[September 6-7]2
We at this time had information of a Company of Tories that was stationed at Sauteunt [Setauket] L. Island we collected about 60 whale Boats and manned them and cros'd over the Sound in a heavy blow from N. West in the night in Company with the Armed schooner Spy of 10 Guns. Capt. [Robert] Niles and arrived at the Island about 11 P.M. and divided our force so as to take their whole force by surrounding their Guard house and Head Quarters at the same time. On our arrival at the Guard house numbers fled to Head Quarters where the whole was taken. We killed 13 of the Enemy and brought off 40 prisoners and made prizes of two Sloops ー we had one man killed, none wounded, and the day following we returned to New Haven ー3
1. Diary of Christopher Vail, LC.
2. Mackenzie's Diary, I, 40, for September 7, 1776: "A few of the Rebels landed about 20 miles to the Eastward last night, and after committing some outrages upon the loyalists, went off again, taking with them some Cattle, and other matters."
3. See also Lieutenant Colonel Henry Beekman Livingston to Robert R. Livingston, September 25, 1776.
