Diary of a merchant from Totnes, Devon, at sea on board the Sally, August-October 1780
1780
MSS L2019F67 [Bound]
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Title
Diary of a merchant from Totnes, Devon, at sea on board the Sally, August-October 1780
Variant Title
Diary Aug. 1780, on board a convoy going to America
Published
[S.l.] 1780
Description
[ca. 70] p. ; 19 cm.
Call Number
MSS L2019F67 [Bound]
Note
On cover: Giles Welsford. Diary Aug. 1780, on board a convoy going to America.
Interleaved with blotting papers throughout the text.
Final [10] p. on folded quarto sheets stitched at end.
Giles Welsford was a merchant from Totnes, Devon, who sailed in a British convoy from Plymouth to New York during the revolutionary war. His diary gives a vivid account of the nearly three-months crossing, including a near shipwreck after their ship was accidentally broadsided with another; detailed descriptions of ocean wildlife, weather conditions, and sickness aboard ship.
He expressed his anxiety upon the approach to New York in a fog as to whether the firing they heard was from the French fleet, and their relief at finally seeing "English Men of War with English colours hoisted." They also learn that "General Arnold was to come over to us & we'd have delivered up a Fort with some Thousand Men to Major Andrews [André] … but at the very critical Moment the Plot was discovered Major Andrews seized & hung immediately but Arnold with the greatest Difficulty escaped…."
Also mentioned the exiled loyalist women who experienced the difficulties of transatlantic sailing, including Mrs. Townsend, a loyalist from Long Island, hoping to return and reclaim some of her estate.
Bound in calf.
Interleaved with blotting papers throughout the text.
Final [10] p. on folded quarto sheets stitched at end.
Giles Welsford was a merchant from Totnes, Devon, who sailed in a British convoy from Plymouth to New York during the revolutionary war. His diary gives a vivid account of the nearly three-months crossing, including a near shipwreck after their ship was accidentally broadsided with another; detailed descriptions of ocean wildlife, weather conditions, and sickness aboard ship.
He expressed his anxiety upon the approach to New York in a fog as to whether the firing they heard was from the French fleet, and their relief at finally seeing "English Men of War with English colours hoisted." They also learn that "General Arnold was to come over to us & we'd have delivered up a Fort with some Thousand Men to Major Andrews [André] … but at the very critical Moment the Plot was discovered Major Andrews seized & hung immediately but Arnold with the greatest Difficulty escaped…."
Also mentioned the exiled loyalist women who experienced the difficulties of transatlantic sailing, including Mrs. Townsend, a loyalist from Long Island, hoping to return and reclaim some of her estate.
Bound in calf.
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