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Thursday the 13th, about eight o'clock in the evening, Francis Staple, the person who has the care of Turtle Bay, came to town and informed me of the following particulars, vizt. That about three o'clock this afternoon, the same sloop which carried off the stores from thence on the night of the 12th ultimo, came again to that place, and was met by a party of the Connecticut troops, supposed to be about fifty men, who put on board the said sloop (as near as he could well guess) about 500 24 lb round shot, 50 ten inch, and the like number of cohorn shells. They likewise broke open the store house, took out the major part of what remained there, such as old sand bags, empty boxes, &c. and then went off.