A Collection in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation`s John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. Library Manuscript Number MS 1981.5
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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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.