28th Aug. Sunday – Was on duty at 1/2 past 4 O’Clock this morning, returned to Breakfast & din’d at Home alone, afterwards rode to Col Howards & Town ~
From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, August 28, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.
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August 28
These 24 hours commences with fresh gales and flying clouds- at 4 PM hove too. Nothing in sight. At 2 AM Bore up.Latter part fresh Breezes and a heavy sea. At 8 o’clock AM jibed ship and hove too.
Watch Employed doing ships duty.
From the Schooner Mammoth Logs, 1814. MS 3082, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Historical Society.