Hut Ca])tain Tinker, with the wind at South, ami on the " tide of Hood " [lhtndi>f liile '!] "when the ships could move, left his vessel, "th(»ugh stationed as a guard, to go up to King's Bridge, aftereome "clothes, as he pretends. The consequence wa*", that, in the hurry and " confusion, and long before thny were in ilanger, they left the gal- '* ley agro\ind, though they might have burned or bilged her. The enemy " took pos.sessiou of her, in half an liour ; and she, with the other, left " untlei- the like circumstances, will probably j)rove the most formidable " force they can have, to oppose us, on the river. There was a jilace of "safety provided for the other galleys, which they might have got into, "as well as McCleave ; but tliey passeil it, in their hurry." ((Icneial Wttithtitgfon^ Ihrmujh tho AdjiU^tut-f/eiieral, to (ioi-enior T7-»mbiitI^ ' Heao- "Ql'ARTEKS, October 11^, 1776.")

1 [Hall's] //i.i?</<-j/ nf llie Cu'il War in Aimricii, i.,187.

For other accounts of this daring feat, inatteutpting totlestroy these shifts, and of the 8ubse<iUcnt escape of the latter, see Gen'-nil Heath to Gfia-ral Washinijton, *' King's BRintiK, 17 August, I77ti ;" OfiifrtU Wtmhiuijton to the Premlnit of Onigress, "Nf.w-Yohk, August 17, 1776;" llif sumr to Goreruor TnimbnU, " New Yukk, August IK, 1776;" General Ileuth to General Washington, " KiNo's ItitinoE, 18 August, 1770 ;" E-rnminalion of Jonnthan Wontlnian and two others, ttev'rtets, enclosed by General fiercer to General Washington, " Newark, August 19, 1776 ; " Extract from a letto- dated " New York, August I'J, 1776," published in Force's Anteric€iH ^ic/n'ivd, Fifth Series, i., Ul6li ; (.ieneral Il.ath to General Washingt4m, " Kino's Briocje, August 20, 1776 ;" 'lite Pennsijleania Keening Vast, Vol. II., No. 247, Pnii.AiiEi.niiA, Tuesday, August 2<l, 1776; The Vennsylcania ./miiM.i/, No. 175!l, Pnii.AOEi.rHiA, Wednesday, .\ngust 21, 177(> ; TJv Conneetient Gazelle and Vnieersal Int/ UitjenccT, Vol.11., No. 667, New London, Friday, August 2'J, 1776 ; Memoirs of General Heath, Wi-bi) ; Gordon's History of the American lierolntion, ii., 305; Force's A7nerican Archiees,\., i., !l8:i ; Irvirig's Life nf George Washiiigtvn, ii., 306. 307 ; etc.