. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . al ofa full decade more. When the Assembly met on the morning of the 5th ofOctober they sent a committee to assure President Reedof their support of his measures the day before and resumedbusiness, chief of which was consideration of regulation offood prices. Messrs. Clymer, Smith and Harris were as-signed to take up some petition along this line, andColonel Smith became one of a committee of four to ar-range with Council some method of showing honor toGeneral Wayne and the troops of the Pennsy
. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . al ofa full decade more. When the Assembly met on the morning of the 5th ofOctober they sent a committee to assure President Reedof their support of his measures the day before and resumedbusiness, chief of which was consideration of regulation offood prices. Messrs. Clymer, Smith and Harris were as-signed to take up some petition along this line, andColonel Smith became one of a committee of four to ar-range with Council some method of showing honor toGeneral Wayne and the troops of the Pennsylvania the 9th he was made chairman of a committee to bringin amendments to the government security and militialaws, which were promptly acted upon, and on the loth,after recommending certain unfinished laws to the nextAssembly, and urging delegates in Congress to by allmeans use every endeavor to solve the problem of publicfinances and the currency, the Assembly, the last in whichColonel Smith was to serve, and one in which he had beenone of the ablest and most useful members, came to a. James Wilson Half-lone of miniature in possession of rhomas H. Montgomery, Esq., West Cliester, Pennsylvania OPPOSITION TO THE CONSTITUTION 121 close with the Constitution of 76, more strongly en-trenched than ever, but only for a time, until the excite-ments of the Revolution should abate and time should healsome of its wounds.^ Simon Gratz, Esq., of Philadelphia, has the manuscript orderof the Speaker of the House on State Treasurer David Ritten-house, for Colonel Smiths salary and mileage for 215 miles of traveldated October 9, 1779, and calling for £422 10 shillings. Mr Gratzalso has a letter of Mr. Smith, dated July 19, 1790, which saysreferring to the Bedford region in 1778-9-80: I was in that part ofthe country during that period. & neither then, nor at any timebefore I received your letter, did I hear of a Fort of that name(i<ort Whig)—perhaps it was baptized for t
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