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 ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 15500
Publisher: Printed by Robert Bell, in Third-Street.
Published: 1777
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Society of Friends; Conscientious objectors; History
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.

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Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3644