19th – Very fine warm day, Wind, South, went to Town, din’d at S.Steretts
From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, February 19, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.
19th – Very fine warm day, Wind, South, went to Town, din’d at S.Steretts
From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, February 19, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.
February 19th
Captured the British government schooner Harriet Elizabeth, laden with coffee, etc. From Demerara to Barbadoes, ordered in. Island of Montserrat bearing e. n. e. distance 8 leagues. Captured the American schooner Ann Maria of Boston; she had been to Bermuda and sold a cargo of flour; had been captured by HBM brig Elipse, on her passage to St. Barts; took out the prize crew, consisting of 1 midshipman and 5 men, and burnt her.
From the journal of the Chasseur, excerpted in Baltimore American, June 2, 1814. Maryland Historical Society.