July 1776 Tue[s]day 30th
Moored off Staten Island The first part light airs & Cloudy inclinable to Calm, Middle & Latter Light Breezes & fair At 1 P M Sailed hence the Merlin Sloop At 2 Sent a Lieutenant to meet a Flag of Truce from New York 2 at 11 heared the Report of Several Musquets from New.York
1. NMM, Admiralty L/E/11.
2. ",..Flag of Truce came from the Town with. Letters. The two Persons came on board; one a Mr Tracy of Newbury Port, in Mass. Bay, and the other in a Uniform, tolerably neat & decent, " Tatum, ed., Ser/e's Journal, 50.
