DATES
As far as dates are concerned, it's clear to me that those authors who quote
1812 are unaware that the first British entry into the Chesapeake during the
War of 1812 was in February 1813, with an advance party of four ships, while
the main squadron arrived at, and anchored in, Lynnhaven Bay on 3 March. The
letter of 22 August 1813 is very welcome, as it fits nicely with the
information in, first, the muster of HMS DRAGON, showing four refugees
received on 3 September, and, second, the document I quoted, which said "the
said negros ranaway in the summer or Fall of that year, a short time before
the building called the pleasure house was burnt". The refugees in question
were from the farm of William Boush, in Princess Anne County, and it was two
of them that were said to have led the British to the Pleasure House.

LYNNHAVEN BAY
The name 'Lynnhaven Bay' certainly appears inland on the TerraServer map
where 'Linkhorn Bay' appears in older maps, which all show Lynnhaven Bay to
be the stretch of water in the Chesapeake that includes Lynnhaven Roads, but
does anyone know the true current usage - is it possible that the USGS has
confused Linkhorn Bay with Lynnhaven Bay and has simply got it wrong?

URL ERROR
I'm grateful for the indication on and off list that my URL is
case-sensitive and that I had carelessly included a capital T in the second
Trinidad in the webpage but not in the URL I quoted. I shall try to insert a
link that will enable both forms.

What with maps and letters, my query on what I thought was peripheral to my
story begins to bear rich fruit indeed. Thanks to all of you.

John Weiss

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