Boston, 26th of June, 1775. : This town was alarmed on the 17th instant at break of day, by a firing from the Lively ship of war; and a report was immediately spread that the rebels had broke ground, and were raising a battery on the heights of the peninsula of Charlestown, against the town of Boston

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