Remarks off Flushing Bay Long Isld Sound Sunday Septr 1st 1776
4 [A. M.]
Mod and Fair sent the Boats as Before ー2 they Found in a Store belonging to Frans Lewis one of the Rebel Congress 19500 Wt of Tea and a Great Quantity of English and Scotch Goods
10 [A. M.]
Boats Empd getting do on Board ー pr Order of Captn [James] Ferguson3 Light Breezes and Fair W. at ½ past 1 Weighd and Turnd up to the Brune and Niger and Come too wt the Bt Br Veerd to ⅓ of a Cable. ー at 6 Weighd and Run down to Whitestone and Came too abreast of Lewis's Houseー
1. PRO, Admiralty 52/1775.
2. The boats had been employed the previous day in taking off cattle.
3. Commanding H.M.S. Brune.