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He was also a signatory of the 1790 Pennsylvania Constitution. After my uncle"s return, he purchased a place in Frankford of Mr. Drinker. The house was pleasantly situated at some distance from the street, but the beauty of the place consisted in the lovely view presented from the summer-house, of the pastures, streams, bridges, mills, the village, numberless roads winding through tall trees, luxuriant shade, and rising above all other objects, was seen Christ Church steeple, five miles distant.
He looked round and said: This is the spot on which the signers of the Declaration of Independence dined the day they signed the Declaration.
