At a Single Anchor of[f] Fort Montgommery and Clin­ton in Hudsons River

at 7 AM sent on Shore with the Commodores Master, our Car­penter, Mids and 20. Men to help get up the Chain and Boom, which the Rebels had Run across the River, the Master went up the River to see if the Guns could be savd of the Rebel Frigates,¹ which they Burnt

[PM] Mod^t. and Cloudy W^r. came down all the small Craft and Anch^d here