William Smith

AKA: William Smith (broker)
Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1700s
State:Pennsylvania
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Biography

William Smith, a Philadelphia broker (so distinguished in the records from the other men of that common name), was one of the citizens arrested in September 1777 and banished with the "Virginia Exiles" to Winchester, Virginia.

Case

Charges: Banished without trial to Winchester, Virginia (September 1777) as a "Virginia Exile".
Incarcerated: September 1777
Released: April 1778
Sentence: Banished about seven months to Winchester, Virginia; released in the spring of 1778. Verdict as recorded: No — never charged or tried; interned by order of Congress and the Pennsylvania Council. Charges as recorded: Banished without trial to Winchester, Virginia (September 1777) as a "Virginia Exile" during the preventive detention of Philadelphians suspected of disaffection to the Revolutionary cause.
Convicted: No

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