New York Exchange Room June 14, 1775
[Extract]
A Connecticut sloop full of armed men have last Sunday Evening or rather Monday morning [June 12] carried all the salt Peter & stores from Turtle Bay. The Boats from the ships of war which pursued next day came within a mile of her; but the drum beat to arms her Crew got ready & the Boats then chose to return.
1. Hastings, ed., Clinton Papers, I, 203, 204.