Pennsylvania, colonial and federal; a history, 1608-1903Editor: Howard MJenkins . mity thereof to the north-ern limit of the State should be the western boundary. The As-sembly of Pennsylvania ratified this on November 19. but Vir-ginians proceeded to Fort Burd and occupied it. Congress rec-ommended peace and the restoration of the status at the breakingout of the Revolutionary war. In March, 1780, the Assembly ofPennsylvania resolved to eject intruders under claims from otherStates, and authorized the President or \ice-President of theCouncil to raise companies for the internal defence of the
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal; a history, 1608-1903Editor: Howard MJenkins . mity thereof to the north-ern limit of the State should be the western boundary. The As-sembly of Pennsylvania ratified this on November 19. but Vir-ginians proceeded to Fort Burd and occupied it. Congress rec-ommended peace and the restoration of the status at the breakingout of the Revolutionary war. In March, 1780, the Assembly ofPennsylvania resolved to eject intruders under claims from otherStates, and authorized the President or \ice-President of theCouncil to raise companies for the internal defence of the fron-tiers. In a letter to the States delegates in Congress, a contrastis made between the services of Pennsylvania and Virginia in thecommon cause: We have raised troops only to oppose the com-mon enemy . . instead of being eiuployed to make con-Cjuests. . The staple commodity of the State has lieenlocked up by a general embargo for the benefit of the UnitedStates, to the entire stagnation of all trade, while the staple of \ir- 72 -rf£ndlefs-^4-3.^/i Mountftijn«|j^5y. 44*^ Rt-pruilLictioi) oi an Old Map In possession of the Historical Society of Penn-sylvania. Photographed especially for this workby J. F. Sachse ^> Ilidcr the Constitution of 1776 giiiia lias had a free and general exportation. Tlie loans of thisState have greatly exceeded every other. .\tter\vards \irginiaratified tlie agreement and the southern line was so rini in 1784and the western afterwar<ls. Joseph Reed was the first tliiel Magistrate of Pennsylvaniawho was a Preshyterian. He was not a Scotch-Irishman, lint ofa New Jersey family, and native of that colony, one of a group oflawyers whom the importance of Philadelphia had attractedthither just before the breaking out of the Re\olution, Jared In-gersoll. Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, and others, who soon be-came \ ery prominent, and the sons of some of wdiom became evenmore prominent. It is noteworthy that the leading members ofthe Philadelphia bar
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