Moored in Halifax Harbor
AM at ½ past 8 fir'd a Gun & made the Sign! for all Petty Officers at 10 sail'd hence His Majs Ship Lizard — at ½ past 11 fired a Gun & made the Signal for all Captains.
First pt dear W r latter cloudy with Snow — at 2 P M fired a Gun as a Signal for the Milford to fire Minute Guns — at ½ past 3 fir'd another Gun as a Signal for the Milford to desist firing havg buried Capt. [John] Burr