At Single Anchor Off Staten Island.
at 5 AM Weigh'd and came to Sail in Co his Majestys Ship Rose, Tryal Schooner and the Shuldham, at 20 Minutes past 5 the Rebels Fir'd at us from a Battery on the Eastern Side of the River which we return'd. at 1/2 past [5] passed through the Channell on the East side of the Vessels &ca Sunk by the Rebels to block up the Channell between Geffery's Hook and Berdetts Mountain; several Shot was Fir'd [at] us from a Battery upon the Top of the Mountain, after we got through the Channell; At ½ past 6 Fir'd several Broad sides at some Gallies laying close into the Western Shore at 3/4 past 6 Commenced Firing at the Batteries upon York Island &ca at ½ past 7 Anchor'd off Staten Island with the Best Bower in 6½ Fam found riding here his Majesty's Ship Eagle Vice Adml Lord Howe, Chatham, Vice Adml Shuldham, Bristol, Comodore Sir Peter Parker and Preston Commodore Hotham wth a very large Fleet ok Men of War & Transports. In passing the Batteries Recd a Shot through the Longboat which sunk her, lost out of her the Stream Cable, a Hawser Oars &ca &ca