At 4 this morning
wind S. W. to S.—light breezes. The Light house on Cape Henlopen bore W. N.
Westerly 7 leagues, at which time Sounded in 9 Fathoms water. At 2 o'clock this
morning the whole fleet tacked about and steered out to sea about a S. E.
course after 12 o'clock wind headed, the Fleet then kept away E. S. East,
Latitude at noon in 38° 44". At 10 this morning we lost sight of the land
from the deck of our Ship. The weather fine and the sea smooth, the season cool
which is very fortunate for the Troops. At ½ past 3 o'clock P. M. the fleet
tacked and steered a W. S. West course. At Sunset the fleet tacked again and steered E. S.
East. Continued about this course the whole night with a tumbling sea and
blowing fresh with close reefed topsails. The Roebuck 40 Guns Ship stationed so
long in the Delaware joined our fleet. But one of the vessels out of the 5 in
the Engineers Department have hitherto escaped being damaged. Conjectured by
the course we steered to be for Chesapeak Bay.
SOURCE: G. D. Scull,
Editor, The Montresor Journals, p. 431
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