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William Drewet Smith

AKA: William Drew Smith
Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1700s
State:Pennsylvania
Time Imprisoned:
3 Months
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Biography

William Drewet Smith was a Philadelphia druggist. He was among those arrested in September 1777 and named in the exile records as ordered into the Virginia banishment of citizens suspected of disaffection to the American cause.

Case

Charges: Banished without trial to Winchester, Virginia (September 1777) as a "Virginia Exile".
Arrested: Sep 2, 1777
Incarcerated: Sep 2, 1777
Released: December 1777
Sentence: Banished about seven months to Winchester, Virginia; released in the spring of 1778.
Convicted: No