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From the "Massachusetts Gazette," May 1, 1786.
On Saturday evening the 22d ult. eight of the prisoners, confined
at the Castle, broke from their confinement, and made their
escape to the main. The day following five of them were taken in
a barn at Dorchester, and immediately re-conducted to the Castle.
The ensuing night the three others were apprehended at Sharon,
near Stoughton, and were also sent back to their place of
confinement.
Richard Squire and John Matthews, the pirates, and Stephen
Burroughs, a _noted_ clerical character, were among the prisoners
who made their escape from the Castle, as mentioned above. And on
Saturday last, we are informed, the eight culprits shared among
them the benefit of a distribution of 700 lashes.
On Monday evening last, a person, in passing from the Long-Wharf
to Dock-Square, was assaulted and knocked down, by a single
villain, who robbed him of a box, containing a coat, two
waistcoats, a pair of corduroy breeches, a piece of calico, in
which was wrapped up three watches, and a letter containing
money.
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