In Marine Committee [Baltimore] 15th January 1777
Ordered that Messrs Purveyance & Stewart the Continental Marine Agents in the State of Maryland be directed to proceed immediately to provide Timbe[r] for building the two thirty six gun Frigates ordered to be built in the said State,2 and to proceed in other respects to provide materials for the completion of said Frigates. —
John Hancock Richard Henry Lee Wm Whipple
[P. S.] The particular Dimensions shall be deliver'd you
1. Emmet Autograph Collection, NYPL.
2. Congressional resolution of November 20, 1776.
