OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 231 



Your letter of the 19th October, carae to our hands. According to 

 your desire a proper guard from hence conducted Dr. Kearsley to York, 

 and took a receipt for his safe delivery to the Committee there. J. 

 Brooks remains confined in our goal. A sub-committee of twelve gen- 

 tlemen residing in and near this town, has been appointed to see that 

 your sentence and resolves respecting Brooks be carried into execution, 

 and no person is permitted to visit him but in the presence of one or 

 more of those gentlemen. 



By order of the Committee of Lancaster county. 



The foregoing answer read at the table, was unanimously approved 

 of, and it is ordered that the same be transmitted to the Committee of 

 Safety by the first conveyance. 



Adjourned until to-morrow, eight o'clock. 



Friday, November 10th, 1775. 



The Committee met according to adjournment. 



present: 



The same members who attended yesterday, and moreover Joseph 

 Lytle for Eapho township. 



Upon motion, Resolved, That in case any of the gun-smiths, in the 

 county of Lancaster, upon application made to them by the members of 

 the Committees of the respective townships to which they belong, shall 

 refuse to go to work and make their proportion of the firelocks and bay- 

 onets required of this county, by the honorable House of Assembly, 

 within two weeks from such application agreeable to the patterns, at the 

 Philadelphia prices; such gun-smiths shall have their names inserted in 

 the minutes of this Committee as enemies to their country, and published 

 as such, and the tools of the said gun-smiths so refusing shall be taken 

 from them, and moreover the said gun-smiths shall not be permitted to 

 carry on their trades, until they shall engage to go to work as aforesaid, 

 nor shall leave their respective places of residence until the arms are 

 completed. And it is further 



Resolved, That the Committee of Correspondence and Observation do 

 take especial care that their resolves be carried into execution. 



Christian Isch and Peter Reigart appeared in Committee, and agreed 

 to set to work on Monday, the twentieth day of November instant, and 

 make muskets and bayonets for this county, (part of the number re- 

 quired from this county, by the honorable House of Assembly,) at the 

 Philadelphia prices ; and that they will confine themselves to that work 

 entirely from that time to the first day of March next, and furnish as 

 many as they can possibly complete in the time, and deliver the same to 

 the Commissioners of the county »r this Committee. 



Michael Withers appeared in Committee, and agreed to set to work as 

 soon as he hath completed a few guns which he hath now in hand, and 



