The Friend in Philadelphia in the Late 17 Seventies Does Not Respond Well

A follower of the society of universal friends is staying with a local philadelphian woman named sarah wilson, who dies in her sleep or has a bad dream. The papers blame the the friend follower who is in the home. And then, through a game of telephone, they start to say, oh, yes, this was the public, universal, the public universaly friend killed that woman. Tause: Caused by a religious crisis coupled with the beginning of the american revolution.