Journal of H.M. Brig Diligent, Lieutenant Thomas Farnham, October 17, 1777

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Oct^r1777
Friday 17

D^o [off Eusopus Creek]¹

at 9 AM weighd in C^o as Above² & Stood Do Up the River

D^o [Working Up the River]

Moderate & fair at 5 PM Came too Smal Bower in 7 f^m off Red Hook the troops landed & sett fire to some Mills, Houses, Barns &c³ Weighd & endeavourd to stand in Shore to Cover the landing Ran aground on the Edge of the Flatts⁴ at 8 PM the troops reembarqued

D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/4163.

1. Rondout Creek.

2. H.M. galleys Crane, Dependence, and Spitfire.

3. William Smith noted in his memoirs on 17 Oct.: "Bob G. Livingston's House burnt. Widow [Margaret] Livingston's Mill at Sawyer's Creek [Saw Kill Creek] Widow Ten Broeck's Buildings." Historical Memoirs of William Smith, July 1776-July 1778, William H. W. Sabine, ed. (New York, 1958), vol. 2, 238.

4. Esopus Flats.

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1777 October 17

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American Theatre from October 1, 1777, to December 31, 1777

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