At 4 P. M. three
schooners came down the Sound and were hailed by our sentries. Returning no
answer, a heavy cannonade ensued on both sides—from our battery near the Ferry,
and from the enemy at Billop's Point on Staten Island. During the action
we had one man killed and one wounded—the schooners got off much damaged.
SOURCE: “Diary of
Lieutenant James McMichael,” William H. Egle, Editor, Pennsylvania
Archives, Second Series, Vol. XV: Journals and Diaries of the War of the
Revolution with Lists of Officers and Soldiers, 1775-1783, pp. 196-7
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