that one of the Pennsylvania signers, James Smith, had read law in Lancaster and was here admitted to the bar. This encouraged a search for information concerning Mr. Smith's connection with Lancaster, and I take pleasure in present- ing this brief paper to our Lancaster County Historical Society on

me of an earlier opportunity of acknowledging the favor of your address. But a testimony of kindness so flattering to me, and a display of philanthropy so honorable to yourselves, will be forever remembered with gratitude and respect. "The great objects of a free government must be to establish

September, 1785, to June, 1787. Jasper Yeates was chairman of the Committee of Correspondence for Lancaster County. He was appointed by Governor Thomas Mifflin, on March 21, 1791, to sit as a justice in the State Supreme Court. He remained on the bench until his death at Lancaster, March 14, 1817. Robert

for Thomas McKean, the governor-elect, and returned to �the place of entertainment. After spending some time there, they again paraded in the evening, in the same form. A large lantern, with the name Thomas McKean and the date 1776 on it in trans- parent letters, was carried in the parade. The members

paper was written my attention has been called to a meeting of the "Columbia Grays" and "Columbia Hunters" which was held in the town hall in Columbia, Pa., on Saturday evening, November 17th, 1832. Captain Michael Way was appointed president, Captain James Haughy vice-president, and Moses Montgomery