cherrystone

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Mr. Neale kindly offered to meet me at Cherrystone landing and take me to his house, but I shall decline in your favour.

From Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee by Lee, Robert Edward, General

We know that they have Cherrystone oysters, canvas-back ducks, terrapin, and peach brandy in their haversacks, and that they meant to ask us to join them.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

I then sailed for the eastern shore of Virginia, and at a place called Cherrystone traded off my damaged flour for a cargo of pears, with which I sailed for New York.

From Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton For Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (For Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail by Drayton, Daniel

It was on a dark evening that Webster left Cherrystone Lighthouse in Marshall's canoe, to make the voyage across the Chesapeake.

From The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, by Pinkerton, Allan

You will have to go to Norfolk, take the steamer to Cherrystone, where, I suppose, you can find a conveyance to Eastville.

From Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee by Lee, Robert Edward, General