A wet morning, cleared about 10 o'clock, A. M. Marched at 1 o'clock P. M., proceeded 12 miles towards Rappahannock, where we lay out without any kind of shelter—12 miles.
SOURCE: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Publisher, Journal of Lieut. William Feltman, of the First Pennsylvania Regiment, 1781-82, p. 4
Took up the line of march at sunrise. Reached the north branch of Rappahannock at 10 o'clock. The troops waded the river and proceeded 21 miles. Culpepper County.
SOURCE: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Publisher, Journal of Lieut. William Feltman, of the First Pennsylvania Regiment, 1781-82, p. 4
Took up the line of march at six o'clock A. M., crossed the south branch of Rappahannock and proceeded 6 miles into the country. The country very poor and buildings very small—14 miles.
SOURCE: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Publisher, Journal of Lieut. William Feltman, of the First Pennsylvania Regiment, 1781-82, p. 4
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
