[Rhode Island] 12th [October]—Thick, cloudy weather, and some rain. Wind E.S.E.
About 3 o'Clock this morning the guard in the battery at Fogland ferry heard some boats rowing down the Seconnet, and altho they could hear the men in them speak, they couid not discover them. A Shot was fired towards the place where they were heard, in order to give notice to the Kingsfisher to look out.
There was no appearance of them this morning.