This morning we enter'd the mouth of Halifax, Harbour, as we pass'd up the Town has a very handsome appearance, at 12 O Clock we came to anchor near the Town & at Two, we went on shore. the land on which this Town is built rises gradually until it forms a beautiful eminence, call'd the Citadel-Hill, the Town is handsomely laid out, the buildingrs] are but small in general, at the upper end of the town there is a very good Dock yard, handsomely built with stone and lime, in which there are some handsome buildings, Major [Return Jonathan] Meigs & I waited on his Excellency Genl Howe this afternoon, with some dispatches from Genl Carleton.

June 1  Genl Howe after some Conversation desir'd us to wait on him again, on Monday Next, & he promis'd us he would inform us when and how we should have a passage to New England, I visited some officers, and others who were prisoners in Hallifax. Vizt Capt Mortingdell [Sion Martindale], of Rhode Island, who was taken in a privateer,² Lieut [william] Scott who was taken at Bunker Hill, the 17th of June last and a number of others amounting in the whole to 20 persons ー this day we took lodgings at one Riders Tavern.