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
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From: "John Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
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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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