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Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, Tuesday, May 17, 1774

Urbanna, Rappahannock River, Virginia. Contrary wind. Our Ship at Anchor. Captn. Parry, Captn. Knox, Messrs. Baldwin, and I went ashore in the Pilot Boat. Landed at this place after a passage of thirty-eight days from Liverpool. This is a small Village pleasantly situated on a Creek of the same name; the Custom House for the Rappahannock River, and Tobacco warehouses for the County are kept here. Messrs. Baldwin went to the house of a Merchant whom they had Letters of introduction to, Knox and I stayed at the Inn.

SOURCE: Nicholas Cresswell, The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell 1774—1777, p. 16

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