March 1776 Tybee Light house E½S 1 Mile & Graham's house ½ Mile off Shore
Monday 25 Fresh Gales and fair Wear at ½ past 1 p m saw a brisk fire of Musquetry on Tybe Island between a party of Six Marines belonging to the Symmetry and a great number of the Rebels. Do we fired three Broadsides on the Rebels and dispersed them, the Lost on our side was 1 man killed, two Wounded and one taken prisoner, the Rebels Lost uncertain.
1. PRO, Admiralty 52/1662.