1776, vras altered 

 and amended by a convention, held at Philadelphia in Novem- 

 ber, 1789. Delegates from Lancaster county were Edward 

 Hand, Robert Coleman, Sebastian Graff, Vv^illiam Atlee, John 

 Hubley, and John Breckbill. This convention framed the 

 second constitution. Another convention was held at Harris- 

 burg, in the spring and summer of 1837. Met May 2 — after 

 two month's session, it afterwards met at Philadelphia. The 

 present or third constitution of Pennsylvania, v.'as framed by 

 this convention. Delegates from Lancaster county were Wil- 

 liam Hiester, James Porter, Jeremiah Brown, Lindley Coates, 

 R. E. Cochran, Joseph Konighmacher, Henry G. Long, 

 Emanuel C. Reigart. 



A convention commenced at Philadelphia, November 20, 

 1787, for the purpose of taking into consideration the consti- 

 tution framed by the federal convention for the United States. 

 The delegates from Lancaster county were Stephen Chambers, 

 Robert Coleman, Sebastian Graff, John Hubley, Jasper Yeatcs, 

 and John Whitehill. 



*Graydon's Mem. 116. 



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