Anonymous to Thomas Jefferson, 28 January 1805
From Anonymous
Lancaster, Jan 28, 1805
The following is the State of the Votes in the case of the Judges—Guilty or not guilty—
| Ayes— | Mesrs | Hart | Noes— Messrs | Brady Quid | |
| G. | Heister | Gamble Quid | |||
| Hartzell | Harris | ||||
| Morton. | (Son a Prothonotary | John Heister | |||
| Montgomery | looking for Comptrollers office | John Kean | |||
| M’Arthur | P. C. Lane | ||||
| Steele | Mewhorter | ||||
| Spangler | Dr. | Pennell | |||
| Reed | Heston | ||||
| Dr. G. | Porter | (brother of Jacob) | Mayer | ||
| Piper | (British Treaty— | Richards—11 | |||
| Vance | |||||
| R. | Whitehill. Speaker 13 |
Two thirds being necessary to condemnation—they were acquitted—One Member (Poe a republican) absent
RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as an anonymous letter received 1 Feb. and “votes on impeachmts. judges” and so recorded in SJL.
case of the Judges: on 28 Jan., the Pennsylvania Senate acquitted state supreme court judges Edward Shippen, Thomas Smith, and Jasper Yeates of charges arising from their use of the common law of contempts in a case that intensified political divisions in the state (Andrew Shankman, “Malcontents and Tertium Quids: The Battle to Define Democracy in Jeffersonian Philadelphia,” Journal of the Early Republic, 19 [1999], 52-3).