Thursday, Dec. 14 One Mr: Kelton, from Dorchester, says, that, by the flags of truce which have lately come out at the lines, the account of the enemy's taking one of our privateers is true. It was a brig fitted out at Plymouth, commanded by one Captain Mansfield [Sion Martindale], who, being attacked by a twenty-gun ship, which boarded them several times, and was beat off; at last the privateer was overpowered by their great force, but not before they had every officer on board killed, and all the men to eighteen out of seventy-five; and the brig was afterwards carried into Boston. 2
1. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1st series, VII, 220.
2. About the only accurate statement in this report was that the armed brig Washington of Washington's fleet was captured and later carried into Boston.
