Febry 1776 Tuesday 13
Off Norfolk in Virginia. AM sent the Marines under Arms and 30 seamen with part of the 14 Regiment and a Larg Body of Volunteers to throw up an Intrenchment to Secure the Watering Place from the Depredations of the Rebels ー modr and fair at 6 AM returned the people with 4 Prisoners
Wednesdy 14
at 6 AM fird a Gun and made the signal for the Volunteers to repair on Shore ー sent the marines and seamen to work at the intrenchment Do Wr AM Returned ー the People 2
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/548.
2. Ibid., on February 15 and 16, 1776, the shore parties continued to work on the entrenchments and were withdrawn at nightfall.