, Smith, and Cresap were the first troops ever levied on this continent by the authority of a central government. On the following day George Washington was appointed commander-in-chief by the same body. Within one week a call was issued for two more companies of Lancaster County men. They responded

help of her soldier son. He literally left the plow in the fur- row, the harvest ungathered, without other clothing or equipment than the clothing he wore he shouldered his trusty rifle and hastily collecting a half dozen of the young men of his neighborhood started afoot on his journey of four hundred

end" of our county. George III in order to belittle the Revolution sneered at it as "a Pres- byterian war." When we consider the big part the Scotch-Irish p l ayed in the contest, in field and cabinet. the king was one-fourth right at least. At any rate, the spirit which animated. Col. Porter was

the commerce of the United states. From this grew the present American Navy. The records of the War Department of June 5, 1794, show that Washington appointed Barry as the ranking com- mander of the new naval armament ordered to be built by Congress. The commission was signed by Washing- ton on his