. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . up from his Secondstreet home that beautiful spring morning, how he musthave been impressed with that group of buildings! Imaginehim coming up into the square: there on the northeastcorner, beyond the Philosophical Societys building, wasthe new City Hall, built in 1787, and containing the cham-ber of the National Supreme Court, where his Wilson, sat; there on the northwest corner, builttwo years after the other one, was where Congress sat—the capitol of the United States. On his wa
. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . up from his Secondstreet home that beautiful spring morning, how he musthave been impressed with that group of buildings! Imaginehim coming up into the square: there on the northeastcorner, beyond the Philosophical Societys building, wasthe new City Hall, built in 1787, and containing the cham-ber of the National Supreme Court, where his Wilson, sat; there on the northwest corner, builttwo years after the other one, was where Congress sat—the capitol of the United States. On his way he mayhave passed Chief Justice Jay going to the one andThomas Jefferson going to the other, while he himselfsought the arched entrance of the old Supreme Courtroom in the State House itself—to be greeted for the firsttime by his fellow Justices. When they gathered in their There had been a most disastrous siege of yellow fever theprevious summer. ?^ American Daily Advertiser. January 3, 1794. Stephens Philadelphia Directory, 1796, p. 68. PhiladelphiaLibrary, Juniper and Locust V --a O O •- -^ V ?9 := Q 7) O ?* A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 229 red robes of office on April 7 there were two Doctors ofLaws, namely, the tall and slender Chief Justice ThomasMcKean and the stately Justice Edward Shippen, withJudge Smiths old friend, the florid and portly JusticeJasper Yeates. Justice Smiths commission qiiamdiu sebene gesserit, * * * was published in open court, ^ andwith this ceremony Justice Smith, who was said to be aman of somewhat below medium height and of swarthycomplexion, ascended the bench of the Supreme Courtand anew became a member of the High Court of Errorsand Appeals. The latter, however, because of his prepara-tion for removing at the time of its July session, he didnot attend this year. Justice Smith had long appeared before the bar of thiscourt. The most careful search of the dockets shows norecord of his admission, however, as it does reveal thatof many
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