26 – Sunday – Fine Warm day – Wind N. Rode to Town, and from thence with S. Sterett to Hampton, to Dinner ~
From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, June 26, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.
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June 26.
Made the Island of Porto Rico and was chased 7 hours by a Brig of War, when we lost sight of her.
From the journal of the Privateer Armed Schooner Lawrence, June 26, 1814. Maryland Historical Magazine, Volume 3, Number 2, June 1908, p. 171-176.
26th June
These 24 hours fresh gales and running weather, at 3 PM made the wreck of a vessel to windward, tacked ship and stood to them. At 4 PM got the boat out and boarded her. She was the sloop [Furmer?] of New York bound to Newport and had been captured by the Liverpool Packet , and had a Prize Master and [?] men on board besides. Mr. Charles Chipman with a wife and Eight children and Hanz Hanzun, a swede put on board of the sloop from a Swedish vessel the Liverpool packet has taken and a Mr. [L?] Delano, American. The sloop was taken in the night. And it blowing fresh. Mr. Chipman thought it best for himself and family to remain on board and go to and to get on to Eastport. At 5 PM left the sloop in a sinking condition. Ends moderate.
From the Schooner Mammoth Logs, 1814. MS 3082, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Historical Society.