Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Siege of York and Gloucester, Virginia, Manuscript #MS 1981.5, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

Acquisition Information

Purchase, 1981

Biographical/Historical Information

None available.

Scope and Content

Unsigned manuscript journal chronicalling the events leading to the Siege of Yorktown, 1781 October 19. Mentions the arrival of Fren ch generals Lafayette and de Grasse and of George Washington at Jamestown and of the Continental Army at the James River. Notes the bu rning of the British flagship, the "Charon". Records the number of dead and wounded.Mentions {Robert} Abercromby, Baron von Steuben, {Charles} Cornwallis, {John} Muhlenberg, and Claude Saint-Simon, and the details of the British surrender.

Arrangement

1 item.

Index Terms

Persons:

• Abercromby, Robert, Sir, 1740-1827
• Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805
• Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788
• Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
• Muhlenberg, John Peter Gabriel, 1746-1807
• Saint-Simon, Claude-Anne, comte de, 1743-1819
• Savage, John, fl. 1775-1781
• Scammell, Alexander, 1747-1781
• Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794
• Viomenil, Charles Joseph Hyacinth du Houx, 1734-1827
• Washington, George, 1732-1799

Corporate Names:

• Charon (Ship)

Geographical Names:

• Jamestown (Va.)-History-18th century
• United States-History-Revolution, 1775-1783-Participation, Foreign
• Virginia-History-Revolution, 1775-1783
• Yorktown (Va.)-History-Siege, 1781