In the Charleston packet, Captain Wright, came passengers, the Hon. Henry Middleton and Edward Rutledge, Esq's., two of the gentlemen who are nominated, to attend the Congress from the Colony of South Carolina.
SOURCE: William Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of Christopher Marshall, Kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the American Revolution, Vol. 1, 1774-1777, p. 10
Also arrived, the ship Hannah, Captain Mitchell, from Londonderry, with four hundred passengers, and Captain Jones, from London, with one hundred passengers, mostly tradesmen.
SOURCE: William Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of Christopher Marshall, Kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the American Revolution, Vol. 1, 1774-1777, p. 10
Arrived, brig Sea Nymph, Captain Moore, from Charleston, South Carolina, with whom [came] passengers Thomas Lynch and Christopher Gadsden, two of is give the delegates from that Province. The latter end of this week came to town, Col. Nathaniel Fulson and Major John Sullivan, delegates from New Hampshire.
SOURCE: William Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of Christopher Marshall, Kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the American Revolution, Vol. 1, 1774-1777, p. 10
Came to town, Hon. Thomas Cushing, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, and John Adams, delegates from the Province of Massachusetts Bay, with whom came in company, from New York, John Rutledge, delegate we from South Carolina, who took his passage to New York.
SOURCE: William Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of Christopher Marshall, Kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the American Revolution, Vol. 1, 1774-1777, p. 10
Arrived, the ship Alexander, Captain Hunter, with about six hundred passengers, from Londonderry.
SOURCE: William Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of Christopher Marshall, Kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the American Revolution, Vol. 1, 1774-1777, p. 10
* The three counties now forming the State of Delaware.
SOURCE: William Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of Christopher Marshall, Kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the American Revolution, Vol. 1, 1774-1777, p. 10
Joined the troops
under General Green at Round O, in the State of South Carolina. Moved to
Pond-Pond; here we lay some time. Rice farms around this neighborhood—the
fields almost all under water; immense quantities of ducks; excellent sport at
times. Planters return to their homes live in style. Army change their ground;
march to Ashley. Was on picket the night before we reached Ashley; got
exceedingly wet—it rained all night. Marched next morning in wet clothes twelve
miles, to Ashley, exposed to very hot sun; laid up with fever carried to
hospital; as soon as able, returned to camp. Hospital very disagreeable place—all
sick, and some continually dying. Attendance good; surgeons very kind;
furnished with some stores, sugar, tea and molasses. Continued weak and unfit
for duty for some weeks. Ashley a very good position—ground high and dry; but
it is now midsummer and sickly season. Men die very fast; lost several valuable
officers. Ashley river low; full of alligators.
SOURCE: J. B.
Lippincott & Co., Publisher, The Record of the Court at Upland, in
Pennsylvania. 1676 to 1681. And a Military Journal Kept by Major E. Denny, 1781
to 1795, p. 250
Camp continued on
bank of Ashley river, eighteen or twenty miles above Charleston. Enemy confine
themselves to city. Their light troops and horse advanced five miles, at place
called Quarter House. Armies both seem disposed to be quiet; ours in no
condition for doing much. Some talk of peace, and of the enemy evacuating
Charleston. Detailed for command. Joined a captain of the Maryland line;
marched with two sergeants, two corporals, and thirty men, for Georgetown,
about sixty miles distant, coast-wise. Escorted a brigade of wagons loaded with
rum for the army. Country appears deserted; the few people we saw looked bad
enough, poor and dejected; they fled from us, and in some instances hid
themselves. Farms on this route have been neglected; exposed to the incursions
of the British. Negroes and stock either removed or taken. Fell in with an
alligator, twelve feet in length, in the middle of the road; supposed that his
pond had dried up, and that he was in search of another; soldier shot him.
SOURCE: J. B.
Lippincott & Co., Publisher, The Record of the Court at Upland, in
Pennsylvania. 1676 to 1681. And a Military Journal Kept by Major E. Denny, 1781
to 1795, pp. 250-1
Our camp very thin;
not more than three relieves of officers and men for the ordinary duties.
Hospitals crowded, and great many sick in camp; deaths so frequent, the funeral
ceremony dispensed with. Provisions scarce and very indifferent; the beef
brought from the back counties of North Carolina, by the time they reach the
camp, poor indeed, and must be unwholesome. Commissary's yard and slaughter
place commonly short distance from camp. Soldier going there in morning about
killing time, met his comrade returning in; asked how was the beef this
morning? other replied, that it took two men to hold up the creature until the
butcher knocked it down. Says the other, And why didn't he knock it down as it
lay? Flour a rare article. Troops have lived chiefly upon rice, now and then a
small allowance of Indian meal served out - rice very good for the sick, but
rather washy for duty men. Governor Hamilton, of this State, himself and
family, quarter at a pleasant seat, two miles in rear of camp General Green not
quite so far; each has a subaltern's guard. Very fond of getting one or other
of these guards better fare than we have in camp. Officer considered and
treated as one of the family.
SOURCE: J. B.
Lippincott & Co., Publisher, The Record of the Court at Upland, in
Pennsylvania. 1676 to 1681. And a Military Journal Kept by Major E. Denny, 1781
to 1795, pp. 251-2
Camp at Ashley Hill.
Ranks thinned very much; deaths not so frequent. Our situation as to ground, a
handsome one, and, as far as I can judge, eligible, but assuredly the climate
is severe upon northern constitutions. Gentlemen who can afford it, reside
during summer in the city and spend the winter in the country. An unpleasant
week's command. At a bridge over Ashley, six or seven miles from camp, where
the great road from Charleston to the upper country crosses, a subaltern and
thirty men have been stationed. It became my turn. Orders were to suffer no
people to pass or repass without proper permit. It was now pretty well known
that the enemy would soon evacuate the city. Many poor devils had taken
protection and followed the British in; provisions scarce in town, and those
people sick of their situation-they were anxious to get back to their old
places of abode in the country. Some very miserable objects came out—whole
families, battered and starving. Was sure, upon my representation,
leave would be given to let them pass. Stated the business in writing, and
dispatched a sergeant. No—ordered not to let them pass; thought this an
unnecessary cruelty.
SOURCE: J. B.
Lippincott & Co., Publisher, The Record of the Court at Upland, in
Pennsylvania. 1676 to 1681. And a Military Journal Kept by Major E. Denny, 1781
to 1795, pp. 252-3
