[On board H.M. Sloop Swan]
July 11th [ 1776] morning Thermometer 71 Wind E Several people came from Long Island (among whom was ———— Fanning) 2 and proceeded up to the admiral and General also came in from Delawar bay the Kingfisher Captn Graham [Alexander Graeme] with 2 Brigts and 2 Sloops prizes laden with flour bread &c from Philadelphia. He also destroyed an armd Brigt with military Stores and 400 barrells of gun powder. 3 P M the Mercury Pacquett for Falmouth weighd and saild under convoy of the Senegal Captn [Roger] Curtis.
1. Thomas Moffat's Diary, LC.
2. Edmund Fanning, private secretary to Governor Tryon.
3. The brig Nancy, destroyed off Cape May on June 28, 1776, although 265 of her 386 half barrels of gunpowder had been taken ashore. The diary does not mention that the Kingsfisher lost her long boat, with a master's mate and six men, when the Nancy was blown up.
