PUBLIC "-//Colonial Williamsburg Foundation::John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library//TEXT (US::ViWC::viwc00301:: Siege of York and Gloucester, Virginia, 1781 September 15 to October 17 )//EN" "viwc00301.xml" A Guide to the Siege of York and Gloucester, Virginia, 1781 September 15 to October 17 Siege of York and Gloucester, Virginia MS 1981.5 John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation © 2008 By The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record, created by Rebecca Barnhart, 04/07/2008 Description is in English 2013-11-21 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. A Guide to the Siege of York and Gloucester, Virginia, 1781 September 15 to October 17 A Collection in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation`sJohn D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library MS 1981.5

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 2008 Special Collections Staff John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Descriptive Summary John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Siege of York and Gloucester, Virginia 1781 September 15 to October 17 MS 1981.5 On site. 1 item. English Unknown Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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

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Purchase, 1981

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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.

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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