[Boston] Tuesday, Feb. 6th. Major [William] Shirreff received an Account from the Master of a Transport of his being taken, from Fort Cumberland, Bay of Fundy,. bound to Boston with a quantity of fresh Meat, and carried into a small port near Cape Ann, by three Privateers. 2
1. "The Kemble Papers," Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1883 (New York, 1884), I, 67.
2. The brig Henry and Esther, carried into Squam on the Cape Ann peninsula.
