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Box xii, Packet 39-18
Eighteenth Camp at Snowden's Iron Works [Laurel, Maryland]. 22-25 July 1782. Thirteen and a half miles from the previous camp at Bladensburg. Snowden's Iron Works was on the patuxent River. Major Thomas Snowden's house, shown here, is "Montpelier," still standing on present State Route 197. Verger's journal (p. 160) designates the camp as "Rose's Tavern," also shown on the map.