he
next, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, and he refuseth to hearken to them,
and will not let the people go."[79] Nevertheless the poor were still
welcome to depart, and from time to time were even sent out in order to
relieve Gage of the necessity of feeding them.[80]

During this period a number of Tories came to Boston. These were the
families of men already in the town, or were others who felt that,
though until the present their homes had been safe for them, the future
was too doubtful. They hastened to put the British defences between them
and the Whigs. Among them the most notable was Lady Frankland of
Hopkinton, who once had been Agnes Surriage, the barefooted serving-maid
of the tavern at Marblehead. She now was a widow of nearly fifty, and
came down from Hopkinton only to be detained before the lines, and made
the subject of memoranda and petitions. The lieutenant who detained her
person was reprimanded, and by vote of the provincial congress she was
permitted to enter Boston with "seven trunks; all the beds with the
furniture to them; all the boxes and crates; a basket of chickens, and a
bag of corn; two barrels and a hamper; two horses and two chaises, and
all the articles in the chaise, excepting arms and ammunition; one
phaeton; some tongues, ham, and veal; and sundry small bundles."[81]
Evidently thinking that Lady Frankland's household was well enough
supplied, the congress did not allow to pass her seven wethers and two
pigs.

There were others who left their homes, though not to go to Boston. Of
these Judge Curwen of Salem is a type. He was considered--unjustly, he
protests--as a Tory, and finding his neighbors daily becoming "more and
more soured and malevolent against moderate men," he left Massachusetts.
In this case it was the wife who remained behind, "her apprehensions of
danger from an incensed soldiery, a people licentious and
enthusiastically mad and broken loose from all the restraints of law and
religion, being less terrible to her than a short passage on the
ocean."[82] Curwen went to Philadelphia, but finding the situation the
same, proceeded to London and there lived out the war. Many others, like
him, repaired to the capital, and formed a miserable colony, living on
hope, watching the news from home, pensioned or grudgingly maintained by
the government, and sadly feeling themselves strangers in a strange
land.

Without doubt the times were very hard for men who, like Judge Curwen,
wishe