Navy Board [Charleston] Thursday 10th July 1777
A Letter to Mr David Hamilton dated Navy Board July 7th 1777
Sir/ The President having Signified to the Board by Message delivered by Mr John Calvert that it was the Determination of the Council, that a Galley of the Following Dimensions Sixty Two feet Keel Twenty feet Beam & Six feet Clear in the Hold should be Immediately built for the defence of this State, you'l therefore have [the] Galley Built with all possible dispatch.
Message from his Excellency the President to the Commissioners of the Navy dated July 9th 1777
The Public will not in future Insure Negroes employed in the Armed Vessels belonging to the State
1. Salley, ed., South Carolina Navy Board, 82.
