[Carpenters Island, Pa.]
November 2nd, 1777.—Things are pretty quiet except a little popping at the ferry on the Schuylkill between our advanced troops and some rebels on the other side. Six 24-prs. are come to Province Island from the Eagle man-of-war to make a battery against the fort1 which will be set about directly.2 A few cannon shot were fired by our ships at the rebel galleys this evening.
Downman, "Services of Lieut-Colonel Francis Downman," 209.
1. Fort Miffiin.
2. A battery to receive these cannon was constructed alongside the middle battery on Carpenters Island. According to Capt. John Montresor, three of these twenty-four pounders arrived at Carpenters Island on 1 Nov. The remaining three cannon arrived two days later. Montresor, Journals, 472-73.
