Do [Sandy Hook] No 86°40 Et Dist 40 Leags
at 8 A M spoke wt the Renown pr Sigl at 10. Exercised Great Guns and small Arms and at noon the Renown and 20 sail in Compy
First part Light Breezes and Clear, middle and Latter light airs and Cloudy wt thick Foggy wr at times at 1 P M gave Chace to two sail to leewd one of which had an English Ensign in her main top mast shrouds Fird several Guns and at 3 joined them found them to be the Bristol Transport & the Hetty Snow the former having had an Action wt a Rebel Privateer and beat her off. Sent the surgeon on Board the Bristol to dress some of the men who had been wounded ½ pt fir'd a Gun and made the sigl to speak the Renown Repeated ditto who some time after bore down & joined us Received on Board 2 wounded soldiers from the Bristol Transport