REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE LANCAS- TER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY WHICH ARRANGED THE CELEBRATION HELD SEPTEMBER 21, 1909, AT THE BIRTHPLACE OF ROBERT FULTON TO COM- MEMORATE THE CENTENARY OF THE TRIP UP THE HUDSON RIVER OF FULTON 'S STEAMBOAT, THE CLERMONT. To the President, Officers and Members

Counties of New- castle, Kent and sussex, an Dela- ware. "To Jacob snearer (Highest credi- tor of Theophelus England dec'd), of the County of Lancaster. "Greeting." The letters recite that the Admini- strator shall make a true and perfect inventory of the goods and chattels, etc., of the deceased, and

(Mont- gomery) Patterson.' My aunt Miss Catharine Ramsay an old lady unmar- ried will be in Phila on or after the ninth September She may be heard of or addressed through 'Paul T. Jones' of that place. I shall be in New York about the 16th of September. I expect to be there a week or two & to return

as detailed by him. Graydon was captured at the battle of Long Island, and, along with the other prisoners, was taken to New York city, where he gave his parole and was accorded the freedom of the city. Here he met the traitor, Houssacker, of whom he writes as fol- lows: "He had been originally