Our four children,
Nancy Waln, Hannah and Polly Drinker, went in our waggon to Kensington—Jacob
and Harry went on foot, to see ye new ship Chalkley launched; ye second of that
name belonging to James & Drinker.
SOURCE: Henry D.
Biddle, Editor, Extracts from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker
from 1759 to 1807, A.D., p. 39
B. Trapnell taken
unwell with a sick stomach and fever; Dr Parke attends him. He continued ye
same till ye morning of ye 9th, without our being apprehensive of the danger he
was in, or Dr Parke, tho' Benny had desired him to call in Dr Kearsley—who did
not see him till ye 9th, when he was much changed for the worse. His fever had
changed to billious; he departed this life about 4 o'clock, ye morning of ye
10th—First day—and was so much changed by 9 o'clock, that ye Doctors advised by
all means to bury him that day, which was accordingly done, between 7 and 8
o'clock in ye evening.
Benny was in his
27th or 28th year—much lamented by all of us.
SOURCE: Henry D.
Biddle, Editor, Extracts from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker
from 1759 to 1807, A.D., p. 39
H. D. left home for
Atsion. Hilary Baker lodges here in ye place of our poor Benny, whom we miss
very much.
SOURCE: Henry D.
Biddle, Editor, Extracts from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker
from 1759 to 1807, A.D., p. 40
Ye new ship
Chalkley, Edward Spain, master, sailed this afternoon for Bristol.
SOURCE: Henry D.
Biddle, Editor, Extracts from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker
from 1759 to 1807, A.D., p. 40
Reba Waln
and her daughter Nancy, M. S., E. D., Sally, Nancy and Billy went to see the
Waxworks made by Mrs Wells, opposite ye Royal White Oak.
SOURCE: Henry D.
Biddle, Editor, Extracts from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker
from 1759 to 1807, A.D., p. 40
H. D., E. D. and
Sally went to Frankford on Horseback. H. D. on Wild-deer, Sally on ye mare, E.
D. on Noble. We were overtaken by two of Owen Jones's daughters, who went with
us to A. James'. We came home the Point road—10 miles.
SOURCE: Henry D.
Biddle, Editor, Extracts from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker
from 1759 to 1807, A.D., p. 40
Waiting with a great deal of impatience for a passage to Alexandria. I am informed that the Land is much better the higher you go up the River. If it is not, I will not settle in this part of the Country.
SOURCE: Nicholas Cresswell, The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell 1774—1777, p. 19
Spent the afternoon at Colonel Harrison's. Find him a very intelligent man and seems to take a pleasure in communicating the customs and manners of his countrymen. Captn. Knox returned to Nanjemoy this evening and gave me an invitation to go with him to Annapolis, which I intend to accept.
SOURCE: Nicholas Cresswell, The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell 1774—1777, p. 19
Port Tobacco, Maryland. Hired a horse and crossed Nanjemoy
Creek. Got to Port Tobacco in the evening. This is a small town situated at the
head of a Creek of the same name. The County Courts are held here and a
Warehouse for the inspection of Tobacco. Several Scotch Factors are settled
here.
SOURCE: Nicholas Cresswell, The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell 1774—1777, pp. 19-20
Marlbro, Maryland. Left Port Tobacco in company with Mr.
John Creig, a Scotch Merchant, Doctor Gustavus Richard Brown, and Captn. Knox.
Dined at Piscataway, a small town 16 miles from Port Tobacco. Our victuals
badly drest, and sour. Madeira Wine at 7/6 per Bottle. From Piscataway to
Marlbro 16 miles. Saw the quarter of a Negro man chained to a Tree for
murdering his overseer. Land in general appears barren and thinly inhabited,
some places sandy and others a sort of stiff clay, but plenty of fine Orchards,
and I observe they generally plant a Peach Orchard on the worst land. They had
a frost on the 9th. of May, which has killed a great number of Trees, the woods
for a mile together seem dead and withered.
SOURCE: Nicholas Cresswell, The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell 1774—1777, p. 20
