The Women of The American Revolution, Vol. 1

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Letter, August 2d, 1775.

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Letter, October, 1775.

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Letter to Mrs. Lathrop, 1775.

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MS, Letter to Mrs. Warren, Dec, 36th, 1790,

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It is mentioned in Sanderson's Biography of the Signers of Independence, that the Whig ladies of Philadelphia having adopted the tory fashion of high head-dresses, after the evacuation of the city by the British, some Whigs dressed a negress in the full costume of a loyalist lady, took her to a place of resort, where the fashionables displayed their towering top-knots, seating her in a conspicuous place, – and afterwards paraded her through the city. Nothing, however, could stop the progress of the fashion, which for a season became general in America.