[Williamsburg] Friday December 6th 1776
Ordered that the Commissioners of the Navy Board be requested to direct one of the Row Gallies or some other armed Vessell belonging to this State to proceed immediately to the Head of Elk for the purpose of transporting seven hundred stand of Arms, purchased by our Delegates in Congress and lodged at that Place under the care of Mr Hollingworth and that the said Commissioners give Instructions to the Captain of such Vessell that may be sent for the aforesaid Purpose to return with the said Arms to this Place as soon as possible.
1. McIlwaine, ed., Journals of the Virginia Council, I, 266, 267.