Nanjemoy, Maryland.
Early this morning weighed and stood over to Ladlor's Ferry in Maryland, where
we got breakfast at the Ferry house. After Breakfast got under way again, but
run the Boat aground on a sand bank in the River where we stuck two hours, but
by lashing the Canoe to the Masthead and filling her with stones, Heeld the
Vessel on one side and got her off. Arrived at Nanjemoy in the afternoon. Captn.
Knox's Brother has a House here, but he is not at home. He introduced me to his
Brother's partner, Mr. Bayley, who behaves very civilly to me and insists that
I shall stay a week with him. Don't intend staying any longer than I can get a
passage to Alexandria.
SOURCE: Nicholas
Cresswell, The Journal of Nicholas
Cresswell 1774—1777, p. 17
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