Happy to present the Journal of Nicholas Cresswell with the Thomas Balch Library as part of First Friday in Leesburg. Displays discussed his travels in the Indian Country, his experience with slavery in the colonies, and his growing distaste for the independence movement which had cast him as a Tory/Loyalist to the crown. Great primary source material for Loudoun County in the Revolutionary War.

https://www.loudountimes.com/news/community/historic-diaries-offer-window-into-loudouns-past/article_d3e432bd-c016-4db4-b81d-d57be6c0832d.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawOmuQ9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFlT2V3R1g5REdscE5tMTJhc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHjGP3vQJ5ajNuNlDHbb9HHSjmlqVjSXcgLB5x336V1N5gqGd5O4Nrf6TS0hn_aem_zuv0O-2JcDLzOVzJ_H5PDg