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Feby 1777
Saturday 8
Spiting Devil Creek SSE 2 Miles
At 7 AM Weigh'd and row'd up the river in Company the George Sloop at 9 A. M. Discover'd 5 Reb[el] Boats Crossing the river full of Arm'd Men fir [e] d 4 thirty two Pounders at them with round and Grape to bring them too Seeing they Could not Escape us they row'd in for the Jersey Shore and hauld their Boats up Do sent Our Boat and Georges...
Date: 8 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Feby 1777
Saturday 22
Do [Fort Lee NW 1 Mile]
Modt and Hazy Wr these 24 Hours at 4 PM a Large Field of Ice Drove foul of us which set us on shore and sent the spa[illegible] Cables on Shore and made it fast to a Tree to hinge her till the Ice Drove past at 9 P.M. fired 4 four Pounders with round Shot at a Pty of Rebles which Attempted to cut our shore fast at 10 PM the Tide of Flood being...
Date: 22 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
July 1777
Thursday 24
Phillips borough ESE ¼ a Mile
at 9 A.M. the Boat Retd by which we receiv'd the fol lowing Provisns viz Bread 2 Casks Rum 1 Butter 2 Firkins receiv'd a New Deck Takle Talld at IO A.M. fired 2 four Pounders with round and Grape at a Party of Rebles at Phillips Burrough
Light Breezes and vble at 6 P.M. Weigh'd and row'd up the River at 10 P.M. Anchd with the Best Bower in...
Date: 25 January 1777
Volume: Volume 9
August 1777
TallardsPoint E.N.E. 1 Mile
Wednesday 6
at 1 A.M. Anchd with Best Bower in 5 Fm Water in Compy as before.
Light Breezes and fair Weather those 24 Hours at 2 P.M. Weigh'd and gave Chase to 4 Reble Vessels fired 5 Twenty four Pdrs with round shot and 8 four Pdrs with Do at 6 P.M. Verplanks point NbE ½ a Mile the Rebles Open'd a Battery on us by which we receiv'd 4 Shot in the...
Date: 6 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
August 1777
Spiting Devil Creek SE 1 Mile
Wednesday 13
A.M. Receivd on Board a New Main Yard from the Careening Yard Do Retd the Old Main Yard to the Mercury for a Fire Boom P Order of Capt Ommany bent the Main sail and Sway'd up the Main Yard.
Modt and fair these 24 Hours Empld Occasy at 4 P.M. Weigh'd and Came to Sail at 6 Anchor'd with the Small Bower at 7 Rec'd on Board a Foraging...
Date: 14 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Septr 1777
Wednesday 10
Spiting Devil Creek SE 1 Mile
A.M. Empld Washg and Cleang the Hold Do Wash'd the Decks with Vinegar.
Fresh Gales and Cloudy Weathr these 24 Hours P.M. Empld Clearg the Hold to receive Troops on Board
Thursday 11
A.M. Compleated our Water.
Fresh Breezes and hazy Weathr at 4 PM receiv'd on Board a Spye that was taken Reconoitring Our Lines at 5 P.M. hanged him Pr...
Date: 12 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
March 1778
Mondy. 23d:
Entrance, Cow Neck Bay E ½ S 2½ miles—off Loyd's beech ½ Cable Dist—[Long Island]
AM. weighed & rowed out of Loyds Neck harbor. anchored with the Best bower in 4 fm. Wr. veered to 1/3 of a Cable—Exercised Great Guns & small arms
Loyd's Head1 NNW 1½ Miles
Calm the first Pt. with fair Wr....
Date: 23 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
March 1778
Tuesday 24th:
Loyd's Head1 NNW 1½ Miles—
at 6. AM. landed 43. marines from the different vessells, & 20. Refugees, in Stanford harbor,2 burned a Rebell Galley, fired 4: 24 Pounders round & Grape, & 4: 4 Prs: with Do: to Scour the woods, before the troops landed, at 8 AM. the troops Embarked, Do: weighed...
Date: 24 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11