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A testimony given forth from our Yearly-Meeting, held at Philadelphia, for Pennsylvania and New-Jersey : by adjournments, from the 29th day of the Ninth Month to the 4th of the Tenth Month inclusive, 1777
Title:
A testimony given forth from our Yearly-Meeting, 1777
Description:
Urges release of Friends held without trial under charge of a "disposition inimical to the cause of America." In 1777, several prominent Philadelphia men were banished to Virginia by the Continental Congress under suspicion of "aiding and abetting the cause of the enemy." Thse "Virginia Exiles" included 18 Quakers. At end of text: Signed by order and on behalf of the Yearly-Meeting, by Isaac Jackson, Clerk. First line: A number of our Friends having been imprisoned and banished, unheard, from their families.. Copy 4
Date:
1777
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College