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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug5353, post: 2187906, member: 73555&quot;]Just for fun, I Googled one of the names (the second signature) on the OP&#039;s bill, Jacob Shoemaker, and found a brief bio:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Jacob Shoemaker, Jr. was a Quaker and an early member of the independence movement in Philadelphia. He signed the Non-Importation Resolution, which was a promise not to import British goods until the Stamp Act was lifted. He was also involved in the abolition movement, and was a member of the electing committee for <a href="http://digitalhistory.hsp.org/hsp/?PAS&amp;width=300&amp;height=300" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://digitalhistory.hsp.org/hsp/?PAS&amp;width=300&amp;height=300" rel="nofollow">Pennsylvania Abolition Society</a>. Shoemaker married Elizabeth Roberts in 1724, and acted as sheriff of Philadelphia between 1770 and 1772.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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