The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants . ns of Congress. It is still in andis shown at historical meetings. the Revolution. Doubtless even the non-resistants among them, as a rule, sym-pathized with the cause oi liberty, buttheir church-discipline did not encour-age opposition to the powers that be. Of the 64 members oi the ContinentalCongress at York 8 were physicians. J3were lawyers and one was a member, Thomas Durke of XorthCarolina, was both phy
The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants . ns of Congress. It is still in andis shown at historical meetings. the Revolution. Doubtless even the non-resistants among them, as a rule, sym-pathized with the cause oi liberty, buttheir church-discipline did not encour-age opposition to the powers that be. Of the 64 members oi the ContinentalCongress at York 8 were physicians. J3were lawyers and one was a member, Thomas Durke of XorthCarolina, was both physician and were gentlemen oi leisure, plant-ers, farmers, merchants etc. A numberwere graduates of colleges. 2h had beensigners of the Declaration of Indepen-dence. Some oi the members were large prop-erty-holders. John Hancock, who hadbeen president <^i the bvxiy at Philadel-phia, was the wealthiest; but there wereothers, like Laurens and Charles were men of affluence. Those ofEnglish descent largely some oi Scotch. Irish. Scotch-Irishand Welsh nationalitv. Some had dc- THE COXTIXEXIAL COXGRLSS AT YORK. PA. 67. Liberty Bell on the Old Court House. Tliis old bell is now in the belfry of St. JohnsEpiscopal Church. See The Pennsylvania-German of January, 1903, pages 221 and 223. scended from Huguenot ancestors. Eightwere foreign-born. Duer and RobertMorris were English, Burke and JamesSmith were Irish, Witherspoon and Har-vie were Scotch, Lewis was a Welshmanand Roberdeau a West Indian. Lewiswas the oldest delegate, being 64 yearsold; Gouverneur Morris was the yoimg-cst, being 2^. The religious opinions and beliefs ofthe members were diverse. There wereCongregationalists with some leaning towhat was afterwards known as Unitari-anism. There was one Catholic amongthem, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, were also Episcopalians and Pres-byterians. The newer sects, oi course,were not then in existence. However, while at York the me
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