11th – Rain’d all Night with very high Wind at S.E. and the highest Tide in Town, I ever remember ~ Went to Town, return’d to Dinner and had the following company ~ Jn. Allen, Powell, Sheppard, Koning, Robt & Jo. Patterson, S. Sterett, OBrien, Wichelhausen, L. Goodwin, J. Hollingsworth, C & P. Wirgman
From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, May 11, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.