D^o [At Anchor Off Billingsport in the Delaware.—]
at 7 AM the Wind being athwart  the  Channell we warped over to the Weather Shore ready to come to Sail, at ½ past 7 the Issis, Roebuck, Liverpool & Pearl, ran up the Eastern Channell close to the Cheveaux de frize, and soon after the Somersett following them, and began firing on the enemy's Works on Mud Island, and their Battery on the Jersey's,¹ at 10 we weighed and ran close up to the Fort on Mud Island having a Sloop with 3 Eighteen pounders on Board to Assist us,² moored Head and Stern and began firing on the Fort, the Rifle men in the Tops doing good execution, the enemy fired at us from the Fort, the Gallys and floating Battery.—

Fireing on Mud Fort
Mod^t. & fair Weather, fireing on Mud Fort, the Rebel Galleys & One of their Floating Batterys hauled over from Red Bank to Assist their Fort, & fired very heavy on us, at 6 PM the Fort was Silenced, and at 7 the Galleys & floating Battery retreated to Red Bank, we lost in this Action One Mid^n. & 2 Men belonging to His Maj^s Ship Eagle, and four of our Own men wounded together with One of the Riflemen, Our Hull rec^d. Several Shott all above Water, the Masts Yards, & Rigging much Cut, at 11 PM the Rebels sett fire to the Fort