LANCASTER COUNTY. 425 



Assembly have made a good choice, and if they have we 

 thank them. Colonel Elder agrees in opinion with the 

 ninth. 



Resolved, unanimously, That the people have a right 

 to assemble together for their common good, to instruct 

 our Representatives, and to apply to the Legislature for 

 redress of grievances, by address, petition, or remon- 

 strance. 



Resolved, unanimously. That in opinion of the deputies 

 from the different battalions now met, that the complex- 

 ion of the present House of Assembly is such that we 

 have no reason to doubt that the independence and con- 

 stitution of this state are safe, and that we highly approve 

 of his excellency, John Dickinson, Esq. as President. 



Resolved, unanimously. That we approve of colonel 

 Rogers calling this meeting, as it has tended to remove 

 doubts and unjust charges that were in circulation to the- 

 disadvantage of his excellency, the President of this state, 

 and two of our members of Congress, James Wilson and 

 John Montgomery, Esquires; and we conceive such, 

 meetings have a tendency to suppress false and malicious 

 reports, and that thereby virtue may meet with its just 

 reward, and vice be depicted in its true deformity. 



Signed, John Rogers, chairman. 



J. HuBLEY, secretary. 



Manheim, June 15th, 1783. 



For the want of space, we are obliged to close, imper- 

 fect as it is, the sketch of some of those incidents which 

 occurred in this county during the Revolution, by noti- 

 cing some of the surviving Revolutionary soldiers, natives 

 of this county. 



Still a few of the patriotic Revolutionary veterans are 

 living. Of this number is Mr. Philip Meek, of West 

 Lampeter township, now in his 87th year. At the age 



