. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . it-tenhouse, the astronomer, and Colonel Bull. Immediatelyfollowing this, Colonel Smith was also made the secondmember of a committee to confer with the Virginia delegateson the boundary question, the other members being , Mr. Alexander Lowrey, of Lancaster; ,of Philadelphia, and Colonel James Potter, of North-umberland. On the 23d, when the matter of deahng withnon-Associators came up, Colonel Smith was placed on acommittee to declare what should be high treason and mis-
. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . it-tenhouse, the astronomer, and Colonel Bull. Immediatelyfollowing this, Colonel Smith was also made the secondmember of a committee to confer with the Virginia delegateson the boundary question, the other members being , Mr. Alexander Lowrey, of Lancaster; ,of Philadelphia, and Colonel James Potter, of North-umberland. On the 23d, when the matter of deahng withnon-Associators came up, Colonel Smith was placed on acommittee to declare what should be high treason and mis-prision of treason, with Colonel Ross, Colonel James Smith,Messrs. Biddle, Hoge, Clymer and Rittenhouse. To this ^ Professor Cannon was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in came to America, and in 1764 entered the Academy of Philadel-phia and matriculated in the college in 1767. He became Professorof Mathematics in 1773 and served until his death, January 28, was the author of the letters signed Cassandra, and became amember of the Council of Safety of Pennsylvania at this THE NEW GOVERNMENT 73 committee, also, was assigned the treatment of counter-feiting and decision of what moneys should be legal tender. On July 24 an important resolution was passed, whichassigned the Committee on the Declaration of Rights, ofwhich Colonel Smith was a member, the duty of also draw-ing up a frame or system of government for this placed Colonel Smith on nearly all of the most im-portant committees of the Convention. On the next day,however, after the Declaration of Independence had beenratified, the Committee on Declaration of Rights had re-ported, and the Committee on Treason had been asked tofurther amend their report, a very significant addition wasmade to the Committee on Frame of Government orConstitution, in the persons of Colonel Matlack, ProfessorCannon, Colonel Potter, Mr. Rittenhouse, Mr. RobertWhitehill, of Cumberland, and Colonel Bartram Galbraith
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