July 1778 Monday 6th.
do. [Sandy Hook] N5°E Dist 55 Lgs.
AM at 1 lost sight of them,1 AM Chaced 2 Sail in the NW, at 7 brt. too a Privateer Brig & her Prize sent the first Lieut.2 in the Brig to New York, with dispatches for Lord Howe, at Noon saw the French Fleet to the Wt.ward
C, Henlopen N24W Dist 23 Lgs.
Do. Wr. [Modt. & fair] [PM] Observing the Motions of the French Fleet, at 8 they bore WbS 3 or 4 Leags. brt. too, at 11 made sail,
D, UkGrNMM, ADM L/M/27. Journal kept by Lt. George Countess, second lieutenant of H.M. frigate Maidstone.
1. Armed brig tender Stanley and H.M. armed sloop Haerlem.
2. Lt. James Vashon.
