[Newport] November. 4.
This Morng about VII o'Clock an imprudent Man from the End of the Long Wharf insulted the Men o' War which lay at a few Rods Distance. One of them fired two Canon near him but did not touch him. They were four pounders. One shot entered a Store full of screwed Hay: another passed thro' the upper part of a large house on Gravelly Point, . . . No Person hurt. The shot came from the Bomb Brig, Capt Greaves.2 The Man was taken up & committed to Goal; & then carried to Head Quarters.
1. Dexter, ed., Diary of Ezra Stiles, I, 631.
2. Lieutenant Thomas Graves, R.N.
