The Journal And Letters Of The Late Samuel Curwen, Judge Of Admiralty
Contributors: George Atkinson Ward (Editor)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780548042106
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; United States - Revolutionary War; History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800); History - U.S.
First sentence: Philadelphia, May 4, 1775. Since the late unhappy affairs at Concord and Lexington, finding the spirit of the people to rise on every fresh alarm, (which has been almost hourly,) and their tempers to get more and more soured and malevolent against all moderate men, whom they see fit to reproach as enemies of their country by the name of tories, among whom I am unhappily (although unjustly) ranked; and unable longer to bear their undeserved reproaches and menaces hourly denounced against myself and others, I think it a duty I owe myself to withdraw for a while from the storm which to my foreboding mind is approaching.