mblies, Conventions, and Councils of Safety, and to the several
Commanding Officers of the Continental Troops, that it be proclaimed
in each of the United States, and at the Head of the Army.

By order of Congress.
sign'd, JOHN HANCOCK, Presid't.

Provision was also made for the reading in Philadelphia at 12 noon on
July 8, and letters were sent to Bucks, Chester, Northampton, Lancaster,
and Berks counties with copies of the Declaration to be posted on Monday
the 8th where elections for delegates were to be held. For some reason,
the frontier counties of Bedford, Cumberland, Westmoreland, York, and
Northumberland, contiguous to the Fair Play territory, were omitted from
these instructions.

[18] Turner, _The Frontier in American History_, pp. 1, 18.

[19] _The Journal of William Colbert_ gives frequent testimony to this
statement, as indicated in Chapter Five.

[20] _See_ the map in Chapter One for the geographic boundaries of the
Fair Play territory. Note the location of the top leaders, Henry and
Frederick Antes and Robert Fleming, in Chapter Six.

[21] The number of different office-holders runs to better than ten per
cent of the population.

[22] Turner, _The Frontier in American History_, pp. 333-334.

[23] _Ibid._, pp. 306-307.

[24] _Ibid._, p. 306.

[25] _Ibid._

[26] Meginness, _Otzinachson_ (1857), pp. 163-164.

[27] _See_ Chapter Seven for an evaluation of "Democracy on the
Pennsylvania Frontier."

[28] Turner, _The Frontier in American History_, p. 307.

[29] Richard Hofstadter, "The Myth of the Happy Yeoman," _American
Heritage_, VII, No. 3 (April, 1956), 43-53.

[30] The term "the personality of the law" is Turner's and emphasizes
the men who carried out the law, rather than its structure. The fact
that the ruling tribunal of the West Branch Valley was referred to as
the "Fair Play men" rather than the "tribunal" illustrates this
contention.

[31] Turner, _The Frontier in American History_, pp. 253-254.

[32] _See_ Chapter Three, n. 24.

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