This old tavern, which exists still, we believe, a venerable relic
of the border past, was, in the year 1777, the abode of a "number of
Quakers, together with one druggist and a dancing-master, sent
to Winchester under guard, with a request from the Executive of
Pennsylvania, directed to the County-Lieutenant of Frederick, to
secure them." The reasons for this arrest and exile may be found in
a Congressional report upon the subject, (Anno. 1776,) which states,
that well-attested facts "rendered it certain and notorious that those
persons were, with much rancour and bitterness, disaffected to the
American cause;"--for which reason they were requested to go and
remain in durance at Winchester, in Virginia. How they protested at
Philadelphia against being taken into custody--protested again at the
Pennsylvania line against being carried out of that state--protested
again at the Maryland line against being taken into Virginia--and
ended by protesting at Winchester against everything in general--it is
all written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Valley of Virginia,
by Mr.
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