"I recollect about 20 years since that a number of Quaker friends were sent to Winchester by Government, for some cause which I never understood so well, not being in the Legislature, but in a Department, the employment of which afforded little time to enquire into the propriety or impropriety of your Banishment — but I well recolect you among others of the unfortunate — am sorry to observe that such misfortunes Generally take place on revolutions, and often very unjustly."
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Daniel Morgan, referring to imprisonments or banishments of some Quaker and Mennonite civilians which occurred early in the American Revolution, in a letter to Miles Fisher (11 January 1798), as published in The Historical Magazine Vol. II, No. 6 (June 1858), p. 165
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