We have an Account by a Gentleman just arrived from the Eastward, that on the 23d of last Month the Gage Sloop of 14 Guns, (late belonging to Dr. Gardner of Kennebec)¹ commanded by Charles Callahan,² and the Sloop How,³ commanded by ———— Allen, both fitted out at Halifax, came into Cramberry Islands,⁴ and there got Intelligence that a Number of Officers who lately escaped from Halifax had been there, and they supposed had gone to Naskeag;⁵ the sloops went there and demanded these Men; but were informed by the Militia Officer who commands there, that they were not there; that had they been, they should not have them: On which they fired from the Sloops, & landed between 40 and 50 Men, and were opposed by seven only, who were fortunate enough to kill one, and wound three very dangerously———— Before they left Naskeag, they burned 6 Houses and 6 Barns, and kill'd and carried off between 16 &c 20 Head of Cattle. The next Day they went to Robenson's Island,⁶ from whence they took some Sheep. They then proceeded up Aggamoggen Reach,⁷ took a Number of Fishermen and 3 Sloops, loaded at Penobscot, and carried them with them to the Eastward on the 24th in the Evening after releasing all the Fishermen.