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22nd May – Sunday – Fine cool day Wind N.W. Took a ride on my new Horse Roderick, and I like him very much – S. Sterett, Jas. Sterett and H. Moore din’d with us, and F. Bowly, Eliza & Maria Peters drank Tea & Staid all Night ~

From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, May 22, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.

27th Sunday – Blustering cold day with Wind at N.W. & high. Rode to Fortune & Furley. Return’d to Dinner., at which Maria Peters ~D.A. Smith & Beckey Peters call’d in the forenoon & our particular Friend Col Wm. Fitzhugh arriv’d in the evening and staid all Night

From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, February 27, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.