5th nothing Extraordinary but reconnoitring the Enemy’s works they began to throw up opposite Elizabeth- town Ferry the 3d, which we found very slight and ill constructed. Several People came in, in Boats from Long Island and the town, most horridly persecuted by the Rebels. The Emerald Arrived with a Ship loaded with Provisions from the Loyalists at New York. Landed the entrenching tools with the Cannon. Morris formerly an Officer in the 47th Regiment. This night a Sloop came in from Shrewsberry in the Jerseys with 66 men in Arms to join the Army under Mr. The Asia return’d the fire and drove them off. The Rebels fired from a field piece at our Transports coming up the Narrows. This day we brought up 2 12 -pounders and 2 Royal Howitzers near Deckers Ferry. The General would not allow the Grass hoppers to be fired. July 4th Last night the Rebels brought two pieces of Cannon to Deckers’s Ferry, one 12 and one 9 pounder, and Early in the morng fired on the George Sloop and kill’d and wounded 5 men, but the sloop drove them off with the loss of one man and some wounded. They lay near the landing Place all night.
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Generals Robertson and Leslie landed immediately without opposition, the inhabitants wellcoming them ashore. It rain’d smartly, and the ist division of Transports got under way with the first of the flood Tide, and about 9 we got up to the Watering Place on Staaten Island where the 3 men of war had hauled close inshore, the General on board the Greyhound, and the Grenadiers and Light Infantry under Earl Percy. About 4 past one the Phoenix made the signal for preparing to land. The Phoenix, Grayhound and Rose men of war got about 4 or 5 miles ahead and brought too. About 12 the ships nearest were ordered to drop down with the Tide, lucky for us the Rebels had no Cannon here or we must have suffered a good deal. They fired musquetry at the nearest Ships without effect. We observed a good many of the Rebels in Motion on shore. Some of the ships with in 7 or 800 Yards of Long Island. At 11 The tide turn’d and becoming allmost Calm and the wind ahead the Transports fell into great Confusion all dropping upon one another without steerage way which obliged us to come to an Anchor. 2nd Weigh’d Anchor at 10 morning and stood for the Narrows, the Tide just on the turn against us and a light Breeze. Wrote my Brother and nclos’d the 2d of Exchange for £200 Sterling drawn by Captain S: in his favour. Have had very calm weather for 10 Days past with light Breezes from the East. 29th at 6 in the morning discovered land the heights call’d the Neversinks close by sandy hook the Entrance intoNew York Bay, and all the Fleet got safe to an Anchor at 3o’clock behind the Hook. Major Archibald Robertson of Lawers 1782 by George Romney The Museum of Fine Arts in St. The following excerpts start with the British fleet approaching Sandy Hook and anchoring off the coast of Staten Island in late June and includes the preparations for what would be the Battle of Long Island in August Howe for most of the engagements from 1776 to 1778, and upon arriving at New York in the summer of 1776, described the landscape and troop movements in and around Staten Island.
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Archibald Robertson‘s Diaries and Sketches are an extraordinary eye-witness account of the Revolutionary War.