[New York] Thursday 30th [January].
A Ship of War (the Greyhound) with 13 Sail of Transports, & 2000 Troops on broad [i.e., board] came down Connecticut Sound this Morning. The Rebels about W. Chester instantly scampered away, from an evident Belief, that they were intended to land & cut off their Retreat.
1. Tatum, ed., Serle's Journal, 181.
