[Sandy Hook, N.J.] TUESDAY, April 7th.
Two or three small armed Vessels, with Troops on board arrived last night from Egg Harbor, where they had destroyed some Salt Works, erected by the Rebels, and other Stores, to the Value of near £30,000, without the least Inconvenience.1 Enterprizes on the Coast, by small Detachments, would annoy the Rebels exceedingly, and with great Facility on our Part....
Edward H. Tatum, Jr., ed., The American Journal of Ambrose Serle, Secretary to Lord Howe, 1776-1778 (San Marino, Ca.: The Huntington Library, 1940), 282–83.
1. For more on the British raid on American saltworks at Squan River Inlet, see Capt. Boyd Porterfield to Lt. Gen. Henry Clinton, this date, above, and Extract of a Letter from Kildare, Monmouth County, N.J., 9 Apr., below.
