News Articles and Ephemera
| Title: | 1798 Insurrection in Merion Square |
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| Author: | Kramer, Ben |
| Source: | Main Line Times |
| Date: | 10/18/1979 |
| Folder/Item #: | Llewellyn Family; 10 |
| Notes: | |
| Abstract: | 1798 Sedition Act prompted Captain Morris Llewellyn and other patriots to raise a liberty pole at Youngsford and Righters Mill Road inscribed: DOWN WITH ALL TYRANTS! NO GAG LAWS! LIBERTY OR DEATH! A company pf Federal troops was dispatched to quell the up |