At 9 A M Cast off from the Pierse, with a fresh Breeze at NW, & Run Down to Reedy Island, the[re] Being much Ice In the River was Oblidge to haul In to the Pierse and was there Detain'd by the Ice till the 11th of February Employ'd her[e] Wooding & Wartering the Sloop Providence & Fly Join'd the Fle[et] since we left Philadelphia & gott 40 Men for the Fleet from Rhode Island in the Fly.
