Loretta

Capitalisation of the definite article in the manuscript sources is as I
have shown it, and it was in the hope that someone on this list might have
recognised the reference that I posted these excerpts, my underlying
question being very much the one you have expressed.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Loretta Kelldorf" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: Pleasure House on Lynhaven Bay, 1814


: I believe it will an important distinction to your research to determine
if
: Pleasure House was the name of a home or tavern or if the writers meant
THE
: pleasure house, being a house most of us don't visit or talk about.
:
: Loretta
: ----- Original Message -----
: From: "John Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
: To: <[log in to unmask]>
: Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 9:01 AM
: Subject: Pleasure House on Lynhaven Bay, 1814
:
:
: > Can anyone help amplify a reference I have found in affidavits relating
to
: > the desertion of slaves to the British in the War of 1812? Several
: deponents
: > refer to the burning in late 1813 of a building called the Pleasure
House,
: > apparently in Princess Anne County and on the beach of Lynhaven Bay:
: >
: > [1] "some of the said negroes conducted a detachment from the said
: [British]
: > ships to the Pleasure House belonging to Mr Nimmo, which was burnt by
the
: > enemy"
: >
: > [2] "in the year 1813 . . . the said negros ranaway in the summer or
Fall
: of
: > that year, a short time before the building called the pleasure house
was
: > burnt. That house was on the Bay side. It was stated by some of our
people
: > who were at the Pleasure house, that  . .  two of the said negros
: conducted
: > the British party along the Beach and marshes to the spot . . "
: >
: > [3] "A short time after the said negroes went away a house called the
: > Pleasure House on the bay side and occupied by our Militia was taken by
a
: > party from the British fleet and burnt. It was said by some of our men
who
: > made their escape that the said British detachment was pilotted by two
of
: > said negroes"
: >
: > [RG76, International Claims, E-190, Case Files, case 282; NARA, College
: Park
: > Maryland,]
: >
: > John Weiss
: > Independent Scholar, London
: > http://homepage.virgin.net/john.weiss/trinidad/trinidad.html

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