December 1775 Sunday 17
Moor'd between the Battery & Oyster Island AM Arrived H.M. Ship Phoenix Light Breezes & fine Wr Sail'd into the East River the Phoenix & the Prestons Tender 2
Monday 18
At Single Anchor in the No River AM Clear'd Hawse Fresh Gales & Cloudy PM Clear'd Hawse, sent the Brig loaden with Salt to Boston under Convoy of the George Sloop 3
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/67.
2. Ibid., the Preston's tender had arrived from Boston on December 10, 1775.
3. Ibid., the journal entry for December 15 notes: "PM detain'd a Brig loaded with Salt." The brig St. Helena was also mentioned in Captain Vandeput's letter of December 18 to Admiral Graves.
