Last Tuesday Morning about 200 of the Enemy landed (under Cover of a Row Galley1 and two armed Sloops2) on Greenwich Point, with a Design of destroying a Quantity of Flour that lay on the Beach above the Point, and burning a Row Galley that was fitting in the Harbour. A party of fifteen Men from Colonel Meig's3 Regiment,4 under the command of Lieutenants Lay5 and Shaylor,6 reinforced by a few of the Inhabitants, attacked them, prevented their destroying the Flour, retook a Number of Cattle and Sheep, extinguish'd the Fire they had set on the Galley and compelled them to embark in the greatest Confusion, without the Loss of a Man either killed or wounded, on our side.
Connecticut Gazette; and the Universal Intelligencer, 10 Apr. 1778. Greenwich is now Old Greenwich, Conn.
1. H.M. galley Dependence. See Master's Journal of H.M. Galley Dependence, 23 and 24 Mar., above.
2. H.M. brig Halifax and tender of H.M. sloop Raven. See Journal of H.M. Sloop Raven, 23 and 24 Mar., above.
3. Col. Return Jonathan Meigs.
4. 6th Connecticut Continental Regiment.
5. 1st Lt. Asa Lay.
6. 2d Lt. Joseph Shaylor.
