COLONEL JAMES CRAWFORD. On the 15th day of December, 1774, James Crawford was elected from Han- over, Pa., as one of the sixty freehold- ers' committee to "observe the conduct of all persons touching the general as- sociation of the General Congress" .... .."which committee shall divide into

those speaking a familiar language ; and this rule holds good in the main to this day. Early in the spring of the year 1796 Charles Sproul, a native of county Ar- magh, in the north of Ireland, with his wife and family sailed for Philadelphia, his son, James Sproul, the subject of this sketch, being

COLONEL JAMES CRAWFORD, The paper read at the meeting of the Historical Society of Lancaster County on September 2, 1898, prepared by J. W. Sheaffer, of Illinois, contains some statements not borne out by historical data. General Anthony Wayne's troops never encamped in Mount Joy, in Lan- caster