A number of the Marshfield Tories have just returned from Halifax, in a starving condition, with a request from Gen. Howe to Gen. Washington that the women and. children may return again. By all accounts they have neither covering from the weather or provisions.
Commodore [Joshua] Loring's youngest son,2 a midshipman, an:i a mate belonging to the English navy, were taken off Dartmouth last Thursday, coming from the West Indies, loaded with rum, sugar, &c. for the enemy.
1. Pennsylvania Evening Post, May 2, 1776.
2. John Loring; see commitment of four prisoners taken in the schooner Valiant, April 20, 1776.
