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tendency to preserve our good and inestimable constitu- 

 rtion, and our dear Independence and sweet Liberty. 

 Be active and do not fail to fulfil our request. 



John Rogers, Colonel. 

 To the Colonels of Lancaster county militia, 

 Hanover, November 28th, 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., Mr. Clark, captain Laird, colo- 

 nel Elder. 



On motion, colonel Rogers was unanimously chosen 

 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 

 io the independence of Ainerica.^^ 



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 ? Jlnswer : The 

 members of the second battalion are of opinion that a 

 better choice of a President could not be made. 



Colonel Ziegler, same opinion; seventh battalion, same; 

 eighth battalion, same ; ninth battalion : we hope the 



♦The persons who presided over the Executive council of 

 Pennsylvania, from 1779 to 1790, were styled Presidents. The 

 first under the constitution of 1779, was Thomas Wharton ; 

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

 min Franklin ; lifth, Thomas Mifflin. In 1790, a new constitu- 

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

 ber 12th 1790. 



