On September 13, 1908, I was born on the Burgess family plantation, Regulus, in Henry County, Virginia. I was born in the same house as my father, John Abram Burgess. His father, John Henry Burgess, was born on the same plantation but in a house on Smith River . (Rivers were the chief means of transportation at that time.)

John Burgess, Sr., died of a fever, and because of a fear of spreading his disease, the house and all of its contents were burned, including all family records and heirlooms. It has been said that John’s mother was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria of England, but no verification of this detail exists. He was reported to have left his widow well provided for, but there are no records of this or of how she managed to build the replacement house or of where she and her children lived in the meantime.

John Burgess, Sr., was born April 7, l77l , and he married Mary Weaver, who was born February l5, l784. They had two children, Mary, who married a Minter, and John Henry Burgess, Jr., who was married three times, the first time to Susan Ziegler who died young, leaving no children , and the second time to Ruth Swartz who bore him two children-Ruth Fields Burgess, born on August 5, l859, and Mary D. (Mollie), born January l7, l864. Ruth Fields Burgess married William F. Stultz, and they had one daughter, Elizabeth (Lizzie) . Mollie married Archer R. Bennett. They had no children, but they owned an automobile, which caused a sensation when they drove it to visit the plantation. Dad was entranced with the car, but it was ten years before he bought his own. It was a Model -T Ford which he bought for a hundred dollars and sold for fifty dollars ten years later. John Henry’s 3^rd wife and their children are detailed later.

The plantation house was rather interesting, built on a hill with a nice view of the surrounding hills and of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance. The ground floor of the house consisted of two rooms (the master bedroom and the parlor), each approximately 20 x 24 ft. with a hallway between them leading from the front door to the second floor and a front porch about halfway across the front. Then there was a combination porch and hallway all across the back. The hallway part opened to a dining room nearly as large as the bedroom. The other end led to a back porch which ran from the kitchen door to the chimney. (There was a chimney and fireplace on each side of the house to serve the bedroom and parlor.) I suspect that the dining room and the bedroom above it were added later, and that the kitchen had been originally detached from the house as was customary at that time. The second floor consisted of two bedrooms above the master bedroom and parlor and of the same size, and a smaller one at the end of the hall, down a couple of steps and above the dining room.

The master bedroom served as the family sitting room. It had a large tester bed in the SW corner which probably had a trundle bed beneath it when needed. In the NW corner there was a conventional double bed. There was a large desk - with bookshelves above and drawers beneath- in the SE corner. There was a wardrobe and a washstand in the NE corner. There was a large stone fireplace in the center of the east wall in which a fire burned continuously six or seven months out of the year. There was a hinged iron hook fastened in the chimney on which to hang cooking pots and a popcorn popper and utensils in which to bake various things in the coals.. Several rocking chairs were grouped in front of the fireplace. The parlor across the hall was saved for formal occasions - mostly weddings and funerals.

John Burgess’ widow married a Reverend Minter, a Primitive Baptist preacher with six motherless sons which she reared along with her two children. Her daughter married one of these step brothers.

Her son, John Henry Burgess, Jr. (b 8-1-1831; d. 1-24-1914) attended Hollins College, than know as Valley Union Seminary, and received an education probably equivalent to a "pre-law" course, He was consulted often by his friends and neighbors, on legal matters.

I have been told that he was at one time a member of the state legislature, but I have been unable to verify this.

He did serve in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and the following is an account of this service which he wrote for his daughter, Elizabeth: "In the commencement of the war, I volunteered in Company H commanded bye Capt. S.J. Mullins of the 42^nd Virginia Regiment which regiment was commanded bye Col. Jessee Burks, was drilled at Lynchburg and was first called to reinforce Gen. Floid at Sewel Mountain who was holding in check the advance of Gen. Rosencance. General R. E. Lee was in command of our recruiting force which caused Rosencrance to retreat - we were then called to the Valley of Virginia and was under the command of Gen. Stonewall Jackson was in various skirmishes and was in the battle of Hernstown in which our Regiment received the post of honor. I was appointed first lieutenant of our company in the place of Dr. J. W. Smith who was appointed surgeon of our regiment. Our Capt. Mullins falling sick the command of the company fell into my hands which position I held until the reorganization and not being reinstated I was allowed to go home and holding the office Justice of the Peace I was required to arrest deserters from the army and living near the N. C. line and in a neighborhood of mostly union men who have bound deserters, I had to render considerable service and once while on duty at night with three others we came in contact with twelve deserters from Gen Picket’s division. They were fully armed and defied surrender and endeavored to kill me but having my gun cocked which was a double barrel I shot two of them before they could get their guns in positions and the last man I shot I took his gun and shot the third deserter who was endeavouring to shoot me but his gun failing to fire which saved my life, When my office as magistrate expired I was called to the army and I joined the 10^th Va Cavalry was in the battles around Petersburg and served until the surrender of Gen. Lee."

Possibly because of his hair raising military services, he became almost a religious fanatic. He organized a Primitive Baptist church in the neighbor- hood and preached there until the church was well enough established to employ a professional minister.

After his military service, he married for the third time, April 2, 1868. This bride was Mary Dalton Foster from Patrick County (b. 5-16-1844:d. 12-1943). They went to one of the fashionable spas for their honeymoon. As they walked up the steps, one of the elderly men sitting in the rockers on the porch turned to another and remarked, "Well, it will be the widow Burgess this time." He was so right as she bore him ten children and reared them all plus the two daughters from his second marriage (as well as Ruth’s infant daughter Elizabeth until her father married again), and she survived him by 29 years. At the age of 90, she proclaimed that she thought she had done her part. My brother, Jack came to the rescue and brought a great grandson to the family reunion in Patrick County celebrating her 92^nd birthday. She lived to be 99 and was active and alert, deafness being her only problem.

While I don’t know the details, Grandma must have had the education given young ladies of that period. The thing she was proudest of in her youth was that one of the Confederate generals left his horse at her home for rest and recuperation and she had the privilege of riding it.

As to her background: The first that is known of the name Foster was about 1050 when Sir Richard Forester, called then by his latinized name Forestorius, went over to England. He accompanied his brother-in-law, William, the Conqueror, and his father, Baldwin the 4^th, the Forester called Le Debonaire, whose wife was Adela, the daughter of Robert, King of France, and participated in the victorious battle of Hastings.

The name was first Forrester, the Forester, and now Foster, It means nourishment, or food, or to bring up. Sir Walter Besant wrote the novel Dorothy Foster. He stated, "There are in Northumberland as many Fosters as Fenwicks and more. First it hath been said the Lord made Adam and Eve, and then he made the Forsters." The seat of the Fosters from time immemorial has been at Etherston, which is interpreted the "Adder’s Stone."

They have always been, like most Northumbrian families blessed with numerous progeny. One had twenty-one sons and a daughter, only surpassed by Sir William Swinburn, who had thirty children. The Fosters were connected with nearly every family of gentle birth in the north: Whartons, Neiltons, Ogles, Radcliffes, Swinburns, etc. (This information was obtained by Miss Ellen T. McDonald from a history of the Massachusetts Fosters in the Library of Congress in June 1921).

Grandma’s father was Abram Penn Foster and he must have run true to his heritage as she was one of numerous progeny. In his later years he must have had a full head of curly white hair, as I remember my Dad telling of one time when he was a small boy and sleeping in the "other bed" in the master bedroom; he woke up and yelled, "Mamma, Mamma, sheep’s in the bed with me." His grandfather had arrived after the household was asleep, and they had put him in the bed with my Dad.

Abraham Penn Foster (b. 1813 d.1891) married Mary Jane Critz on December 19, 1838, in Patrick County, She died on October 26, 1897. Grandma was the sixth of their seven children, Her twin sister, Hiziah Redd Foster, being the seventh.

The ten children of John Henry Burgess, Jr. And Mary Foster Burgess were: Edmond Foster Burgess, (b. 1-13-1869; d. 4-1943) Henrietta Elizabeth Burgess, (b.1-19-1870 d.1924); Robert Lee Burgess(b. 12-28-1871 d. 1969) and named for his father’s hero, Gen. Robert E. Lee; Martha Jane Redd burgess (b. 4-18-1874 d. 1939): Charlotte Dalton Burgess(b. 1-3-1876 d. 1964); Joseph King Burgess (b. 2-25-1878 c. 1949); Ellen Cabell Burgess (b.2-20-1880 d. 9-8-1981); John Abram (Abe) Burgess (b. 8-16-1882 d. 1944); Herbert Peters (Penn) Burgess (9-14-1885 d. 10-22-1969); Posye Lester Burgess (b. 4-25-1888. D-4-17-1970).

John Henry Burgess love the land and wanted his sons to be farmers. He tried to promote a marriage between Foster, his oldest son, and the daughter of a well-to-do farmer in the area. The girl’s name was Betsy. Foster left home before the plans could be carried out.

Foster Burgess’ first job after leaving home was digging coal. He wrote home and told his family that he was working in a bank. The family was so proud of him and his mother bragged, "I knew Foster would succeed." John Henry Burgess sent his three older daughters to Salem College in Winston-Salem North Carolina. The girls became teachers. Ruth and Mollie taught in the country school near their home, The taught most of their half brothers and sisters. Elizabeth received a musical education, and she taught in the schools in the city of Roanoke for some time.

Robert Lee left home and worked at a hotel in Covington, Virginia. He went to night school to get an education. He obtained a certificate in business and electrical wiring. He later opened his own business in Bluefield, West Virginia. Joseph King joined Foster in the coal fields and took a business course by correspondence. He in later years worked with Robert Lee in Bluefield.

Herbert Penn (Uncle Pete) left home and went to work with Foster who had become an apple broker. With the help of his three brothers. Herbert was able to attend VPI, in Blacksburg, Virginia. He later worked for Hagerstown Shoe and Legging Co. with Bernard Wharton. He had the district in Florida. He and his wife, Inez, lived in Florida many years.

John Henry told a successful farmer nearby that he could have the hand of one of his daughters in marriage. The farmer picked Charlotte. When he came "courtin’", Charlotte stayed in her room and pretended to be sick. The farmer did not get his "bride".

Charlotte and Jane saw an advertisement in a paper that told of an opportunity for nursing training in a hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They answered the ad and went to the hospital. They stayed there until they received their certificates. They heard of " homesteading" in Montana, so they went west and had their own claim. I wonder if they built and lived in a sod house as many of the pioneers did? While in the west Charlotte met Dr. Thomas Strong. She worked for him for a while and later married him.

Ellen was sent to Normal School at Farmville, Virginia. She also became a teacher and taught in Covington, Virginia. While there she met Bernard Wharton whom she married in 1906.

Posye went to business school in Bluefield, but she did not like it. She took nurse’s training and received an RN certificate. On a case as a special nurse for an Airheart in Waynesboro, Virginia, she met his son, Andrew J. Airheart, who was twenty years her senior. They were married a year later at Happy Hollow, Ellen and Bernard’s home in Roanoke County, Virginia.

John Abe was the only son to fulfill his father’s wish and stay on the farm.

I think it is interesting that John Henry educated his daughters rather than his sons. He must have made the decision consciously, possibly because of some experience while attending Hollins. Freeing of his slaves after The War had seriously hurt him financially as it had all the southern plantation owners. His loss was not as great as that of the major plantation owners who measured their holdings in thousands of acres while his was in hundreds and their slaves were numbered in the hundreds while his were in the dozens. As all of them were, his plantation was a self-contained entity. He had a blacksmith shop with a slave trained as a blacksmith and a mill where the corn and wheat grown on the place were ground into meal and flour and feed for the stock, operated by a slave trained as a miller, etc.

When the slaves were freed, he gave each or the artisans the mill or shop he had operated plus his cabin and an acre of land so that he would be self-sufficient. This depleted his land holdings as well as leaving him without the free labor. He also gave "Uncle" John and his wife "Aunt" Jane, who were the house slaves a cabin and an acre of land thought I don’t think they lived in it until after we left there as I seem to remember them living in a two room cabin in the yard. I don’t know just when or how Grandpa acquired "uncle" John as his personal slave, but it must have been quite early in his life. And some time during that period, he accompanied Grandpa on a visit to a family across the river. On the way home, Uncle John confided in Grandpa that he "kinda’ liked" that girl over there. So, shortly thereafter, Grandpa went over and arranged to purchase that girl, Jane as Uncle John’s wife. Along with being his wife, she became "mammy" to the rest of Grandpa’s children and to the three of us who were born while we lived there.

Uncle John went through The War with Grandpa, looking after his uniforms and grooming and feeding his horse, I presume. I also presume that he did not go with him on his forays after deserters in the area around the plantation. "Uncle" John and "Aunt" Jane were treated like members of the family. There is a picture in the family album of the four John Burgesses in the family: John Henry, "Uncle" John, John Abe, and John Bradshaw.

Before the Rural Free Delivery system was established, there was a branch post office at Regulus and Mary Foster Burgess was the post mistress, in addition to her other manifold duties.

As noted before, John Henry Burgess, Jr. Tried unsuccessfully to arrange marriages for several of his children. On the other hand, his daughter, Elizabeth, fell in love with a local youth and asked permission to marry him Her father refused to grant permission saying she was too delicate for the life of a farmer’s wife. When she wasn’t allowed to marry the man of her choice, she never married. The rest of them did. Foster Burgess married Missie Bosworth Cox on April 20, 1904. The adopted a daughter, Agnes Ann Logan, who was born in 1912 and adopted in 1915. Robert Lee Burgess married Nannie Tyree on October 10, 1906. They had one daughter, Elizabeth (b. 2-29-1908 d. 2-2-1992). After the death of his first wife, Robert married Mary Douthat (Becker), a widow, and they had two daughters: Barbara Lee(b. 1-25-31) d. 8-18-1990); and Mary Foote (b.1-31-1933). Martha Jane Redd Burgess married Nemuel Arthur Elliot McDonald on May 18, 1912. They had no children. Charlotte Dalton Burgess married Thomas Jefferson Strong on July 7, 1910, and they adopted a son, Jack. Joseph KIng Burgess married Virginia M. Saunders on April 19,1912; after her death, he married Jessie M. Cox in July 1945. He had no children by either marriage. Ellen Cabell Burgess married H. Bernard Wharton on August 9, 1906. They had no children of their own but loved children dearly and did a great deal for many other people’s children and left the bulk of their estate as a scholarship for needy children. John Abram Burgess married Florence Lucette Bradshaw on November l4, l907. They had five children: Ellen Cherie Burgess (b, 9-l3-08) and married Walter Elliott Shindell on November 2l, l943; John Bradshaw Burgess and married Margaret Reece Gay on August 21, l937; Mary Jane Burgess bl-l-l9l4}; Florence Charlotte Burgess (b.ll-l0-l9l5]; and married William Philip Biggs on July 23, l955; Margaret Lillian Burgess [b.l2-l3-l9l9].d.l2-29-l987] and married Allan Paul McMillan on December 27, l952.

Herbert Peters (Penn] Burgess [b.9-l4-l885.d.l0-22-l969] and married Inez Coyner in July l923. He married twice more after her death but had no children. Posye Lester Burgess [born 4-26-l885.d.4-l7-l970], and married Andrew Jackson Airheart in June l922. They had one child, Andrew Jackson Airheart, Jr., born April 7, l924.

As mentioned earlier, John Abram (Abe] Burgess married Florence Lucette Bradshaw.

According to the Sunday’s Roanoke World: "’Bevey Hall’ the country home of Mr. And Mrs. Charles Bradshaw near Martinsville, Va ., was the scene of a pretty home wedding Thursday, November l4th when their daughter, Florence Lucette Bradshaw, was married to John Abe Burgess, of Ridgeway, Va."

"The parlor, in which the ceremony was performed, was decorated in green and white. The bridal party stood under a wedding bell and canopy of cedar.

"Miss Bradshaw’s gown was French organdie with valenciennen insertion and she wore a tulle veil. Her bouquet was of white carnations. Her only ornament was a pearl brooch, the gift of the groom.

The maid of honor, Miss Posye Burgess, wore white Persian lawn with a sash of green and carried white chrysanthemums tied with green ribbons.

"Phoebe Janette Bradshaw, the little sister of the bride carried the ring. She wore white dotted swiss, with sash, sleeve knots and hair ribbon of pink. The best man was Royal R. Bradshaw, the bride’s brother. After the ceremony, lunch was served in the dining room which was decorated with red Japanese lanterns. Miss Jane Burgess poured tea and Mrs. Carlton Thayer poured chocolate. Misses Ethel Foster, Frances and Nora Richardson assisted in serving.

"Mr. And Mrs. Burgess left on the evening train for a trip through western Virginia. The bride’s going-away gown was a tailored suit of red broadcloth with a large red hat."

After that elaborate wedding, while the wedding party was waiting for that evening train, some of the young men got to ‘horsing around’ and the bridegroom ended up rolling down a red clay bank in the first ‘store bought’ suit he had ever owned in his life. He didn’t think much of weddings from that time on.

Florence Bradshaw was the third of the seven children of Charles Homer Bradshaw [b.4-7-54. D.1-6-25] and Mary Louisa Russell [b. 7-1-1856 d. 2-8-1939]. They were married in 1876. Her great grandfather was Homer Bradshaw [b. 1808 d. 1873] and married in 1825 to Jane Olmstead {d. 1862] They had at least two children: Adelia Bradshaw [b. 1831 d. 1885] and Almon Bradshaw[b. 1828 c. 1870] and married in 1852 to Lucrett Andrew [d. 1862]. They had two children; Alice Bradshaw [b.1852 d. 1925]and married in 1871 to Addison M. Barlow [d.1916] and Charles Homer Bradshaw.

Almon Bradshaw fought in the Civil War on the Federal side. He was either wounded or became ill and was nursed back to health by a Virginia family (probably commissioned by the Army to do so) and he married one of the daughters of that family. I presume that she reared Grandpa and his sister, Alice Bradshaw Barlow; but, if so, there must not have been any love lost between them, as I never heard her mentioned. It’s possible that they were reared by whatever relative looked after them while their father was in the army.

The children of Charles Homer Bradshaw and Mary Louisa Russell Bradshaw were: Mabel Edna Bradshaw [b. 1880 d. 1-18-1919] and married in 1910 to Albert B. Stenberg; Florence Lucette Bradshaw [b. 1883 dl 8-8-1993] and married to John Abram Burgess on 11-14-07(Their five children are entered previously]; Roy Russell Bradshaw [b. 1185 d. 3-17-1920] married in 1910 to Rosamond Reeves. Their children were: George L. Bradshaw [b.1911 c. 5-6-1991], Mabel Bradshaw [b.1913]; Louise Bradshaw[b.1916]; Charles William Bradshaw [b.1919]; Howard Chase Bradshaw [b. 1887 c, 9-13-1980] married in 1928 to Aldona McCalmont. (They had one son, Aubrey Lewis Bradshaw [b. 1932 d. 11-19-1986]) ; William John Bradshaw [b. 1880 d. 12-26-1986]; Arthur Raymond Bradshaw [b. 1891 d. 1-6-1947] and married in 1921 to Alice Grogan. Their children were: Florence Nadine Bradshaw [b 9-4-22], Dorothea Russell Bradshaw [b2-23-26], Julia Marie Bradshaw [b/ 9-1-28], and Phoebe Janette Bradshaw [b. 1900 d. 9-15-57] .

The Bradshaws were collateral descendants of Lord John Bradshaw who was Lord Chief Justice of the court which condemned Charles I to death. (See Encyclopedia Brittanica). He died during Cromwell’s reign and was interred in Westminster Abbey. He was hung in effigy when Charles II regained the throne, but his tomb was not disturbed as Uncle Andrew(the second husband of Mamma’s older sister, Mabel, found it when he was stationed in London during WWI. The two sons of Lord Bradshaw’s brother, from whom we are descended, came to this country upon Charles II’s accession to the throne.

Mary Louisa Russell was descended from Nantucket whaling captains. Her genealogy follows:

Thomas Macy the first settler of Natucket came from England in 1640 to Sussex, Mass., went to the Island in 1654.

John Macy m. Deborah

Deborah Macy married Daniel Russell [d. 1766] came from Rhode Island.

John Russell (1709-1789) m Ruth Starbuck daughter of Nathaniel and Diana Starbuck.

Ruben Russell (1737-1816) m Ruth Swain (1741-1829)

Charles Russell (1765-1837) m Hepsabeth Coffin (1763-1814)

Charles C. Russell (1-21-1802) m Louisa Chase (1803-1862)

George C. Russell (1823-1864) m. Sara Ann Ray(1835) in 1855

Mary Louisa Russell (1856-1939 m Charles H. Bradshaw in 1876

Florence Lucette Bradshaw m John Abram Burgess in 1907.

Charles C. Russell was the last of the line to do any whaling. In the early days they fished in the Atlantic, but eventually the supply there was depleted, and it was necessary to embark on the long and dangerous voyage around Cape Horn into the Pacific to make it worthwhile, This entailed a two-year voyage. Perhaps it would be interesting to quote some of the entries from one of his later voyages. This was on the Barque Ship Arab. (A barque is a three-masted vessel, with foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and mizzenmast fore-and-aft-rigged.)

Charles C. Russell A.D. 1835

Barque Ship Araba From Fairhaven around Cape Horn to the coast of Chile

"Always be zealous in the dissemination principles and have your attention always directed to something useful. Have a place for everything and everything in its place. Governments are maintained by rewards and punishments. Contentment constitutes a principal share of human felicity. National purity will preserve national prosperity."

Wednesday, June 25^th 1835. First part brisk breesis (breezes) from SW cours (course) SE by S at 1PM. Unbent the chain(I think took in the anchor) & past (passed_ a numb (number) of fishing vessils (vessels). At 4 PM no mans land bore NE Distant 20 miles form which I take my Departure

(Chronometer) Long by Chron - PM 76" 47" 15

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Sunday Sep 24 First part brisk breezes from N coues WbyW at 4pm thick rainy (????? Variation 20D ?) this day the sow pigged

Long by Chron 49"44

Middle part light wind & variable

Latter part strong breezes from SSE up SW at 6am spoke the Lima bound to Brunswick So ends Saw finback

Latt by Obs. 47"33

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Saturday Oct. 10 First part strong breezes at 1pm Set the fore topsail & mainsail heading up NW

Long by Chron 60" 55 PM

Middle & latter part stong gales at 10 am beared (steered) ship to the SW wind at NNW made sails

So ends Blow

Latt by Ob 57" 00

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Sunday Oct. 11 First part strong Gales & Squaly at 1 PM took in M (main) top G (gallant) Sail and lowered Down the topsails & rift (reefed) them. In the act of reefing Joseph Thorington fell from the M top sail Yard overboard and was drowned. We loared a boat to his assistance but none could be afforded for the boat filled with water & broke into three others mearly (nearly) escaped a watery grave & when taken in they were nearly exausted (exhausted) at 6pm took in the fore top sail & clost (reefed) the main heading up West

Long by Chron 61"44

Middle & Latter part stong gales & squally at 7 am beered ship to the NW

Latt by Obs 57"37

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Monday Oct. 12 First part strong breezes from West at Set the fore sail & top sail & M sail at 4pm veered Ship to SW

Long by Chron 62"37

Middle part Strong Gales & Squally at 11 took in the fore sail & fore top sail

Latter part the same (?) heading to the North

So ends

Latt by OB 57"14

Tuesday Oct. 13 First part strong breezes from West & at 4pm take to the SW under clost reef (close reefed) top sails.

Long by Chron 62"3

Middle & Latter part stong Gales & thick rainy weather

Latt by Obs 57"37

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Wednesday Oct. 14 First part Strong Gales & Squally at 5pm took in the Main sail & fore top sail Middle Latter (I think)

Long by Chron 63"21

Strong Gales & Squally form WNW ? SW So ends

No obs

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Thursday Oct. 14 First part strong Gales at 4pm mad a (storm) & a heavy sea from the West

Long by Chron 63"13

Middle & Latter part strong Gales & Squally at 9am set a reef fore sail at 12 took it in So Ends

Latt by Obs 57"43

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Friday Oct. 16 First part strong gales & heavy squalls at 4pm took in the main top sail & ? the Ship to under a Main Spencer ( I think a Spencer is like a Spina Spinaker). Latter part heavy gales & squalls of hail. So ends. Broke in the Mainsail & lowered.

Latt by Obs. 58"14

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Saturday Oct. 17 First part moderate & cloudy at 4pm Made sail & veered ship to the north at 8 veered back to SW

Long by Chron62"00

Middle & latter part strong gales & squally & varaible from SSW to SW So ends

Latt by Obs 58"28

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Sunday Oct. 18 First part strong gales form WSW up NW

Long by Chron 63"8

Middle part up NNW Latter part unbent the Gibb & repaired it & tacked to the SW so ends Trimmed a reef of the M Topsail

Latt by Obs 57"24

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Monday Oct. 19 First part strong gales & squally from W up WSW at 5pm took in the M sail & fore top sail & reefed the foresail ? to the main stay

Long by Chron 63"19

Middle part strong gales ? (unrigged?) the Main Stag? Latter part ? it down So ends Variable wind & ?

Latt by Obs 57"57

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Tuesday Oct. 20 First part strong gales at 6 moderate(?) Set Gibb reef of the top sails & bore sail & thick

Long by Chron 64"47

Middle part strong gales Latter part more moderate Set Gib & Mail sail So Ends Squally - took in Gib

Latt by Obs 58"24

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Wednesday Oct. 21 First part strong gales & squally Took in the Mail Sail & far top sail & reefed the fore sail & brook (broke) the fore Spencer Goff N wind at SU up to WNW

Long by Chron 65"55

Middle part strong gales Latter part more moderate Made sail heading up WNW Set the M top G (gallant) So ends Moderate AM

Latt by Obs 57"4

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Thursday Oct. 22 First part moderate bent the Ode fore Spencers wind at S ? W at 4pm Saw a barque steering off ENE at 7pm Saw another ahead

Long by Ch 66"30

Middle part strong gales & squally Lermits island ( or Hermits Island) bearing NNW by compass Distant 40 miles at 8am saw IH Adefonso thru ? the Lisbon ship heading up SWS So ends hauling in heading

Latt by obs 55"50

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Friday Oct. 23 First part brisk breezes form SW at 1pm Alfonso hove W by N at a distance 12 miles So tacked ship heading up SSE under all sail Saw San Diego bearing SE at 3pm Squally took in the top G sails & Spanker at 4pm

Long by Chron 68"53

at 9am past Diego headed up SW latter part strong gales took in the fore top sail & fore sail So ends thick

No Obs

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Saturday Oct. 24 First part strong gales