March 1778 Sunday 1
Abrest of Christeen Creek1 First part fresh Breezes and Cloudy with some snow midle And latter moderate [AM] Sailing up the River and Anchord Occassionaly in Company as above2 Runing thro. the Cheaveux de Frize First and middle part fair weather Latter Snowy At 2 P.M. Anchord of[f] the North End of philadelphia Disembarked the Troops3 Read the Articals of war to the Co.
D, UkLPR, Adm. 52/1676, pt. 2, fol. 35.
1. Christiana Creek, Del.
2. See Master's Journal of H.M. Galley Cornwallis, Lieutenant Thomas Spry, 25 Feb., above.
3. Two light infantry battalions on flat boats which Cornwallis had escorted down the Delaware to Salem, N.J.
