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tendency to preserve our good and inestimable constktJP* 

 tion, and our dear Independence and sweet Liberty. 

 Be active and do not fail to fulfil our request. 



John RogerSj Colonel. 

 To the Colonels of Lancaster countyy militia^ 

 Hanover, November 28tli, 1782, 



Militia Meeting. 



Present : Colonel Thomas Edwards, colonel Ziegler^ 

 colonel Lowry, majors Cook, Kelly, Hays and Hare^ 

 colonel Ross, Mr. Chambers, captain Ewing, captain J, 

 Hubley, colonel Rogers, ^Ir. Clark, captain Laird, colo- 

 nel Elder. 



On motion, colonel Rogers was unanimously chosenr: 

 chairman, and captain Joseph Hubley, secretary. 



Colonel Rogers made a neat and appropriate speech, 

 explaining the objects of the meeting, that a rumor was 

 in circulation calculated to do much injury: " That the 

 President^' of the State of Pennsylvania was hostile 

 to the independence of America.''^ 



On motion, this question was put to each battalion ; Is 

 it the opinion of the members present, that they approve 

 of the appointment of John Dickinson, Esq. as President 

 of the State of Pennsylvania, or not ? Answer : The 

 aiiembers of the second battalion are of opinion that a 

 'better choice of a President could not be made. 



Colonel Ziegler, same opinion; seventh battalion, samej 

 eighth battalion, same; ninth battalion: we hope the 



*The persons who presided over the Executive council of 

 E*ennsylvania, from 1779 to 1790, were styled Presidents. The 

 ilrst under the constitution of 1779, was Thomas Wharton ; 

 second, Joseph Read; third, John Dickinson; fourth, Benja^ 

 anin Franklin ; lii'th, Thomas Mifflin. In 1790, a new constitu- 

 tion was adopted. Thomas Mifflin was elected governor, Octo* 

 bcr r2th 1790. 



