To the president and Council of Pennsylvania. The remonstrance of the subscribers, freemen, and inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia, now confined in the Free-Mason's Lodge Sheweth, that the subscribers have been by virtue of a warrant signed in Council ... arrested in our houses (Printed by Robert Bell, in Third-Street, 1777)
Evans, 15500. - Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3644. - Most of the subscribers were Quakers who, opposing the Revolution on religious grounds, were subjected to searches and seizures for having "evidenced a disposition inimical to the cause of America." They were imprisoned first in Mason's Lodge, then later in Virginia, until April 1778. - Signed: James Pemberton, [and nineteen others]. Mason's Lodge, Philadelphia, September 5th, 1777. - Text in two columns