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
