14 – Sunday – Hot day – Therm 84. No company all day, after Dinner rode to Mr. Steretts, & while there we had a very heavy Shower of Rain –
From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, August 14, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.
14 – Sunday – Hot day – Therm 84. No company all day, after Dinner rode to Mr. Steretts, & while there we had a very heavy Shower of Rain –
From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, August 14, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.
on August 14th
These 24 hours commences with moderate Breezes and cloudy Weather. At 7 PM unbent the Fore Topsail and bent a new one.Latter part moderate with a high sea, saw a Fleet of Transports, under convoy of Two Frigates; Hauled on the Wind.
So Ends. Watch employed in sundry jobs.
From the Schooner Mammoth Logs, 1814. MS 3082, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Historical Society.