20 – Still Hot, went to Town, din’d at S. Steretts, exercis’d Artillery in the evg.
From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, August 20, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.
20 – Still Hot, went to Town, din’d at S. Steretts, exercis’d Artillery in the evg.
From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, August 20, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.
August 20
These 24 hours commences. Light winds and clear weather. Laying too repairing sails. At 9 PM made sail.Middle and Latter part fresh Gales and a crop sea, with light rains and thick foggy weather. At 7 AM saw the Barke, our prize to Leeward. Split the Jib, took it in to repair it.
So ends.
From the Schooner Mammoth Logs, 1814. MS 3082, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Historical Society.