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Octr.
Saturday 25
Billingsfort SW ½ S ½ a Mile.
At 10 AM the Rebels came down with their Galleys & Boats to the Augusta's Wreck Fir'd many Guns at them as did the Liverpool & Cornwallis. At 11 the Sigl was made on board the Isis for all Lieutenants, ½ past 11 Weigh'd, run further down & Anchor'd with the Sheet Anchor in 5 fm: & veer'd to ⅓ of...
Date: 25 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Oct 77
Saturday 25
Do. [at Single <anchor> abreast of the middle of Tencham <Tinicum Island>]
AM at 7 came down Sundry Rebel Gallies & boats to plunder the Wreck1 on whom our Ship fired which made them retreat
Do.
Little Wd. & Cloudy mid & latter fresh breezes & small rain PM Employed Occasionally
Date: 25 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
at 8 [AM] Receiv'd Orders to get 4 of the lower Deck Guns into the Gun Boat 1 [At] 10 Three of the Flat Boats Return'd from Duty [At] 12 [Noon] Do Weather [Thick Cloudy with Some Rain] [At] 2 [PM] Modt. & Calm at 3 got in the 4 lower Deck Guns at 4 the Flat Boats went up with Provisions for the Army Do. Receiv'd on board 220 men Officrs &Ca...
Date: 25 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty will be informed by my last Letter of the 28th: of August,1 of the Arrival of the Fleet at the Head of Chesepeak-Bay, and Debarkation of the Army the 25th: in the River Elk.
The Provision, Military Stores and Baggage required, having been landed under the Direction of Captain Duncan by the 7th. of the next Month...
Date: 25 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
I am favoured with your letter1 in answer to my last,2 containing your sentiments upon the Matters reccomended to your consideration
Being much pressed in time yesterday I could not wait to have the pleasure of seeing you And therefore desired Captn. Hammond to mention my wishes about the position of the Ships, And trial to be made for widening the Channel through...
Date: 25 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
I beg leave to acquaint their Lordships that this comes by His Majesty's Ship pallas, who with the armed Ship Bute sails from hence to morrow with the Trade to Bluefields, and from thence to proceed with the Convoy to England and I have given Captn. Cotton my usual Order to Keep in company with the worst sailing Ships; Nothing has occur'd since my last to their Lordships by the...
Date: 25 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
October
Saturday 25th
At the Pitch Kettle Moorings in English Harbour Antigua Fresh Breezes and some Calms, Receiv' d 1659 Galls. of Rum. Came in His Majesty's Brig Sandwich from Dominica. In her Passage here under Guadalupe Met with a Schooner American Privateer of 10 Guns, which attack'd her, & engaged very close for 2 hours the Privateer throwing 2 Stinkpots...
Date: 25 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
A few days since a Privateer Brig, called the Revenge belonging to this Port, brought in here a large Brig called the Venus of Liverpoole, which she retook ten leagues to the Windward of Martinique.1
The Venus had been fitted out last Spring from Liverpoole for the Green land fishery, from whence she was returning laden with blubber when she was taken in the month of August last in the...
Date: 25 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
... by which means I have got the Ship2 ready for the Sea (there being nothing to take in at this present time but the Sea provisions the powder & a few Small Stores)—yet for want of money we are Obliged to put off the discharged men with Tears in their eyes & are unable to Enter new men haveing no money Either to pay the former or ingage the Latter
The incessant Complaints I...
Date: 26 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
... The Situation of the Enemy being very different from what you must have supposed at the Time of writing me will of Course occassion some Alteration in the Measures you proposed to pursue against them. On the 23d their Fleet fell down from Saagertjes1 where they had for some Time lay to Kingston, came too there that Evening & next Morning came under Sail passed down the River...
Date: 26 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Octr 1777
Sunday 26
[off Puloples Isld.]1
at 10 AM Weighd and Stood Down the River in Co the Gally2 at Noon Past Fort Montgomery
Steering Down the River
The first Part Fresh Breezes & Cloudy Middle & Latter attended with Rain at 4 PM Joind HM Gally the Spitfire and Armed Sloop Hotham and Friendship Transport at 8 Came too Small B...
Date: 26 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
October 1777
Sunday 26
Employed turning down the River
[AM] at 7 Weigh'd and Came to Sail down the River at 9 Anchor'd off Plank Point1 in 8 fms. Water
At an Anchor off Plank Point
Fresh breezes and Cloudy at Noon Weigh'd and Came to Sail, bringing up the Rear of the Fleet at 6 [PM] Anchor'd off Spiken devel Creek2 with the Bt. Br....
Date: 26 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
October 1777
Sunday 26
Laying off Pecks Kill in the North River.
(AM) at 3 passed Terry Town a Transpt. a Ground with 3 Gallies at Anchd. alongside1 at 7 came too with the small Bower in 7 fm. water little above Spite Divel Creek2 found riding her[e] his Majestys Ship Mercury & 2 Transports came on board Captn. Stanhope...
Date: 26 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
October 1777
Sunday 26
At a Single Anchor of Fort Montgommery and Clinton at 8 AM the Transports came down the River with the Mercury, and all the Troops came off from Fort Montgommery and Clinton, at 10 Fird a Gun and made the Sign1 to get under way, do: came to Sail with the Transports and Small Craft at Noon Stoney point WNW, and Planks pt. 1...
Date: 26 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
I had the Honor of proceeding by your Orders with the Troops under my Command on the 15th. Inst: and destroyed all the Enemys Vessels and Houses till our Arrival off Esopus on the 17th,1 and upon my Reconnoitring the Rebel Situation there, I perceived a Battery of 5 Pieces of Cannon with a Breast Work lined with Troops; and also a Work with nine Pieces more, It...
Date: 26 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
As soon as we had the Honour of receiving your Letter of Yesterday, we ordered exact Returns to be immediately made of every Man on Board the Frigates Washington & Effingham; these Returns we have enclosed for your Inspection.
We have the fullest Conviction of the necessity there is to exert every Power for the Defence of the Pass near Fort Mifflin, & happy should we be; could we furnish...
Date: 26 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
[October] 26th. Wind at N.E. and thick moist weather. An Agent of Transports arrived before day from the Fleet with 24 flat bottomed boats with provisions. This evening returns leaving 8. This night went the mail for England but not yet to sail. This day the marines of the Fleet took possession again of Billingsport in New Jersey.
Date: 26 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
... I am Clearly of Opinion if we had a Commodore who would do his Duty, it would be impossible for the Enemy ever to get Possession of this fort, without we are properly guarded the Enemy may be with us before we can form. the Channell which they are to Cross is So narrow, in the Night they may bring their Boats & Embark opposite to us without our Seeing them. the Baron1 has just...
Date: 26 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Vous aures la bonte d'informer Son Exçellence que j'ai reçu aujourd'hui l'ammunition, que le LColonel Schmidt avait demandé, et que j'ai fait l'arrangement de prendre autant icy qu'il ne nous manque pas clans une attaque, et que le reste doit être donné a notre flotte pour le garder.
J'ai fait travailler toujours, pour garantir les lieux foibles autant qu'il, est possible, j'avancerois mieux Si...
Date: 26 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
I have been absent from this Place for some Time up to Burlington, Borden Town & Trenton, after necessaries for the Fleet, and to hurry the Commissaries1 in this Duty—Last Monday Evening2 was returning, but when I got within two Miles of Coopers Ferry, I was informed the Enemy had just landed a Number of Troops, which obliged me to return; by which I lost, by all...
Date: 26 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10