Remarks onboard the Somerset Friday Novemr: 14th 1777 Lying off Billings Fort
[At] 12 [Midnight] Cloudy Weather [At] 8 [A.M.] Do Wr at 10 Got in the Quarter Deck Guns [At] 12 [Noon] Do Wr Turn'd all hands to Quarters [At] [PM.] 2 Modt. & Cloudy at 6 PM Sent the Master of the Somerset Pilot & the Master of the Roebuck to Sound & Place Bouys on the Westn. Channell Contigious to Hog Island in Order to acertain how near the Somerset might Approach with Safty to Fort Island.