In his cramped quarters at Third and Pine in Philadelphia in 1797-98, Kosciuszko communed frequently with Jefferson, then the vice president. They were soon so close that Jefferson was soon calling Kosciuszko "as pure a son of liberty as I have ever known, and of that liberty which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone." When Kosciuszko penned his extraordinary will on April 20, 1798, he named Jefferson as both executor and beneficiary: "I authorize my friend Thomas Jefferson to employ the whole [of the estate] thereof in purchasing Negroes from among his own or any others and giving them liberty in my name." It was the Pole's last act on American soil, for shortly after he abruptly left, escaping what he believed was his imminent seizure as an agent of the French revolutionary government.