Watertown july 5 1775
[Extract]
The sea coasts are kept in constant apprehension of being made miserable by the depredations of the once formidable navy of Britain now degraded to a level with the corsairs of Barbary
At the same time they are piratticaly plundering the Isles, and pilfering the borders to feed the swarms of veteran slaves shut up in the town They will not suffer a poor fisherman to Cast his hook in the ocean to bring a little relief to the hungry inhabitants without the pittiful Bribe of a dollar each to the use of Admiral [Samuel] Greaves.
1. Warren-Adams Letters, I, 71, 72. Mercy Warren was the wife of James Warren, of Plymouth, Mass.
