15 – Weather continues Hot, went to Town, return’d to Dinner & afterwards Rode to Col Ragans Camp ~
From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, August 15, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.
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on August 15th
These 24 hours commences with fresh Breezes and cloudy Weather. At 6 PM sounded, but got no Bottom, at midnight hove too.Middle and latter part same as first. At 6 AM filled away head. as p. Log.
From the Schooner Mammoth Logs, 1814. MS 3082, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Historical Society.
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