You can scarce conceive my joy at hearing that my
neighbours, suffering in the same cause as myself, and for whom I sincerely
profess a friendship, were in a secure retreat. Continue there by all means,
safe from the alarms and dangers you have fled from.
Philadelphia is wholly American, strong friends to
congressional measures; at least, no man is hardy enough to express a doubt of
the feasibility of their projects. Mr. Joseph Lee leads a recluse life there.
The inhabitants are displeased that the New Englanders make it their city of
refuge. The new established post (instead of the old eastern one which is
stopped,) admits no letters to pass but those franked; the contents of which
must be known to one of the committee to be entitled to that benefit.
SOURCE: George Atkinson Ward, Journal and Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen, Judge of Admiralty, etc., An American Refugee in England from 1775 to 1784, p. 29
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