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Very great Pains have been taken to starve the Troops and the Friends of Government in Boston, for no Article Necessary for the Support of Life is Suffered to be Sent there from any of the Provinces from New-Hampshire to South Carolina, and in most of the Sea-Ports Persons are appointed to examine everything that is embarked and where it is going. They endeavor to prevent also the Fishermen from Supplying the Town with Fish, by means of Whale-Boats that they have Seized at Nantucket, and have lately in those Boats destroyed the Light House off Cape-Ann and at the Entrance of this Harbour, to deceive Ships bound in here.
The King's Ships have Sent in a few Vessels laden with Flour and other Articles which affords some Relief to the Troops, tho' we hoped for more ample Supplys thro' their Means, as the Inhabitants begin to feel some Distress.
It was found upon a further Enquiry about the State of Fort William and Mary, in New-Hampshire that the light Pieces and Ammunition was what the People chiefly had carried away from the Fort, and that most part of the heavy Artillery had been left. Upon this Advice a large Transport under the Protection of a Ship of War was sent to Secure the Ordnance remaining in said Fort, and I enclose your Lordship a List thereof; which was brought away, and part of it is sent home in an Artillery Transport.
