[New York] August 1st.ー About 30 sail of British ships arrived at the Hook. Three or four more row-gallies went up the Hudson. In bringing the hulks, chevaux-de-frise, &c. round from the East River, to the Hudson, a sloop sunk, not far from the Grand Battery.
1. William Abbatt, ed., Memoirs of Major-General William Heath by Himself (New York, 1901), 43. Hereafter cited as Abbatt ed., Heath Memoirs.
