London, August 4, 1775.
I presume you little
expected to hear from a fellow sufferer in the cause of loyalty, a whole army
of whom are here lamenting their own and their country's unhappy fate. I heard
of your escape, and a circumstance connected with it that must render your
existence more tolerable, viz., that you were accompanied by your wife and
children, and I cordially rejoice in your and their deliverance from the evils
which attend our common friends in Salem, and elsewhere in New England. What
melancholy scenes they and we are to go through before this unnatural
controversy is ended, God only knows! — May you and I be prepared for the worst
events. If any of our common friends are in Halifax, be pleased to
remember me to them in the kindest manner. Our old friend Ben. Pickman desires
to be remembered to you.
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, pp. 34-5
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