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The journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Biog. C922c 1924
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cresswell, Nicholas, 1750-1804.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- United States.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- ix pages, 1 leaf, 287 pages frontispiece (portrait) plates, facsimile 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, Lincoln MacVeagh, The Dial Press, 1924.
- Contents:
- Preparations
- The voyage, first glimpses
- Virginia, illness, Barbados
- Virginia again, proposed trip to Illinois
- Over hill and stream, the Kentucky River
- The Ohio River, the Indian country
- Back in Virginia, news of the revolution
- Attempt to leave, suspected as a spy
- A winter of discontent
- Hampton, Williamsburg, voyage to New York
- Two months in New York Harbour
- General Washington, the colonies
- Return voyage, Edale once more
- Appendix, comparative table of dates.
- Notes:
- Diary kept during author's stay in America.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cresswell, Nicholas, 1750-1804. Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777.
- OCLC:
- 706528
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