Monday July 29th The Latter Part of Last Week and the Beginning of this Three Row-Gallies from Connecticut, and Two from Providence arrived at New York.
This Day Two large Fire ships were ordered round into the North River. Three Gallies also put round info the Same River; and Captain [Theophilus] Stanton2 took out two Nine Pounders, and took in two eighteen Do and began to get in Readiness to move into the said River after them.
1. Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society (Hartford, 1899), VII, 179. Trumbull was chaplain of Colonel John Douglass's Connecticut State Regiment.
2. Commander of the Connecticut galley Shark.
