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maintain, avow end jnstify all and all manner of actions, suits and causes, and all other 

 things to do, as lawfully, freely and fullj^ as if they and every of them had been and 

 were born Natural Subjects of this Province, or as any other Person or Persons born 

 within this Province may lawfully in any wise do, any Law, Custom or Usage to the 

 contrary thereof in any Avise notwithstanding. 



Indorsed, 



Piiiladel'y, the 18 of September. 

 Then lecived of Abraham Witmer the sum of one povnd and two shillings (and one 

 pound before) which is in full for his Naturalization. I say recived by me, 



CHRISTIAN GRASSOLD, Collector. 



The following item was received too late for classification: 



"Caleb Cope, the elder, was Burgess of Lancaster, Pa., under the British Govern- 

 ment, immediately prior to the Revolution. He had five sous — John, William, Thomas 

 P., Israel and r Jasi>er, and also two daughters. Mr. Hennan Cope, just deceased, 

 (1869) was a son of John Cope, the eldest of the brothers, and, consequently, a nephew 

 of Thomas P. Cope. Our respected fellow-townsman, (Philadelphia) Caleb Cope, esq., 

 is a son of the second brother. William. There is an interesting historical reminiscence 

 connected with the Cope family, in Lancaster, which is worthy of note. Major Andre 

 was captured by General Montgomerj', in U])per Canada, while on his way to Quebec, 

 November 3, 1775, find taken, with other officers, to Lancaster, where he became an 

 inmate of Caleb Cope's house. There, the eldest brother, John, then 13 years of age, 

 received lessons in drawing from Major Andre; and the three brothers, John, William 

 and Thomas had, in after life, vivid recollections of their games of marbles and other 

 juvenile sports with the lively young English officer, who was destined to figure so 

 terribly in the after history of this country. ' ' 



