[Roxbury] 21st [July, 1775]
Major [Joseph] Vose returned from Nantasket. The detachment under his command brought off 1000 bushels of barley, all the hay, &c. ー went to Light-House Island; took away the lamps, oil, some gun-powder, the boats, &c. and burnt the wooden parts of the light-house. An armed schooner and several boats with men, engaged the detachment; of the Americans two were wounded.
1. Abbatt, ed., Heath Memoirs, 18.
