Last Monday [October 9] the men of war, after firing on Bristol and Papaquash, went into the ferry way between Portsmouth and Bristol, and fired near 200 shot at the houses and people on each side; 3 shot struck the house of Capt. Earl near the ferry, which is all the damage done there that we hear of; 60 shot, we hear, were fired at the windmill, without hitting it. From thence some of the ships, tenders and transports, went and surrounded Gould-Island and took a few sheep; others went to Hope Island, and got 2 or 3 young cattle; thence they proceeded to Dutch-Island, in Narragansett-Bay; where were upwards of 100 rams, part of which some people from Narragansett took off, while the vessels lay there; the remainder, about 60, the enemy took away. On the whole this fleet, by cruising and firing about our bays and harbours, for near a fortnight, have got about 40 head of cattle great and small, and 180 sheep, including the cattle bought of the Brentons, and 60 rams; the 150 sheep mentioned in many papers of last Monday being a mistake; for we are well informed they got but 5 sheep from Brenton's neck.
The same day the Glasgow fired a number of cannon upon the town of Jamestown, without doing any damage, except beating one stone out of a house.
The men of war, tenders, &c. came down the bay and anchored in this harbour, last Thursday.
Within 14 days past the men of war have taken out, and cut away, the masts, bowsprits, &c. of a number of small sloops and ferry boats.
Last Friday in the afternoon a barge, with a number of hands from one of the ships in this harbour, landed at the N.W. part of this town, took a boat which lay haled up on the shore, and was carrying her off, when the owner got his musket, ran down to the shore, and fired upon the barge, but did no execution; upon which the Glasgow, and one of the tenders, fired several shot at the owner of said boat, but missed him. ー A 9 pound shot, from the Glasgow, entered one side of Mr. Matthew Lawton's house on the Point, carried away a part of a beam inside, and fell down, without hurting any person.