. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . lination goes along with it, & therefore Distance ofTime & Place shall never eradicate or in the least dimin-ish it. Give my love to my Dear Sister & be sure to tellher that she must lay aside all thoughts of coming toLondon, at least yet awhile & I absolutely insist thatshe do not come at all without my express consent. Ihope you know me better than to suppose that I wouldadvise her to anything but what I thought for her in the country have a little too extravagant notionsof London, f
. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . lination goes along with it, & therefore Distance ofTime & Place shall never eradicate or in the least dimin-ish it. Give my love to my Dear Sister & be sure to tellher that she must lay aside all thoughts of coming toLondon, at least yet awhile & I absolutely insist thatshe do not come at all without my express consent. Ihope you know me better than to suppose that I wouldadvise her to anything but what I thought for her in the country have a little too extravagant notionsof London, for you generally imagine that every one heremust be rich & proud; its very true many make theirfortunes here, but as far as I [can] judge, for one thatdoes so, there are ten miscarry, especially Women—whotherefore would run the risk [when] the chance is sogreat against them! Thomas Smith was now twenty-two years old, and ithad been five years since he left Scotland. He was fullyof age and evidently thinking of America. He never did * These indicate mutilation of College oi- Fhii ai)i;i,1hia(Afterwards University of Pennsylvania)West Side of Fourth Street, South of Arch. After ain possession of the Iniversity. HIS SCOTTISH ORIGIN li see his mother again, nor his native land, although hehad all preparations made for it many years later. Itwould be January, 1768, before his proposed four monthstrip out of London on business would be finished, andthen it is, we have reason to believe, that this earnest,tender-hearted son and brother, so appreciative of all thatwas high-minded and generous, soon bid his native landfarewell, and went forth, in a very real sense, to take partin the building up of the land of his adoption. II The America and Pennsylvania He Might Have Known in 1768 While Thomas Smith was living in London great eventswere taking place that were destined to have much to dowith his future. Scarcely had he been there a year beforean end of the bloody Seven Y
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