A remarkable circumstance:— This day, — about three, P. M., a girl,
brought up by my wife, named Polly ———, about twelve years old, went out to
slide or play, dressed as usual, without cap or bonnet, and did not return till
about nine o'clock next morning. All this space of time, she says that she was
in no house, nor near any fire, but sat between two logs all that night, in an
open lot, in Spruce-street (as she says) yet received nor took no cold,
although it was one of the coldest freezing nights this winter.
SOURCE: William Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of
Christopher Marshall, Kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the
American Revolution, Vol. 1, 1774-1777, pp. 13-4
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