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.