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Spencer, Henry.

Scott, J. H., died at Monterey, Va., in service, in 1861. Thornton, W. D.

Thompkins, C. C, from Kanawha county, W. Va. Thompson, James C. Watkins, Charles W.

Watkins, Henry, killed at Bunker Hill, 1864. Watkins, Frank B. Williams, W. B. Wood, Robert W. Walker, William A. Wood, Jas. E.

Walker, Alexander S., from Augusta county. Wounded near Brownsburg, Rockbridge county, Va. Wilson, James H. Watkins, Henry N. Wills, William B. Watkins, W. B.

Woods, William H., wounded at Williamsport, July, 1863. Watkins, Alfred. West, Addison, from Halifax county, Va.

THE PIONEER OF SECESSION.

The First Advocate of States Rights in the Continental

Congress.

THOMAS BURKE, of North Carolina, in 1777.

At a meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Society held in Phila- delphia, on the evening of March 9, 1897, Dr. Herbert Friedenwald delivered an address, in which he gave an account of some newly- discovered information respecting transactions of the Continental Congress. The speaker explained that the material upon which his address was based had been secured from abstracts of debates and letters written by Benjamin Rush and Thomas Burke, of North Carolina. The notes of debates taken by the former had much to say about the relations that had existed between Congress and the individual States, as well as the methods of electing the officers of