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A Permit granted to the Aurora Capt. John Hutchinson the Property of John Richards, Hall and Horner and Watson and Taylor and burthern two hundred Tons or thereabouts to proceed on her Voyage to Nants in France agreable to a Resolution of Congress
On the Recommendation of the Navy Board It is Ordered that Commissions issue to Edmund Waller appointing him second Leiutenant in Capt. Alexander Dicks...
Date: 2 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Ordered that the Commission granted by the Committee of Safety to Richard Taylor appointing him Captain of the Armed Schooner Hornett be now renewed and issued in the name of the Governor
The Board being informed that the Schooner Hornett Capt. Taylor and the Sloop Defiance Capt ———— have their respective Cargoes on board and are now ready to proceed to Sea. It is therefore the Opinion of this...
Date: 3 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
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...
Date: 6 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
On a Complaint brought before this Board by Thomas De Saussive Super cargo of the Sloop Maria lately arrived with Salt from Saint Eustatia setting forth that the Captains of two armed vessells belonging to this State have enlisted four of the Seamen belonging to the said Sloop that is to say Alexander Hendrall, Christopher Rostendall and Abraham Robswat are enlisted by Capt. [John] Harris and...
Date: 7 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
On a Recommendation from the Navy Board It is Ordered that a Com, mission issue to John Crew Gentleman appointing him first Leiutenant on board the Sloop Defiance Captain [William] Green
Ordered that the Navy Board be requested to Charter the Brig purchased of Captain Thomas to Mr Germain for a Voyage to the Island of Saint Domingo and that the Termes of the said Charter be as low as the Interest...
Date: 11 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
A Permitt granted to the Schooner Neptune Captain Darby to proceed on her Voyage to Martinico Manifest of Cargo filed Bond executed acknowledged and ordered also to be filed
A Permitt granted to the Sloop Experiment Captain John Outton to proceed on her Voyage to New Providence Manifest of Cargo filed Bond executed acknowledged and ordered also to be filed
A Letter was wrote to Messrs Adams and...
Date: 14 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Information being this Day given to the Board that the Sloop Margaret Richard Nestor Master now lying in Pamunkey River together with her Cargo is the Property of a certain Robert Shedden and other Persons inimical to the United States of America It is therefore Ordered that the said Sloop Margaret be attached by the Marshall of the Admiralty and that the said Nestor be cited to appear in the...
Date: 18 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7