Remarks off Flushing Bay Long Island Sound Saturday Augt 3 1st 1776
4 [A. M.]
Little wind and Fair Wr
6
Calm the Brune Made Our Signal for a Lieut
8
at ½ past Hove short Recd some Marines from the Brune and Niger Weighd and Came to sail
10
Came too off White stone point Sent the Boats Mannd & Armd on Shore to take off Cattle &c Erom [Francis] Lewis's House at White stone2
4 [P. M.]
Light Breezes and Fair Weather Empd taking off the Stock and Cattle, Lewis's House at White stone.
1. PRO, Admiralty 52/1775.
2. Lewis was a New York delegate in the Continental Congress.