Election this day,
when G. Gray, Henry Pawling, John Dickenson, Joseph Parker, Israel Jacobs,
Jonathan Roberts, Michael Hillegas, and Samuel Rhoads, were chosen
Representatives for this county.
SOURCE: William
Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of Christopher Marshall, Kept
in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the American Revolution, Vol. 1,
1774-1777, p. 11
The Assembly of this Province, taking into consideration the difficulties that have subsisted between Great Britain and her colonies, came into the measure proposed, that a Congress of Deputies from the several Colonies be held, as soon as may be convenient, [and] have appointed the following, viz., Joseph Galloway, Speaker, Samuel Rhoads, Thomas Mifflin, Charles Humphreys, John Morton, George Ross, and Edward Biddle.
SOURCE: William Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of Christopher Marshall, Kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the American Revolution, Vol. 1, 1774-1777, p. 9
