[Rhode Island] 19th July At 6 in the Evening a Rebel Galley came down from Providence towards Papasquash point, and fired three Cannon shot at The Lark. The ship got under way immediately and chaced her, but she run up towards Warren. When the Lark was returning near the Point, the Rebels began to fire at her from thence, which was briskly returned. She soon after anchored in her former Station. This Manoeuvre appears to have been entirely with a view to draw the ship near the point, that they might have a few shots at her. The Rebels have not had any Cannon on the point for some time past, so that the fire from thence was quite unexpected. One shot, an 18 pr struck the ship near the Larboard Main Chains, but did no damage.
1. Mackenzie's Diary, I, 155.