Gen. Washington
thinking it proper to evacuate the island, we were all ordered to march at 9
o'clock P. M. We crossed at St. George's ferry to New York with great speed and
secrecy.
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, p. 199
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