Middle Bush. Accounts received this afternoon that Washington with the rebel Army had fled to Corryall's Ferry in order to cross to the River Delaware leaving behind to amuse us, General Sullivan and 2000 men. Escort to and from Brunswick. 3 deserters but ill informed. Tis supposed by us that the Rebel Army is still posted on the Shannock Hills.
SOURCE: G. D. Scull, Editor, The Montresor Journals, p. 422
Dined with Stephen Collins; passed the evening at Joseph
Reed's,1 in company with Col. WASHINGTON, (a fine figure and of a
most easy and agreeable address,) Richard Henry Lee, and Col. Harrison, three
of the Virginia delegates. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Reed, were Mrs. Deberdt,2
Dr. Shippen, and Thomas Smith. I staid till twelve o'clock, the conversation
being chiefly on the most feasible and prudent method of stopping up the
channel of the Delaware to prevent the coming up of any large ships to the
city; I could not perceive the least disposition to accommodate matters.
1 In July, 1774, this gentleman directed his correspondent at Boston, to pay £10 to the committee for the relief of sufferers by the Boston Port Bill.
2 The mother of Mrs. Reed and widow of the Massachusetts Assembly agent to the British government.
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. 27-8
Spoke Capt. Waterman in a schooner from Nantucket, who brought me a letter from Nathan Goodale, stating that his family, Mr. Pynchon's, and Mr. Orne's, had arrived there, to which I replied.
TO NATHAN GOODALE, ESQ.
In the Delaware, May 16, 1775.
DEAR SIR:
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.
Yours truly,
SAML. CURWEN.
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. 29
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
