August 1776 Friday 30
At single Anchor in Flushing Bay A M Moor'd wth stream Cable sent the Boat on s[h]ore Brought off 2 Head of cattle sent one on board the Brune Light Breezes & Cloudy Wr at 2 PM Took a Pettyauger from N York
Saturday 31
Light Breezes & Fair Wr at 12 PM sent the Barge Man'd & Arm'd up too Flushing Town took a Sloop2
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/637.
2. Ibid., the following day the sloop was manned by a petty officer and six men, apparently to be used as a tender.
