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MSA SC 5796-10-15
Collection	Potomac History (PotomacHistory website) Collection
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Dates	1755
Medium	Original
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Storage	Contact the Department of Special Collections for location.
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Governor Sharpe in 1755 on his efforts to navigate the Potomac above tidewater: After this & fixing upon a proper Magazine for powder we set off to explore Potowmack River which proved from the number of shoals & falls to be of no Service in transporting either Artillery or other Baggage in our passage down ... (Archives of Maryland, 6: 168) I had the pleasure to see Sr J St Clair arrive also, after which we tarried there only one Day & in Order to examine the Channel of that River we came down Potowmack by water for the Distance of about 250 Miles, the many Falls & Shoals in that River will we find render the conveyance of Artillery & other Stores to the Camp by water impracticable... (Archives of Maryland 6: 186)

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