On Thursday last [July 20] the universal Fast Day,² a party of our troops in whale boats landed on Nantasket Point before day, and set fire to the Light House; at day light the men of war discovered and fired upon them. I was at Little Cambridge when the guns awakened me. ー I ascended an eminance at a distance, and saw the flames of the Light-House ascending up to Heaven like grateful incense, and the ships wasting their powder. Our men proceeded from thence to Point Shirley, in order to drive off some young colts, which were there; a party of regulars attacked them, but were repulsed, and drive into their boats without the loss of a man on our side either killed or wounded; what loss the regulars have sustained, I have not yet heard. The party set fire to all the fishing houses and hay that were on the place, and brought off four Tory fishermen, who are now prisoners at the General's, together with one Whiting.