| Description | Has just seen a letter dated Boston 21 Apr from a gentleman of some importance who has arrived there from Salem which place he quitted on account of the affair of the 19th, he states that the retreat by Lord Percy was deemed a piece of masterly officership in bringing off his men with so little loss through a severe and incessant fire for twenty miles, killed, wounded and missing between 80 and 100 including many officers, the provincials were endeavouring to cut off communication between the town and country and they are computed at 20,000, Lord Percy is in good health at General Gage's house |