Second day. The
first thing I heard this morning was that Lord Cornwallis had surrendered to
the French and Americans—intelligence as surprizing as vexatious. People who
are so stupidly regardless of their own interests are undeserving of
compassion, but one cannot help lamenting that the fate of so many worthy
persons should be connected with the failure or success of the British
army. Uncle Howell1 came in soon after breakfast, and tho' he is
neither Whig nor Tory, looked as if he had sat up all night; he was glad to see
all here so cheerful, he said. When he was gone Ben Shoemaker2
arrived; he was told it as he came along, and was astonished. However, as there
is no letter from Washington, we flatter ourselves that it is not true.
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1 Joshua Howell, who had married Mrs. Samuel
Shoemaker's sister Catharine, daughter of Edward and Anna (Coleman) Warner.
2 Benjamin Shoemaker, son of Samuel Shoemaker
by his first wife Hannah, daughter of Samuel Carpenter the second, by his wife
Hannah, daughter of Samuel Preston. Benjamin Shoemaker married Mrs. Samuel
Shoemaker's sister, Elizabeth Warner.
SOURCE: “A
Loyalist's Account of Certain Occurrences in Philadelphia After Cornwallis's
Surrender at Yorktown. Extracted from the Diary of Miss Anna Rawle.” The
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Publisher, Pennsylvania Magazine of
History and Biography, Vol. 16, 1892 No. 1, p. 104
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