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This Day between the Hours of ten & Eleven oClock, Hove in Sight a fleet of Eleven Sail of large Vessels Square Rigged Supposing them to be the Enemys fleet, Standing in between Montauk &Rhode Island, and thinking it a matter of the Greatest Importance that your Excellency Should have the Earliest Notice thereof, I hereby Send my Son as Express with these few lines, and think these Ships...
Date: 2 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I thought proper to Acquaint your Honour of the Movements of the Enemys Fleet Mention'd in my last — yesterday about two OClock they Hauled up their Courses and kept Hovering Round Untill about Sun Set When they made Sail for Block Island and Came to Anchor on the West Side — this morning about 7 OClock they all Came to Sail (Eleven in Number) and Stood Westward between Long Island and the Main,...
Date: 3 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Yesterday morning a Small Sloop Commanded by ———— Johnson Bound from Bedford to N. London Was Drove on Shore a Little to the East of my House, by one of the Ministerial Cruisers, which Anchored not a Musket Shot from the Shore, and kept up a Constant fire for Some time,2 previous to which A nine pound field piece belonging to this town was moved to the Shore on the appearance of wch...
Date: 6 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9