Here gathered on July 27, 1791, a number of persons opposed to the law, when it was agreed that county committees should be convened in the four counties at the respective seats of justice.

Brackenridge, in his "Incidents of the Western Insurrection," says that Albert Gallatin was clerk of the meeting.

One of these committees met in the town of Washington on August 23, when violent resolutions were adopted.

Gallatin, engaged at Philadelphia, was not present at this assemblage, three of whose members were deputed to meet delegates from the counties of Westmoreland, Fayette, and Allegheny, at Pittsburgh, on the first Tuesday in September following, to agree upon an address to the legislature on the subject of excise and other grievances.

At the Pittsburgh meeting eleven delegates appeared for the four counties.