Saturday Night last[May 20] four armed Vessels, well manned, were sent from Boston to an Island near Weymouth, in order to take on board a Quantity of Hay that had been procun:d for the Use of the ministerial Army ー They were discovered early on Sunday Morning, when a Number of the Inhabitants put off for the Island in a Gondola, who drove the Enemy on board their Vessels, burnt a large Quantity of Hay, and brought off a Number of Cattle which they had ty'd, ー Our People fired on them briskly, and a Person since from Boston says, that three Men were carried in mortally wounded; they returned the Fire with Swivels and small Arms, but did no Execution, and got only one Ton of Hay, which they had taken in before they were opposed. ー The Wind and Tide favoured the Enemy greatly, otherwise it is thought none of them would have escaped. ー The Firing and burning of the Hay occasioned an Alarm through the Country, and vast Bodies of Provincials were on their March towards Weymouth.
We hear that Capt. Webster, in a Sloop from New-York, with Provisions, was seized a few Days since by a Man of War's Tender, near Newport.
