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Octr 1777
Saturday 18
[off the Mouth of Esopus Creek]1
at 9 A.M. Weigh'd and Came to sail in Compy. with the Fleet2 at 11 Anchor'd with the small Bower in 4 Fm. Water & Sleepskine Isld. N.b.E. 1 Mile in Compy. as before at Noon a Detachmt. of the Army Landed to Destroy some Stores Fired 3 twenty four lb...
Date: 18 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Octr 1777
Saturday 18
[Aground on Esopus Flats]
at 1 AM Got off without any Damage save the loss of 14 Sweeps which were Broke in Shoreing the Vessell Up at 10 AM weighd & towed Up the river Gallys Transports &c in Co 1
Towing Up the River
Ditto Wr: [Moderate & fair] at 2 PM Came too Smal Bower in 7 fm. in Co as above off...
Date: 18 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
I am this Moment favoured with yours of this Morning. There is nothing New happened in this Quarter since I wrote you yesterday. The Enemy is 8 or 10 Miles above this burning away but as there are no Capital Settlements there on this Side the River & the Situation of the Country such as with my present Force I cant advance opposite to them with safety to my Artillery, I mean at present to...
Date: 18 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Yours of yesterday's Date I have Just Received. I am Sorry for the Loss of Kingston &c.
Five of the Enemy's Shipping Returned Down the River Last night without Doing any Damage Except fireing Some Cannon and small arms at our men and wounding one of ours on Board of a Ferry Boat.1
lnclosed I send you two Letters one from Genl. Dickison2 and the other from Genl. Winds...
Date: 18 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Oct. 18th.—Went to the mouth of Hollanders Creek this morning, where I had a view of the American and 4 of the British Fleets. The upper and lower British Batteries1 fired several times at the Mud Island Fort, but I believe without execution. The American Fort returned the fire. The lower English Battery fired 3 Bombs. The American Fleet lay nearly under Red Bank to be out of the way...
Date: 18 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
I wrote your Excelly. the Second day the Enemy open'd their Batteries.1 they have Since continued a fire from their two Bomb Batteries & Red Hot Balls from their work at the Pest Houses., as yet without much Damage. yesterday an unlucky Shell fell in a Barrack where the Soldiers had gone Contrary to Orders which kill'd One & wounded 3 others, two of them very...
Date: 18 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
... It is with concern we find that British property has lately been covered by conveyance in french bottoms; which practise pursued, and American Search disliked by France, it is obvious that the most vulnerable part of Great Britain her commerce, will be secured against us, and that, by the intervention of our professed friends. We desire therefore, gentlemen, that you will confer with the...
Date: 18 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
... Two of the Boats you are interested with Hammond in is Arriv'd, one on the Sea Coast on the Eastern Shore, and the other at South Quay North Carolina am told you will profet Considerably by them adventures, the Revenge Brought in a prize some time ago, both of them is sold. the General Lee did nothing, she is sold. the Harlequin is Arrivd at South Quay has done nothing the General Mercer...
Date: 18 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Permit me to inform you that there are two Men belonging to His Majesty's Ship under my command, who are at present prisoners in America and lately at Reading, their names are Murdo Byron and Daniel Fish; If Sir you can forward an exchange for these men, you will oblige me much, I ask this with the more confidence as the Poor men were not taken in an Armed Vessel, but Cast on Shore about a year...
Date: 18 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Sir/ His Excellency the President having Notified Capt. Blake (who is at present from Town) that a Briggt now off the Barr, by her behaviour is suspected to be an Enemy's Cruizer, you are desired to do all you can this Night towards preparing the Comet under your Command for going out to Sea Tomorrow, in quest of her—and as a Board of the Commissioners will be called to meet...
Date: 18 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
The Masters of the Vessels, in the enclosed List, had obtained their Letters of Marque, incurred the whole expence of their outfit, and were on the eve of Sailing before your Lordship's circular Letter of the 20th. of April 1777.1 Address'd to Sir Basil Keith, had, from the hurry incidental to a change of Office, been laid before me.2 I considered therefore the...
Date: 18 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Saturday arrived his Majesty's sloop of war, Diligence, Coats,1 Esq; commander, from a cruize. As did His Majesty's brigantine Porcupine, Thomas Cadogan, Esq; commander, from St. Augustine, from a cruize. Also a prize sloop and schooner, taken by the tender of His Majesty's ship Ælos, Christopher Atkins commander.2 And a prize schooner loaded with rice, &c. from Georgia...
Date: 18 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
I received your Excellencys letter dated the 8th Inst. and have upon the same Subject wrote to the Governor of Martinique upon a similar affair in favor of Mr. Cotó of that Island—In answer to your Excellency I admited per Chance or through inadvertence into this Port Captain White of an American Privateer, that he might succour himself in the urgent Necessity he...
Date: 18 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
I am informed there is coming into the Port under my Command a Brigantine belonging to the Expedition of your Honor, and respecting your dispatches it is not necessary said Brig should Anchor as also the three Sloops which with the frigate makes five, you are immediately to give orders that said Brig and the rest of the Vessells to retire not only from this Port but from the extremities of the...
Date: 18 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
I have been honored with your Letter this Morning, concerning some Vessels which have been seen off this Island. In answer to which I am to acquaint You that I know nothing of them, but should they be English Cruizers I can answer for their not coming into this Port, without they should follow American Privateers or Piratical Vessels. But I must beg leave to observe that while His Britannic...
Date: 18 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
I have the Honor to inform Your Excellency that Hugh Daveny a Deserter from the Rebels, (who has been some time with Lt. Genl. Burgoyne's Army) arrived here this Morning, and reports he left Sarahtoga on Thursday the 16th. instant before Day, where he was informed by General Burgoyne, that his Army was to surrender, and lay down their Arms between the Hours of...
Date: 19 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
This Day at 10 pm Weighed Anchor at Rowlands ferry and Beat Down towards fogland But Concluding not to go on We put away and Ran up the River again1 gave the Guard house one Bow Gun and Run Up and Came to anchor again &c
Date: 19 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
About 12 oClock last night, about 200 Rebels came forward on Rowland's neck, and fired at two Hessian Sentries posted at the bridge. The Sentries, and a patrole of Six men who happened to come up at that time, fired a good many shot at them, and then retired, at which time an 18 pr being fired from Windmill hill at the Rebels, they retired without firing another shot. Not less than 500...
Date: 19 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Octr 1777
Sunday 19
[Slepskine Isld. S.S.E. 2 Miles]
A.M. Lower'd Down the Main Yard to mend the Main Sail
Sleepskine Isld. SSE 2 Mile
Do. Weatherthese 24 Hours [Light Breezes and Vble] [PM] Sailmakers Empld. Repairg. the Main Sail sent the Boats on shore Mand & Arm'd ⅌ Signal to burn 2 Reble Vessels at 5 PM fired 5 four...
Date: 19 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
October 1777
Sunday 19
At an Anchor off West Point up Hudson's River
do. Weather [Moderate and Cloudy] at Noon Weighed and Came to Sail up the River.
Sailing up the River
Fresh Breezes and Cloudy at 2 P.M. Anchor'd off Polipus Island1 in 8 fms. Water and about the distance of 2 Cables lengths from the Cheavaux de Frize,2 New Windsor Church bearing...
Date: 19 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10