(a) LANCASTER COUNTY CONTRIBUTORS TO RELIEF OF BOSTON, 1774 Among the manuscripts in the Manuscript Department of the Library of the Pennsylvania Historical Society at Philadelphia in a Volume entitled "Lancaster County Miscellaneous Papers," pp. 5 and 7 appear the following documents: "We whose

members of the Continental Con- gress who had signed the Declaration of Independence, was absent. He seems to have been serving elsewhere on a Congressional Committee. �There is no authentic information as to where the distinguished visitors lodged during their short stay in Lancaster. With little doubt

George Washington as follows: Lancaster, Sepr. 24th, 1777 Sir In Consequence of your Letter of the 22d directed to the President or any Member of Congress, I have conferred with William Henry Esqr. of this Place upon the most expeditious Method of collecting the arms and accoutre- ments in the Hands of

. 1775. Member of State Assembly from Lancaster County. Record Penna. Assembly Sept. 24, 1776. Rupp's History of Lancaster County, page 404. 1776. Member of the Convention to form the Constitution. Rupp's History Lancaster Co., p. 408. 1776. Colonel of Third Battalion, Lan- caster County Militia. 1777

Philadelphia on the night of March 4th, 1798. The next morning, President Adams informed Congress of their arrival; and two weeks later, sent to that body his startling message, declaring that the envoys could not succeed "on terms compatible with the safety, the honor, or the essential in- terests of the