New Point Comfort WbN 5 or 6 Miles
at 5 A.M. weigh'd pr Signl ½ past 6 the Roebuck md our Signl to come within hail — N.B. Hoisted a White Flagg at our Main Top Mast Head as a direction to the Fleet — Saw several Galleys in Shore one of which fired two Shot at us, at 8 Anchor'd with the small Bower in 13 fm veerd to ½ of a Cable Smith's Point WNW great Wiccomacoa SW½W Watts Isld NEbE &Point Lookout NEbN ½ past 8 departed this Life Jams Clegg Marine at Noon pass'd by us the Adml & Fleet —
Fresh breezes & cloudy Wr at 5 P.M. committed the Body of the above deceas'd to the Deep