To General Ward ー

Sr I Recd your Orders with great pleasure to go to Long-Island with Five Hundred Men, & Two Days Provision, with proper implements to throw up Works to annoy the Enemies Ships near that Island. And it is with equal pleasure, That I am able in this my Return, to acquaint your Honour with our Success. Through the Divine Goodness, we have prosecuted your Plan in such a Manner, That our Enemies were obliged to leave the Harbour with their Men of War & Transports, with a large Number of Ministerial Troops, & tho' in a manner honorary to the Continental Troops, yet in a manner shameful to them, their Strength and Numbers being vastly Superior to ours, and as an Evidence of their Cowardice, & final remove, they destroyed the Light House, which was in their hands. And what is more extraordinary than any thing is, That the whole was effected with out a man Killed or wounded. So that the Port of Boston is now open which has been shut two Years to a Day.