[Williamsburg] Tuesday the 28th day of July 1778.—
Present. Mr Travis and Mr Innis.—
Ordered that the keeper of the public store, deliver to Captain Elliot three yards Linen for the use of the Safe Guard Galley.1—
Ordered that the keeper of the public store, deliver to Captain Maxwell2 a Bolt of Canvas for the use of the Chickahominy shipyard.—
Ordered that Mr Holt or Mr Goodson, deliver to Mr Smith3 one coil of five and half inch cordage, one coil of three and half inch bolt rope, one of two and half inch cordage, and one of one and half inch ditto. —
D, Vi, Navy Board Journal, pp. 436–37.
1. Virginia Navy armed galley Safeguard, Capt. George Elliott.
2. Virginia Navy Capt. James Maxwell.
3. In the Navy Board Minute Book for this date, a clerk wrote "for the" at the end of this entry, but then crossed through those words and did not complete the phrase. Vi. “Mr Smith" was Thomas Smith, who oversaw Virginia's state trading vessels. Cf. Journal of the Virginia Navy Board for 12 Aug. 1778, below.
