[On board the Prison Snow Mentor]
[New York] Mond: the 7th: [October] Our Chocalet was Spoil'd in the Morning for want of good Water, we had therefore but a very Indifferent Breakfast; I spent most of this Forenoon on Deck; At about 11 oClock Mr: [Joshua] Loring & another OfFr: came on Board & Order'd us to make Emediate preperation for Landing, there was also a Parole, or Writing prepared for us to Sign, which we all comply'd with, & the Field Officers first went ashore with Mr. Loring; After which I went up onto the Quarter Deck & Wrote some of the foregoing Lines, in Expectation soon to leave the Snow, not knowing what kind of Quarters or Treatment, will be next provided for us, yet hope that the Exchang will not be for the Worse.
About 4 oClock we were Landed with our Bagage on a Ferry Wharf near the Bair Market in N. York, where we wated for Orders, while near Sunset, when Mr. Loring Directed us to a very large House, on the West side of Broad Way, & South of Warren Street....
Having this Large House Assign'd us with a small Yard to Walk in &c, we sopose we have chang'd our Cituation Rather for the better, both on acct: of Noise & Crowd.