After the evacuation of Boston by British troops and Tory civilians on 17 March 1776, this bleak portrait of the aftermath of the event was noted in a letter written on board a Bristish ship lying just outside Boston Harbor, and printed in the Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser on 6 May. After the evacuation of Boston by British troops and Tory civilians on 17 March 1776, this bleak portrait of the, aftermath of the event was noted in a letter written on board a British ship lying just outside Boston Harbor, and printed in the Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser on 6 May: One hundred and forty vessels, great and small, are arrived in this road from Boston, in the most distressed condition that can possibly be described, with General Howe, his army, and about 1500 inhabitants (friends to the government) of that place. Where they are bound...