Sepr 1776 Wednesdy 25th
At Single Anchor off Do [Bedloe's Island] At 9 AM unmoor'd Ship took up the Best Bower & hove into ½ a Cable on the Small Bower At Noon Punished William Lacey and Dougal M'Kenzie Seamen with a Dozen lashes each for Drunkeness The first part Light Breezes & Clear, Middle & latter Modr & Clear, At 4 PM Weighed & Run up near the Town, At 6 Anchor'd with the Bt Br in 11 fm water Veered away & Moored Ship a Cable each way when Moored the Flagstaff on the Fort at New York EbN¼N Bedlows Island SWbW Bargan Church NW¼W2 at 12 Anchor'd here, the Tartar
1. NMM, Admiralty L/E/11.
2. "In the afternoon, the Eagle moved up near to the Fort & Town; The Admiral [Howe] having taken a House, designing to make up his Winter-Quarters in New York." Tatum, ed., Serle's Journal, September 25, 1776, 113.