May 1778 Tuesday 19th
At Anchor in Buzzard’s Bay. Kittyhunk Island WSW Pennekece Do. WNW.1 at 10 AM hove up the Bt: Br: & came to Sail, at 11 came thro’ Quick’s Hole, in Company with the Haerlem,2 at Noon abreast of Robinson’s Hole in the Vineyd: Sound.
Sailing up the (Martha’s Vineyard) Sound. Fresh Breezes and hazey Wr. at 1 PM came too with the Small Br. in 4 fms. Water in Tarpaulin Cove, the Wt: part SWbS and the Fort NNW, sent the Boats mann’d & arm’d on Shore to destroy the Fort and Barracks, at 4 the Boats retd: weigh’d & came to Sail, at 8 came too with the Bt: Br: in Quick’s Hole, veer’d away & moor’d a Cable each Way,
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/1017, part 6, fols. 242–43.
1. That is, Cuttyhunk I. and Penikese I., Mass.
2. H.M. armed sloop Haerlem, Lt. John Knight, commander.