29th – Fine warm day, went to Town, din’d at Mr. S. Hollingsworths, and afterwards exercis’d my Men, untill Dark, had a good Muster
From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, August 29, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.
Daily Archives: August 29, 2014
August 29th
The first part of these 24 hours fresh gales and a rough sea. Watch employed doing ships duty.Middle part same as first. Watch Employed in same as first.
Latter part same. Still laying too.
From the Schooner Mammoth Logs, 1814. MS 3082, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Historical Society.