** Went to the manufactory with my partner. At four, he and I went to the
State House, there being a meeting pursuant to public notice, which, by
computation, amounted to eight thousand, in order to consider the measures to
be pursued in the present critical affairs of America. * *
SOURCE: William Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of
Christopher Marshall, Kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the
American Revolution, Vol. 1, 1774-1777, p. 19
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