The Roebuck,
man-of-war, and the Liverpool, with three tenders, came into the Bay, but the
detestible Tories hearing of the riflemen having arrived evacuated the town.
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. 195
