Journal of Sally Wister, October 27, 1777

Morn[ing].  A polite "Good morning" from the M—, more sociable than ever. No wonder; a stoic cou'd not resist such affable damsels as we are.

Eve[ning].  We had again the pleasure of the Gen'l and suite at afternoon tea. He (the Gen'l, I mean) is most agreeable; so lively, so free, and chats so gaily, that I have quite an esteem for him. I must steel my heart! Capt. Furnival is gone to Baltimore, the residence of his belov'd wife.

The Major and I had a little chat to ourselves this eve. No harm, I assure thee: he and I are friends.

This eve came a parson belonging to the Army. He is (how shall I describe him?) near seven foot high, thin and meagre, not a single personal charm, and very few mental ones. He fell violently in love with Liddy at first sight; the first discover'd conquest that has been made since the arrival of the Gen'l.

Come, shall we chat about Col. Guest? He's very pretty; a charming person; his eyes are exceptional; very stern; and he so rolls them about that mine always fall under them. He bears the character of a brave officer; another admirer of Liddy's, and she is of him.

When will Sally's admirers appear? Ah! that indeed. Why, Sally has not charms sufficient to pierce the heart of a soldier. But still I won't despair. Who knows what mischief I yet may do?

Well, Debby, here's Dr. Edwards come again. Now we shall not want clack; for he has a perpetual motion in his head, and if he was not so clever as he is, we shou'd get tired.

SOURCE: Albert Cook Myers, Editor, Sally Wister's Journal A True Narrative Being A Quaker Maiden's Account Of Her Experiences With Officers Of The Continental Army, 1777-1778, pp. 94-6

Journal of Sally Wister, October 21, 1777

I just now met the Major, very reserv'd; nothing but "Good morning," or "Your servant, madam"; but Furnival is most agreeable; he chats every opportunity; but luckily has a wife!

I have heard strange things of the Major. Worth a fortune of thirty thousand pounds, independent of anybody; the Major, moreover, is vastly bashful; so much so he can hardly look at the ladies. (Excuse me, good sir; I really thought you were not clever; if 'tis bashfulness only, we will drive that away.)

Fifth-day, Sixth-day, and Seventh day pass'd. The Gen'l still here; the Major still bashful.

SOURCE: Albert Cook Myers, Editor, Sally Wister's Journal A True Narrative Being A Quaker Maiden's Account Of Her Experiences With Officers Of The Continental Army, 1777-1778, pp. 87-9

Journal of Sally Wister, October 25, 1777

Prepare to hear amazing things. The Gen'l was invited to dine, was engag'd; but Col. Wood and Line, Majr Stodard, and Dr. Edwards din'd with us.

In the afternoon, Stodard, addressing himself to mamma, "Pray, ma'am, do you know Miss Nancy Bond¹?" I told him of the amiable girl's death. This major had been to Philada College.²

In the evening, I was diverting Johnny³ at the table, when he drew his chair to it, and began to play with the child. I ask'd him if he knew N. Bond. "No, ma'am, but I have seen her very often." One word brought on another, and we chatted the greatest part of the evening.

He said he knew me directly he saw me. Told me exactly where we liv'd. It rains now, so adieu.

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¹ NANCY BOND.—“On Monday morning [September 9, 1776] died, and yesterday was interred in Christ-Church Burying-ground, Miss Nancy Bond, second daughter of Dr. Phineas Bond, deceased. She had just compleated her 19th year, and possessed so many amiable qualities, both natural and acquired, that she was truly dear to all her acquaintance, and peculiarly the delight of her nearest relatives in her private and domestic life."—Pennsylvania Gazette, September 18, 1776.

² Now the University of Pennsylvania.

³ JOHN WISTER, Sally's infant brother, was born March 20, 1776, and died December 12, 1862. He was married in 1798 to Elizabeth Harvey, of Bordentown, New Jersey, and resided at his seat "Vernon," in Germantown. —Wister, "Memoir of Charles J. Wister"; Glenn, "Merion," 277.

SOURCE: Albert Cook Myers, Editor, Sally Wister's Journal A True Narrative Being A Quaker Maiden's Account Of Her Experiences With Officers Of The Continental Army, 1777-1778, pp. 89-91

Journal of Sally Wister, October 26, 1777

A very rainy morning, so like to prove. The officers in the house all day.

[Afternoon.] The General and officers drank tea with us, and stay'd part of the evening. After supper I went into aunt's where sat the Gen'l, Col. Line, and Major Stodard. So Liddy and I seated ourselves at the table in order to read a verse-book.

The Major was holding a candle for the Gen'l, who was reading a newspaper. He look'd at us, turn'd away his eyes, look'd again, put the candlestick down, up he jump'd, out of the door he went. "Well," said I to Liddy, " he will joinus when he comes in."

Presently he return'd, and seated himself on the table.

"Pray, ladies, is there any songs in that book?"

"Yes, many."

"Can't you fav^r me with a sight of it?"

"No, Major, 'tis a borrow'd book."

"Miss Sally, can't you sing?"

"No."

Thee may be sure I told the truth there. Liddy, saucy girl, told him I cou'd. He beg'd and I deny'd; for my voice is not much better than the voice of a raven. We talk'd and laugh'd for an hour. He is very clever, amiable, and polite. He has the softest voice, never pronounces the R at all.

I must tell thee, to-day arriv'd Col. Guest¹ and Major Letherberry; the former a smart widower, the latter lawyer, a sensible young fellow, and will never swing for want of tongue.

Dr. Diggs² came Second-day; a mighty disagreeable man. We were oblig'd to ask him to tea. He must needs prop himself between the Major and me, for which I did not thank him. After I had drank tea, I jump'd from the table, and seated myself at the fire. The M——— followed my example, drew his chair close to mine, and entertain'd me very agreeably.

Oh, Debby; I have a thousand things to tell thee. I shall give thee so droll an account of my adventures that thee will smile. "No occasion of that, Sally," methinks I hear thee say, "for thee tells me every trifle." But, child, thee is mistaken, for I have not told thee half the civil things that are said of us sweet creatures at "General Smallwood's Quarters." I think I might have sent the gentlemen to their chambers. I made my adieus, and home I went.

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¹ MORDECAI GIST, son of Captain Thomas and Susan (Cockey) Gist, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1748. He was educated at St. Paul's Parish School, Baltimore County, and at the outbreak of the Revolution was a merchant doing business on Gay Street. At the beginning of the War the young men of Baltimore formed the Baltimore Independent Company, and in July, 1776, elected Gist Captain. He had command of this company until January 14, 1776, when he was appointed Major of a battalion in Smallwood's Maryland Regiment. December 10, 1776, he was made Colonel of the Third Maryland Regiment. In January, 1779, Congress appointed him a Brigadier-General in the Continental Army, and he took command of the Second Maryland Brigade and served to the close of the War. After the Revolution he resided upon a plantation near Charleston, South Carolina, in which city he died, September 12, 1792, and was buried in Old St. Michael's churchyard.

² This is doubtless COLE DIGGS, of King William County, Virginia (son of William Diggs, of Denbigh), who became Cornet of the First Regiment of Virginia Light Dragoons, December 6, 1776, and Lieutenant, April 7, 1778. He resigned May 4, 1778. Bland MSS., Cong. Lib., Wash.; MSS. of the Revolution, State Lib., Richmond, Va.; Va. Cal. State Papers, VIII., 164; Heitman; William and Mary Quart., I., 19.

SOURCE: Albert Cook Myers, Editor, Sally Wister's Journal A True Narrative Being A Quaker Maiden's Account Of Her Experiences With Officers Of The Continental Army, 1777-1778, pp. 91-4

Journal of Sally Wister, October 20, 1777

Third Day Morn., October 20th.

I dare say thee is impatient to know my sentiments of the officers; so, while Somnus embraces them, and the house is still, take their characters according to their rank.

The General is tall, portly, well made: a truly martial air, the behaviour and manner of a gentleman, a good understanding, & great humanity of disposition, constitute the character of Smallwood.

Col. Wood,¹ from what we hear of him and what we see, is one of the most amiable of men; tall and genteel, an agreeable countenance and deportment. These following lines will more fully characterize him:

"How skill'd he is in each obliging art,

The mildest manners with the bravest heart."

The cause he is fighting for alone tears [sic] him from the society of an amiable wife and engaging daughter; with tears in his eyes he often mentions the sweets of domestic life.

Col. Line² is not married; so let me not be too warm in his praise, lest you suspect. He is monstrous tall & brown, but has a certain something in his face and conversation very agreeable; he entertains the highest notions of honour, is sensible and humane, and a brave officer; he is only seven and twenty years old, but, by a long indisposition and constant fatigue, looks vastly older, and almost worn to a skeleton, but very lively and talkative.

Capt. Furnival,³—I need not say more of him than that he has, excepting one or two, the handsomest face I ever saw, a very fine person; fine light hair and a great deal of it, adds to the beauty of his face.

Well, here comes the glory, the Major, so bashful, so famous, &c. He shou'd come before the Captain, but never mind. I at first thought the Major cross and proud, but I was mistaken. He is about nineteen, nephew to the Gen'l, and acts as Major of brigade to him; he cannot be extoll'd for the graces of person, but for those of the mind he may justly be celebrated; he is large in his person, manly, and an engaging countenance and address.⁴

Finley is wretched ugly, but he went away last night, so shall not particularize him.

Nothing of any moment to-day; acquaintance with the officers. Col. Wood and Line and Gould din'd with us. I was dressed in my chintz, and look'd smarter than night before.

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¹ JAMES WOOD, born in 1750, was a son of Colonel James Wood, founder of Winchester, Virginia. In 1774 the son was commissioned by Lord Dunmore a Captain of Virginia troops, and in 1775 he was elected to the House of Burgesses from Frederick County, Virginia. In 1776 he was appointed by the House of Burgesses to serve as Colonel of the Twelfth, afterward called the Eighth, Regiment of the Virginia Line, and served until January 1, 1783. In 1783 he was commissioned a Brigadier-General. He was elected Governor of Virginia in 1796. He died at Olney, near Richmond, Virginia, July 16, 1813.-Heitman; Appleton's "Cyc. of Biog."

² GEORGE LYNE, of King and Queen County, Virginia, represented his county in the Virginia Assembly in 1775. He received the appointment of Captain of the Virginia State Forces, March 8, 1776; Major of the Thirteenth Virginia Regiment, November 12, of the same year; Lieutenant-Colonel of the Ninth Virginia Regiment, September 28, 1777. He resigned from the Army November 14, 1777, and entered the Virginia House of Burgesses, where he continued until 1780. He also served as a member of the Board of War. - Heitman; Journal House of Delegates, Virginia, 1833, Doc. No. 31; Stanard, Virginia Register, 199.

³ ALEXANDER FURNIVAL, of Baltimore, Maryland, born about 1752, was made Second Lieutenant of Smith's Independent Company of Maryland Artillery, January 14, 1776. Later he was raised to the rank of Captain. He retired from the Army in July, 1779. In 1793 he was Postmaster of Baltimore. He died September 14, 1807, at Harmony, Baltimore County, Maryland, in his 55th year; "for many years a respectable inhabitant of this city." Federal Gazette and Baltimore Advertiser, Sept. 17, 1807; Heitman; Maryland Journal, November 25, 1793.

⁴ WILLIAM TRUMAN STODDERT, son of John Truman and Lucy Heabard (Smallwood) Stoddert, was born in 1759, probably on his father's part of the plantation of "Southampton Enlarged," on Pomunkey Creek, Charles County, Maryland. His great-grandfather, James Stoddert, a wealthy planter of "Southampton,' Prince George County, who is said to have emigrated from Scotland to Maryland in the latter part of the seventeenth century, made his will (Upper Marlboro, Md., Liber 1, page 153) March 29, 1726 (Probated May 31, 1726), leaving to his son John Stoddert a plantation on Smith's Point.

John Stoddert, born in 1704, and died October 20, 1730, aged 42 years, was married prior to 1730 to Marianna Truman Greenfield, daughter of Thomas Truman Greenfield, of Trent Hall, St. Mary's County, Maryland, by his wife Susanna Cheseldine, daughter of Kenelm Cheseldine and his wife Mary Gerard, daughter of Thomas Gerard, of the noble family of Bromley. Thomas Truman Greenfield was a son of Thomas Greenfield, of Prince George County (a native, as he states in his will, dated 1715, of Gedling, England), by his wife Martha Truman.

John Stoddert, of Charles County, died May 12, 1767, aged 63 years, rich in lands and negroes. In his will (La Plata, Md A. D. 5, page 364), dated May 6 and probated May 18, 1767, he directs that he be buried beside his deceased wife, "in my own burying Ground without the least shew of pomp or Grandeure more than the presence of a few of my neighbours decently attending my Corpse to its place of Interement and their witnessing its being covered with Clay, a Glass of wine may be asked them to Drink without any other Expence. This also my Desire that none of my Children put themselves into a mourning Dress for my Deathe." He leaves to his grandson, William Truman Stoddert, son of his deceased son, John Truman Stoddert, one half of plantation "I now live on," called "South Hampton Enlarged," 500 acres of which "I posse^d his father John Truman Stoddert with but never Confirmed to him."

John Truman Stoddert, son of John and Marianna Stoddert, and first cousin of Benjamin Stoddert, first Secretary of the Navy, was born July 18, 1732 (Register of St. John's Parish, Prince George County). His wife was Lucy Heabard Smallwood, daughter of Bayne and Priscilla (Heabard) Smallwood, and sister of General William Smallwood of the Revolutionary War. She made her will (La Plata, Md., A. E. 6, page 35), November 2, 1767 (Probated October 22, 1768), and bequeathed her estate to her only child, William Truman Stoddert, appointing her father, Bayne Smallwood, executor. She mentions her sisters, Eleanor and Priscilla Smallwood, Elizabeth Leiper, and Margaret Stoddert.

William Truman Stoddert, thus left an orphan at the age of nine years, was probably brought up in the family of his grandfather, Bayne Smallwood. He attended Philadelphia College, now the University of Pennsylvania, but did not remain to complete the course, leaving the institution in 1776, at the age of seventeen as his son states, to enter the ranks of the patriot army. He received the appointment of Ensign of the Fifth Maryland Regiment, December 10, 1776. From the early summer of 1777 to May, 1779, although not regularly appointed by the State, he acted as Major of Brigade to his uncle, General William Smallwood, participating in the principal battles of the period. In May, 1779, in the re-arrangement of the Maryland Line, Major Stoddert was regularly appointed First Lieutenant of the Fifth Regiment, General Washington, in a letter dated May 28, 1779, to Governor Johnson of Maryland, stating that "Mr. Stoddert for near Two years [has acted] as a Brigade Major to General Smallwood." (Md. Archives, XXI., 430, 468, 469.)

Under date of January 4, 1780, Sally Wister notes that "the worthy Stodard is much indisposed at his home in " Maryland.

On January 1, 1781, he was transferred to the Fourth Maryland Regiment, in which he served until his retirement, January 1, 1783. (Ibid., XVIII., 522; Heitman.)

He was married to Sally Massey, daughter of Rev. Lee Massey, of Fairfax County, Virginia, for many years minister at General Washington's place of worship, Pohick Church, near Mount Vernon, and lived the life of a well-to-do Maryland planter on his estate called "Simpson" at Smith's Point, on the Potomac, in Charles County. His fondness for the hunt is attested by a curious relic that has descended to his great-grandson, Mr. Gustavus Truman Brown, of Washington, D. C. This is an old hunting horn, encircled by silver bands, one of which bears the legend:

 “Major Willim T. Stoddert Durba Hunt from his friend Wal Stone."

The registers of Durham Parish show that he was an active member of the vestry, and from 1787 until the time of his death made annual contributions of tobacco for the support of the church. In 1791 the amount of his subscription was £3 78. 6d., his estimated crop of tobacco being 1000 pounds, which was exceeded in the parish only by that of his uncle General Smallwood, who had a crop of 3000 pounds. On April 25, 1791, Major William T. Stoddert, General William Smallwood, and several other gentlemen, were appointed to act in the place of vestrymen to raise a subscription to repair the church and build a vestry house. The last reference to Major Stoddert in the registers is on June 3, 1793, when report is made that a subscription had been received from him.

He died in 1793, his son records, "at the age of 34 from disease caused by the hardships of camp life," and was interred on his plantation of "Simpson." In his will (La Plata, Md., A. K. 11, p. 173), dated April 5, 1789, probated August 17, 1793, in which he states that he is "sick and weake in body," he leaves "my dwelling plantation commonly known by the name of Simpson lying on Potomack River at Smith's Point in Nanjemoy," one moiety of land called "Southampton Enlarged," and all other real and personal estate, in fee simple, to his wife, Sally Stoddert, whom he makes his executor. His inventory, dated October 24, 1793, shows that he owned thirty-two slaves, of which seventeen were at "Smith's Point" and fifteen at "Pomunkey Quarter."

His only child, Major John Truman Stoddert, who was educated at Princeton and represented Maryland in Congress, lived at "Wicomico House," on the estate of West Hatton, Charles County, where he died July 19, 1870, leaving several children, of whom one is Mrs. Elizabeth Stoddert Bowie, the present possessor of West Hatton, and widow of Robert Bowie, son of Governor Bowie, of Maryland.

SOURCE: Albert Cook Myers, Editor, Sally Wister's Journal A True Narrative Being A Quaker Maiden's Account Of Her Experiences With Officers Of The Continental Army, 1777-1778, pp. 81-9

Journal of Sally Wister, October 19, 1777

Here, my dear, passes an interval of several weeks, in which nothing happen'd worth the time and paper it wou'd take to write it.¹ The English, however, in the interim, had taken possession of the city.

Second Day, October the 19th, 1777.

Now for new and uncommon scenes. As I was lying in bed, and ruminating on past and present events, and thinking how happy I shou'd be if I cou'd see you, Liddy came running into the room, and said there was the greatest drumming, fifing, and rattling of waggons that ever she had heard. What to make of this we were at a loss.  We dress'd and down stairs in a hurry. Our wonder ceas'd.

The British had left Germantown, and our Army was marching to take possession. It was the general opinion that they wou'd evacuate the capital.² Sister Betsy³ and myself, and G. E.⁴ went about half a mile from home, where we cou'd see the army pass. Thee will stare at my going, but no impropriety in my opine, or I wou'd not have gone. We made no great stay, but return'd with excellent appetites for our breakfast.

Several officers call'd to get some refreshment, but none of consequence till the afternoon. Cousin Prissa⁵ and myself were sitting at the door; I in a green skirt, dark short gown, &c. Two genteel men of the military order rode up to the door: "Your servant, ladies," &c; ask'd if they cou'd have quarters for Genl. Smallwood. Aunt Foulke thought she cou'd accommodate them as well as most of her neighbours, - said they could. One of the officers dismounted, and wrote

SMALLWOOD'S QUARTERS

over the door, which secured us from straggling soldiers. After this he mounted his steed and rode away.

When we were alone our dress and lips were put in order for conquest, and the hopes of adventures gave brightness to each before passive countenance.

Thee must be told of a Dr. Gould,⁶ who, by accident, had made an acquaintance with my father, — a sensible, conversible man, a Carolinian, — and had come to bid us adieu on his going to that state. Daddy had prevailed upon him to stay a day or two with us.

In the evening his Generalship⁷ came with six attendants, which compos'd his family, a large guard of soldiers, a number of horses and baggage-waggons. The yard and house were in confusion, and glitter'd with military equipments.

Gould was intimate with Smallwood, and had gone into Jesse's to see him. While he was there, there was great running up and down stairs, so I had an opportunity of seeing and being seen, the former the most agreeable, to be sure. One person, in particular, attracted my notice. He appear'd cross and reserv'd; but thee shall see how agreeably disappointed I was.

Dr. Gould usher'd the gentlemen into our parlour, and introduced them, "Gen'l Smallwood, Capt. Furnival, Major Stodard, Mr. Prig, Capt. Finley,⁸ and Mr. Clagan,⁹ Col. Wood, and Col. Line." These last two did not come with the Gen'l. They are Virginians, and both indispos'd. The Gen'l and suite are Marylanders.

Be assur'd I did not stay long with so many men, but secur'd a good retreat, heart-safe, so far. Some sup'd with us, others at Jesse's. They retir'd about ten, in good order.

How new is our situation! I feel in good spirits, though surrounded by an Army, the house full of officers, the yard alive with soldiers, — very peaceable sort of men, tho'. They eat like other folks, talk like them, and behave themselves with elegance; so I will not be afraid of them, that I won't.

Adieu. I am going to my chamber to dream, I suppose, of bayonets and swords, sashes, guns, and epaulets.

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¹ We are unfortunately given nothing in relation to the Battle of Germantown, which occurred October 4th, in this interval. The omission is difficult to understand, becauses she alludes, later, to "the battle of Germantown, and the horrors of that day." — H. M. J.

² On this date the British withdrew from Germantown into Philadelphia, and the Americans moved down the Skippack Road, and the roads adjacent, to take a nearer position. Washington's headquarters, for some days, were at "James Morris's, on the Skippack road," and on the 2d of November, at Whitemarsh, at the Emlen mansion hereafter mentioned. It was the movement of troops down the Morris road, no doubt, "half a mile away," — that Sally and her friends went to see. — H. M. J.

³ ELIZABETH WISTER, Sally's sister, born February 27, 1764.

⁴ GEORGE EMLEN, son of George and Ann (Reckless) Emlen, was born in Philadelphia, February 25, 1741, and died November 23, 1812. He was married to Sarah Fishbourne, daughter of William and Mary (Talman) Fishbourne, at Pine Street Friends' Meeting, Philadelphia, February 1, 1775. The Emlens had a country seat at Whitemarsh, fourteen miles north of the city. This estate was purchased by George Emlen, Sr., a wealthy Quaker merchant of Philadelphia, in 1745, and at his death, January 3, 1776, it had come into possession of his widow, Ann Emlen, his son George Emlen, Jr., and the other heirs. The Emlen mansion was used by General Washington as his headquarters during the encampment of the Continental Army at Whitemarsh, in the late autumn of 1777, and it was here a few months later that Sally Wister visited and wrote part of the Journal. The house is still standing near Camp Hill Station on the Reading Railroad. It is now owned by the estate of the late Charles T. Aiman. — Phila. Deeds, G. 7, p. 359; Emlen family records.

⁵ PRISCILLA FOULKE, daughter of William and Hannah, and sister of Caleb, Amos, and Jesse; "Cousin " simply by courtesy, as she was not of kin to Sally. She was born Oct. 3, 1744, and died Jan. 25, 1821, unmarried. — H. M. J.

⁶ DAVID GOULD, of Virginia, was appointed Hospital Surgeon in the Continental Line, September 8, 1777, and Senior Hospital Surgeon in Virginia, October 11, 1779. He died July 12, 1781, "while on his way to Philadelphia to settle his accounts." (Heitman; "American State Papers," xix., 21). Our journalist thus notes his death, in the back part of the book containing her Journal:

"August, 1781. And must I again trace with my pen an account of the death of another of our Northwales friends? The worthy Dr. Gould: — the last scene of his life was clos'd at Hartford [Harford?] in Maryland. Clos'd forever those lips, from which proceeded the most beautiful sentiments, cloath'd in the most elegant expressions. Silent forever that silver tongue, that charm'd the listening audience. Flown to happier regions that heart, where all the social virtues resided, where disappointment shall never enter.

"I hope

“‘The hand of friendship rais'd his languid head

“‘And smooth'd the pillow of his dying bed.’”

⁷ WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, son of Bayne and Priscilla (Heabard) Smallwood, was born in Maryland in 1732. His father was a merchant and planter, at one time presiding officer of the Court of Common Pleas, and also a member of the House of Burgesses; his mother was a native of Virginia. At an early age he was sent to school in England, where he finished his education. On January 2, 1776, he was made Colonel of the Maryland Battalion, and on July 10, with nine companies, he joined Washington in New York. His troops took an active part in the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, and at White Plains. At White Plains he was wounded, and for his gallantry on the occasion Congress appointed him a Brigadier-General, October 23, 1776. He was present at the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown. At the latter place his Maryland troops retrieved the day, and captured part of the enemy's camp. During the winter of 1777-1778 he was stationed at Wilmington, Delaware. He won new laurels in the southern campaign, and received the thanks of Congress. In September, 1780, he was given the rank of Major-General, and remained in the army until the close of the war. In 1785, he was elected to Congress, but in the same year was chosen Governor of Maryland, and served in the latter office until 1788. He then retired to his plantation called "Mattawoman," on the Potomac, in Charles County, and resided there during the remainder of his life. The registers of Durham Parish show that he took an active part in the vestry meetings. In 1791 his subscription to the Vestry was estimated on three thousand pounds of tobacco, the largest crop in the parish. He died unmarried, February 14, 1792, and is buried on his plantation; his estate passed to collateral heirs. His old Colonial homestead, built of brick, still stands upon a high promontory on the shore of the Potomac. On July 4, 1898, the Sons of the American Revolution erected there a granite monument to his memory. — Nat. Cyc. of Amer. Bio., IX., 292; Heitman; Md. Journal and Balt. Advertiser, Feb. 21, 1792.

⁸ EBENEZER FINLEY, of Maryland, made Captain of Maryland Artillery, July 4, 1777. This company formed part of the First Continental Artillery, May 30, 1778. In June, 1780, Captain Finley became Department Judge Advocate of the Southern Department, and continued in that office until the close of the war. Heitman.

⁹ HORATIO CLAGETT, or Claggett, son of Thomas Clagett, of "Piscataway," St. George's County, Maryland, served as Ensign of the Third Battalion Maryland Flying Camp, from July to

December, 1776. He became First Lieutenant of the third Maryland regiment, December 10, 1776, and Captain, October 10, 1777. He was transferred to the Fifth Maryland, January 1, 1781, and to the Third Maryland, January 2, 1783. He was retained in the Maryland Battalion, April, 1783, and on the 30th of September was given the rank of Brevet-Major. His service in the army continued until November 3, 1783. After the war he went to London, England, married and died there. — Heitman; W. W. Bowie, "Bowies and Their Kindred (Washington, D. C., 1899), 399.

SOURCE: Albert Cook Myers, Editor, Sally Wister's Journal A True Narrative Being A Quaker Maiden's Account Of Her Experiences With Officers Of The Continental Army, 1777-1778, pp. 74-81