![]() ![]() Grayson addressed him and expressed his fears as to the consequences of attacking Mr. ![]() I introduced Colonel Grayson to Captain Faulkner, as a member of the Board of War. The colonel proposed that we should meet and persuade them to turn up Dock to Third Street, which we did attempt. The colonel asked me if I knew those in front of the armed men I answered I thought the leader was Captain Faulkner, a militia officer. I listened to the sound of the drum and fife, could distinctly hear the sound in Second Street, and in a few minutes observed the front of those in arms appeared in Walnut Street, moving up the street by this time the front of the mob was near Dock Street, in Walnut Street. Wilson and his friends at the City Tavern, but they were within pistol shot of the War Office. ![]() Wilson's house, would be massacred, as they were determined to defend themselves against the armed mob that had assembled on the Commons this morning and were moving down Second Street, expecting to find Mr. I went to him, and he told me he was glad I had not left the city, for that he had great apprehensions that several of our most respectable citizens, then assembled at Mr. I was standing on the front steps of my house in Walnut Street and observed Colonel Grayson beckoning to me from the door of the War Office. ![]() Allen McLane's Account of the Attack on "Fort Wilson," in 1779 ![]()
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