Order’d, That Capt Chapman1 be paid on Account . . £30..—..—
Order’d, That Capt Hopkins2 deliver Capt Williams3 from the Ship Live Oak for the use of the Brigantine Hazard, two Swivel Guns_which Belong’d to said Brigt
Order’d, That Capt Joseph Balch deliver Capt McCluer4 for an Awning for the Guard-Ship Rising Empire,_one old Main-Sail from the Sloop Republick—5
D, M-Ar, Mass. Archives Collection, vol. 149 (Board of War Minutes, 1777-1778), 363–64.
1. Capt. Joseph Chapman, master of Massachusetts State trading brigantine Nantes.
2. Capt. Caleb Hopkins.
3. Capt. John Foster Williams, commander of Massachusetts Navy brigantine Hazard.
4. Capt. William McCluer (or McClure), commander of Massachusetts State prison ship Rising Empire.
5. Massachusetts Navy sloop Republic, Capt. John Carey, former commander.
