[Isle aux Noix]
3rd September sixteen arm'd vessels and four hundred. Batteaux, fill'd with Rebels appear'd off Point au Fer, the entrance into Lake Champlainfrom the Northward.
1. "Diary of Joshua Pell, Jr., an Officer of the British Army in America 1776-1777, " Magazine of American History, II, part 2, 45. Hereafter cited as "Diary of Joshua Pell, Jr.," Magazine of American History.