[Boston] 28 [September]
An Armed Schooner arrived last Night from Rhode Island with a Sloop loaden with Flour from Philadelphia for the Rebels in Massachusets Bay. Captain Wallace acquainted the Admiral she was taken in Seconnet passage going to Swanzea,2 and that the armed Schooner was the Vessel which had carried the Rebel Companies over to Block Island to take off the Stock, and being chased by the Rose. into Stonytown was taken from the Wharf; adding that such Vessels being proper for the Rivers and Creeks thereabout he had put four 3 Pounders and eight Swivels into her, and lent her to the Glasgow for a Tender.
1. Graves's Conduct, I, 135-136, BM.
2. Sloop Phoenix, John Sheridan, master.