Sir

This Morning About Fore A Clock Landed a partey of the Enemy Consisting of About two hundred, As Near as we Coold Judge in two Devitions one Devition At the South Ferrey the Other Below Benjamin Gardners, that Devition Landed at the South Ferrey was Covered by a Rogalle [row galley], we Rallied And Engaged them they Emediately Gave way and Retreated into their bates again, but by Some Accident th Galley Got a Ground when we Exchanged a Large Number of Vollies with them, and they At the Same time keeping Up an Essent [incessant] Fire out of the Galle which mainley went Above Us, coold our Artelerey bin furnished with horses So they Coad Advanced in Seasone Am Sertain we must' have taken the Galley, we Drove them All out of hur, with our Small Armes; but the tide Making Flood Enabeled them to take hur of[f] Again by this time we Got down one field peace which was plaid with Sperit by the Officers of the train and Am well Asured did good Execution for we Saw Numbers fall, — the partey Landed Above Carried of[f] Caleb Allen Benjamin Gardner and About Six or Seven Solegars Quartered in Mr Guardners house. the others Made their Escape — in the Scurmish we had two men wounded, Must intreat his Honnour the Gover to Give Us Some Directions to pro­cure two horses for our train Imediately As we Are Now Convinced that it is A Matter of the Gratest Importance, Must informe his Honr that we have Exasted all the Amunition this way, And have sent A person to. You Sir for Assistance And Make Not Least Doubt that our Request will Emediately be Cumplied with, and Sent Forward without Delay, the Enemy haith Landed on the west Side of Conaticut Island where their bates Now All Lay, And shoold they Make Another Desent we Cannot Make any Resistance till we Are Supplide with Amunition in haste And Much Feteagued We are [&c.]

P:S the Inhabitants on boston Neck behaved with Grate Spiret in Getting their Stock of[f] which prevented the Enemy of being possessed of Any.