To the president and Council of Pennsylvania. The remonstrance of the subscribers, freemen, and inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia, now confined in the Free-Mason's Lodge.
Subtitle: Sheweth, that the subscribers have been by virtue of a warrant signed in Council ... arrested in our houses ..
Contributors: Pemberton, James, 1723-1808.; Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 15500.
Publisher: Printed by Robert Bell, in Third-Street.
Published: 1777
Place of publication: [Philadelphia]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania.; Conscientious objectors -- Pennsylvania.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Conscientious objectors.
Other titles: Remonstrance of the subscribers, freemen, and inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia, now confined in the Free-Mason's Lodge.
Notes: Most of the subscribers were Quakers who, opposing the Revolution on religious grounds, were subjected to searches and seizures for having "evidenced a disposition inimical to the cause of America."  They were imprisoned first in Mason's Lodge, then later in Virginia, until April 1778.

Signed: James Pemberton, [and nineteen others]. Mason's Lodge, Philadelphia, September 5th, 1777.

Text in two columns.

Evans 15500.

Hildeburn, C.R.  Pennsylvania, 3644.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15500)