whereof I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the Treasury Department of the United States to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, this 26th day of Nov. in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of

had been placed on whisky and I have made as a part of this paper, his diary entries, jotted down until the ,company left the borders of Lancaster County. "In 1794 an insurrection broke out in the western counties of the state an open resistance against the excise laws. Gen. Washington called on the