“23rd Sunday – Cloud day and mild, Wind S – Rode to Town & went to Church, afterward accompanied Gen. Ridgely & R. Patterson to D.A. Smiths to Dinner, came home early, having an appearance of Rain ~
From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, January 23, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.“
Those mentioned in the journal entry: Gen. Ridgely was Charles Carnan Ridgely of Hampton; R. Patterson was Robert Patterson s/o William Patterson and member of Capt. Henry Tompson’s troop First Baltimore Horse Artillery; and D.A. Smith was Dennis A. Smith a Baltimore banker. All were life long friends and business associates of Henry Thompson.