Series: 3 N (Volume 3)
Scope and Content Note: William Croghan's manuscript diaries, November 28, 1779 - May 4, 1780, and February 7 - April 8, 1781. The earlier entries give detailed coverage of the march of his regiment from New Jersey to South Carolina and of his participation in the siege of Charleston, accompanied by a summary of events in Charleston in February and March prior to his arrival there on March 30. Although he was captured during the siege, no entries describe this event or his months as a British prisoner. The few sheets for 1781 describe his trip from Charleston to Virginia after his release. Both diaries contain accounts of social activities he enjoyed with the Marquis de Lafayette and members of the Washington, Ball, and Lewis families in Fredericksburg. On February 11 and 22, 1780, he also recorded civic celebrations in Fredericksburg and Richmond, Virginia, in honor of George Washington's forty-eighth birthday.