[On board H.M. Sloop Swan]
Thursday Augst 1st [1776] Signal from the light House of a Fleet off. Thermometer 75—went ashore with Captn [James] Ayscough and descryd from the Light House forty and more Sail standing in for the Hook. bathd in the Sea. A M 40 Transport with the Army from South Carolina the Solebay Boreas and Armd vessells passed up to the Fleet. P M a Transport Ship with 130 Soldiers of the 50 Regt from Jamaica passd up to the Fleet.
1. Thomas Moffat's Diary, July 30, 1775 to October 8, 1777, LC.
