Capt. Adams [sic]of Beverly, in a privateer has taken two prize schooners and a sloop, laden with fish and oil from Halifax for the besieged army in Boston,² and has also retaken a sloop off Marblehead, with two officers, six seamen and two marines prisoners, who were put on board to pilot her into Boston³

Captain Coit in a privateer from Plymouth in this province [MassachusettsBay] has taken two prizes laden'd with fish, flour, hogs, sheep, cattle, potatoes, cheese and all kind of poultry, from Halifax, for the use of the hungry crew in Boston. The vessels were brought safe into Plymouth, where Capt. Coit (a humorous genius) made the prisoners land upon the same rock our ancestors first trade when they landed in America, where they gave three cheers, and wished success to American arms ー⁴