222 AUTHENTIC HISTOEY 



N. B. The above mentioned extracts, &c. are put among the files of 

 other papers relative to the Committee. 



At a meeting of the Committee of Inspection of the county of Lan- 

 caster, at the Court House, in Lancaster, on Saturday, the 14th day of 

 January, 1775, Edward Shippen, Esq. was chosen chairman. 



It was unanimously agreed that in case of any difference in sentiments, 

 the question proposed be determined by the members of the committee, 

 voting by townships. 



A letter from the Committee of Correspondence of the City and 

 Liberties of Philadelphia, and another letter from the Committee of 

 Correspondence of Berks county, were then read; and it being put to 

 vote, whether this Committee would appoint deputies to meet the other 

 counties of this province in provincial convention, on Monday, the 23d 

 January instant, the same was carried in the affirmative : 



Yeas ; Borough of Lancaster, Ilempfield township, Manheim township, 

 Paxton township, Hanover township, Londonderry township, Mountjoy 

 township, Rapho township, Donegal township, Warwick township, Leba- 

 non township. Bethel township, Elizabeth township. Earl township, 

 Brecknock township, Caernarvon township, Salisbury township, Leacock 

 township, Lampeter township, Sadsbury township. Little Britain town- 

 ship, Drumore township, Colerain township. 



Nays; Lancaster township, Derry township, Strawsburg township, 

 Bart township. 



Absent; Conestoga township. Upper Paxton township, Heidleberg 

 township, Cocalico township, Martick township. Manor township. 



The committee then proceeded to appoint deputies, and the following 

 gentlemen, to wit: Adam Simon Kuhn, James Burd, James Clemson, 

 Esq., Peter Grubb, Sebastian Graff, David Jenkins and Bartram Gal- 

 braith, or any five of them, were nominated to attend the said provincial 

 convention, in behalf of the county of Lancaster. 



Edward Shippen, Chairman. 

 The foregoing proceedings of the Committees and occurrences, are 

 recorded by E. M. (June 3d, 1775.) 



At a meeting of the Committee of Inspection and Observation, of the 

 borough of Lancaster, the 27th of April, 1775, at the house of Adam 

 Reigart. 



Present; Edward Shippen, Esq., William Atlee, William Bausman, 

 Charles Hall, William Patterson, Casper Shaffner, Eberhart Michael, 

 Adam Reigart. 



Edward Shippen, Esq., was chosen president. 



It appearing by intelligence from divers places and by the papers, 

 that General Gage hath at length attacked the inhabitants of Massachus- 

 etts Bay, and killed and wounded many of them, and the latest accounts 



