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CC-H.776.040
7 Oct 1776:31 (611)
Powles Hook, Sept 15, 1776. This evening a seaman who said
he belonged to Providence, that he was taken and obliged to
fight against his countrymen on board the Roebuck, made his
escape by swimming from New York to this place. . . [3
lines] He also gave notice, that preparation had been made
to attack this post, that a number of large ships were to
come up and endeavour to silence our batteries, while a
large body of troops in boats (which we discovered on the
opposite shore above us this afternoon) were to make a
descent above us, and endeavour to cut off our retreat.
That is was to have been executed this morning but the fire
prevented. . . [20 lines]
23d. At 1 o'clock P.M. having removed every thing of value,
we were ordered to retreat from the Hook. . . [13 lines]
Mean while out little battalion retreated with drums
beating, and colours flying, to Bergen, and before night the
brave Britons ventured on shore and took possession of our
vacant works, where they have taken every precaution to
prevent our formidable detachment from returning and driving
them from a post which with so great a display of heroism,
they have got possession of. . . [6 lines]
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