[New York] Saturday, 29th June.
This morning at 9 o'Clock, we discovered our Signals hoisted on Staten Island, signifying the appearance of a fleet. At 2 o'Clock P.M. an express arrived, informing a fleet of more than one Hundred Square rig'd vessels, had arrived and anchored in the Hook ー This is the fleet which we forced to evacuate Boston; & went to Halifax last March ー where they have been waiting for reinforcements, and have now arrived here with a view of puting their Cursed plans into Execution....Expresses are this day gone to Connecticut, the Jerseys, &c., to hurry on the Militia.
1. Worthington C. Ford, comp. and ed., Correspondence and Journals of Samuel Blachley Webb (New York, 1893), I, 150, 151. Hereafter cited as Ford, ed., Webb Papers.
