Good morning from July 1, 1776

Good day to ya. It is July 1st, 1776, and this is your news.

Over one hundred British ships are now anchored off Sandy Hook, with small boats shuttling between them.

Y’all, this is plainly an army preparing to land, and the expected spot is Staten Island — where the locals are not exactly enthusiastic patriots and may well greet the king’s troops with ope…