(seq. 169)

May 20th.
continued.

After some conversation he took his leave promising to see us in the morning
before our departure - he was so good, and very obligingly took charge of a
letter for {General} Haldimand, and one for Major General Philips, enclosing a
copy of the capitulation, and giving him an account of our situation -

21.st reached Goochland Court house - a brutal Landlord, exchanged for a
civil one -

22.d The Officers were orderd to Beaver Dam, the men remained - We had
been left without any guard excepting Lieutenant Rogers from the time
of our getting into Washington county - At the house of Mr. {Thomas}
Pleasants we were hospitably entertained, with all the humanity, candor
and simplicity of a sensible Quaker free from the ostentation of sanctity
but possessed of a liberal and generous spirit - Tho a number of his family
were crowded under one roof, there appeard as much neatness in their persons
and as much good humor in their manner as if they had been perfectly at
ease in their circumstances, and not subjected to the odious tyranny of their
new Masters, who obliged them (at that time) to pay treble taxes -

We expected to have remained at the house allotted for us about one mile
from Mr. Pleasants, and as the time of our exchange was incertain we had
some thoughts of employing ourselves in the Garden, but on the

26th ~ A Captain Upshaw, a curious Original, arrived with an order for our
removal to Chesterfield, and on the 28.th having taken a reluctant leave
of our kind and sensible Quaker, we set out for Richmond -

As I have a great propensity to strike out of the common road, and
dont always take the necessary precautions for getting into it again, I
this day followed my inclination and having the Surgeon with me we got into
a bye road which we followed, and not getting sight of people or dwellings for
a long time, added 13 miles to our days march, & did not reach Richmond
till one o'clock the next Morning - The out Sentries would not suffer us
to go into town, nor would they call to the guard so we lay on the ground
till the relief came -