Sailing up the River Delaware—[anchored in The Narrows] at 6 AM Weigh'd & came to Sail in Comp^y. with y^e Brune &c.
Sailing up the River Delaware—
Mod^te & thick W^r. [PM] The Brune orderd us to stand in between Port Pen & Reedy Island & on our approach a Schooner & several Gun Boats went out at y^e Opposite End of y^e Passage¹ they sat fire to a Transport they had taken,² they fir'd several Shot at us from a Battery, which we return'd with several Broadsides as we Pass'd, gave Chace to y^e Schooner & Gun Boats; The Gun Boats row'd within the Shoals; got y^e Schooner after firing several Shot at her & she at us. we drove her on shore in the bight of Newcastle & on y^e Experiments coming up sent our Boats & got her off, She prov'd to be the Alert Arm'd Schooner which had been taken a Day or too before,³ when we chac'd y^e Schooner we left y^e Brune Firing on their Battery, at 6 came too w^th. the stream Anchor in 5½f^m. as did the Convoy.