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Sir  I wrote to You Yesterday by Mr Fraser who I sent round to Boston in the Spynx Sloop, all communication between the Ship and Town is still stop't  what measures they are pursuing in the Town I cannot inform You, the Guns which I spik'd up which I mentioned to You in my last, they have got up to Town before the Canceaux got off the Battery as Lt [Henry] Mowat informs me in his Letter they are preparing them for Service, there is a Hill abreast of Us in the Massachusetts side, which commands the Ship, they are now throwing up an Intrenchment and getting Cannon ready to mount there with an intention to fire on the Ship, there are two or three hundred Men Armed have been at work on it these two or three days past, all the Country are Armed and marching in bodys into the Town, it seems their whole design is if possible to drive the Ship out of the Harbour  for further particulars I refer You to Mr [Thomas] Fisher Collector of the Customs at Salem who has been in Town, all the time these disturbances happened, I have taken forty or fifty Tons of Shot from the Fort and put it on'board a Sloop belonging to Capn [Thomas] Colsten for fear they might come in, in the night and steal them as there is no people in the fort, as I was informed they intended it, I hope I shall have Instructions how to act, against

The Houses on both sides the Water are entirely deserted expecting the Ship to be attack'd every hour.

I am, Sir [&c.]