19 – Went to Town, on Duty as usual & kept watch all Night at Gen. Smiths, Din’d this day at P.Hoffmans~
From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, September 16, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.
Daily Archives: September 16, 2014
16th Sept. Went yesterday to Town, and remain’d all day & Night on duty at Gen. Smiths – the Enemy have all embark’d, & their vessels mov’d into the Bay, a part were this evening standing down the Bay ~
From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, September 13, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.
Sept. 16th
These 24 hours commences with fresh gales and squally, at 4 PM wove ship, at 15 minutes past 4 pitched away the Flying Jib Boom. Wove ship immediately to clear the wreck of the Boom, hove too, and saved the Jib. (uncl. Abbreviation)Middle part same as first.
Latter part same, watch employed in getting a F. Jib Boom out. At 12 got the Flying Jib Boom out & and sail bent and wove ship & made sail head. WNW.
From the Schooner Mammoth Logs, 1814. MS 3082, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Historical Society.
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