[2] The long island lying just west of Newport, in Narragansett Bay.
[3] Of Newport, the chief owner.
[4] A height at the southwestern extremity of Newport, on which the colony had just erected a watch-tower.
[5] In 1735 the Rhode Island assembly had appropriated £1200 for building a new pier at the harbor of Block Island (R.I. Col. Recs., IV. 502, 508, 512), and had not appropriated more since; but since the progress made had not been great, the quartermaster may be speaking in the vein of sarcastic prophecy.
[6] On the north shore of Long Island.
[7] Error for 3 A.M., probably.
[8] Whitestone Point, on the south side of the East River.
[9] I.e., by the province of New York; see under June 10.
[10] North Brother and South Brother islands, in the East River, just outside of Hell Gate.