This day 1000 of the
Pennsylvania militia came to Perth Amboy. A rifleman was shot by the enemy
going in a boat to Staten Island.
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. 196
