Poor Will's Pocket Almanack, for the Year 1777.
Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, [1776]. 12 leaves, interleaved with 12 blanks, 12mo (100 x 60 mm). Contemporary floral “wallpaper” wrappers. Provenance : Thomas Fisher (contemporary manuscript notations on the blanks). george washington slept here. Besides the usual annotations by Fisher (births and deaths, the weather, etc.), facing the August calendar page is evidence of a visit to the Logan family home by George Washington: “23. G. Washington at Stenton.” Washington made Stenton his temporary headquarter on that day, while en route to Chadds Ford, where he would lose the Battle of Brandywine on 11 September. Just days later, the almanac provides a primary account of Fisher’s imprisonment and exile to Virginia. In the late summer of 1777, with the British occupation of Philadelphia imminent, 19 well-known Quakers were arrested, jailed and exiled to Virginia on the suspicion that their pacifist beliefs would lead them to provide intelligence to the British. Fisher records, facing the September calendar page: “2d. Made prisoner at my own House & taken to the Lodge where I found some in the same situation” and “11th. Forc’d into a Waggon wth 19 of mr Frds” and “29. Reachd Winchester.” No other annotations are recorded in this almanac, suggesting that it was taken from him while imprisoned in Virginia. Evans 14649; Drake 10044.
Poor Will's Pocket Almanack, for the Year 1777.
Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, [1776]. 12 leaves, interleaved with 12 blanks, 12mo (100 x 60 mm). Contemporary floral “wallpaper” wrappers. Provenance : Thomas Fisher (contemporary manuscript notations on the blanks). george washington slept here. Besides the usual annotations by Fisher (births and deaths, the weather, etc.), facing the August calendar page is evidence of a visit to the Logan family home by George Washington: “23. G. Washington at Stenton.” Washington made Stenton his temporary headquarter on that day, while en route to Chadds Ford, where he would lose the Battle of Brandywine on 11 September. Just days later, the almanac provides a primary account of Fisher’s imprisonment and exile to Virginia. In the late summer of 1777, with the British occupation of Philadelphia imminent, 19 well-known Quakers were arrested, jailed and exiled to Virginia on the suspicion that their pacifist beliefs would lead them to provide intelligence to the British. Fisher records, facing the September calendar page: “2d. Made prisoner at my own House & taken to the Lodge where I found some in the same situation” and “11th. Forc’d into a Waggon wth 19 of mr Frds” and “29. Reachd Winchester.” No other annotations are recorded in this almanac, suggesting that it was taken from him while imprisoned in Virginia. Evans 14649; Drake 10044.
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