Heavy fire from our
batteries all day. A shell from one of the French mortars set fire to a British
frigate; she burnt to the water's edge, and blew up made the earth shake. Shot
and shell raked the town in every direction. Bomb-proofs the only place of
safety.
SOURCE: J. B.
Lippincott & Co., Publisher, The Record of the Court at Upland, in
Pennsylvania. 1676 to 1681. And a Military Journal Kept by Major E. Denny, 1781
to 1795, p. 247
