. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . adjourned session. It is not clear just when the FrankHn courts at Cham-bersburg were held, but the schedule seems to have been Car-lisle, Huntingdon, Bedford, Chambersburg and Lewis-town, except when work was too great at Carlisle. Atany rate, the courts at Carlisle were held the first Mondayin January, 1792, before Judge Smith and his associates,with no fewer than eighty-eight cases on the docket. Itwas plain that the Associate Justices at Huntingdon wouldhave to hold the court called for the
. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . adjourned session. It is not clear just when the FrankHn courts at Cham-bersburg were held, but the schedule seems to have been Car-lisle, Huntingdon, Bedford, Chambersburg and Lewis-town, except when work was too great at Carlisle. Atany rate, the courts at Carlisle were held the first Mondayin January, 1792, before Judge Smith and his associates,with no fewer than eighty-eight cases on the docket. Itwas plain that the Associate Justices at Huntingdon wouldhave to hold the court called for the third Monday in that ^ From an account of the affair by the Deputy States Attorneyin The Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys, Pennsylvania, Vol. I,p. 461. The introduction to the letter is inaccurate in stating thatthis occurred at the last court under the old order, or that JudgeSmith was soon after appointed President Judge. It was the firstterm under the new order, and Judge Smith had been appointed, ashas been seen, some time before this court met; but he did not meetwith them at this CoiRT House at Lewistovvnill which Thomas Sniilh sat as Judge A JUDGE iIN THE REORGANIZED JUDICIARY 217 month alone, and they did.^ Thomas Duncan had a tre-mendous practice at Carlisle, being actually engaged inforty-eight out of the eighty-eight cases. Hamilton camenext with twenty-eight, while Watts, Charles Smith, Dun-lop, Sample, Hubley, Fisher, Robert Duncan, McKeehan,Creigh, Riddle and Walker were also busy. On the fourth Monday in January he was in Bedford,holding court in the second story of the old stone build-ing. There were but fifteen cases before him and his asso-ciates, and these were divided pretty evenly betweenNagle, Cadwallader, Hamilton, Biddle and Woods. Onepeculiarity of the records of this court is that they appearto be in the hand of the Judge himself. Owing to thefact, says his latest resident successor, Hon. J. H. Longe-necker, that in the years of his term in t
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