April 1776 Moor'd in Graves End Bay.
Sunday 14 AM at 5 Up Yards & Top Masts. at 6 Unmoor'd & hove short on the Bt Br at 10 Weigh'd & drop'd further to the So ward at 11 came to with the small Br in 7 fm Water Veer'd to ¾ of a Cable. Ships Co put to ¾ Allowance of all Species Moderate & fair P M at 2 hove up & came to Sail at 4 in coming thro' the Narrows was fired at with Muskets by a Number of Rebels, fir'd at them 2 eighteen pdrs at 5 came to with the Bt Br in 16 fm in Gravesend Bay Veer'd to ½ a Cable Coney Island ESE Gravesend Church NE & the point of Long Island NbW