[Williamsburg] Friday the 14th day of March 1777
Ordered that two Callies such as the Navy Board may judge most fit be stationed at Cherryton or such other place on the Eastern Shore as the County Lieutenants of Accomack & Northampton shall think best for the protection of the Trade and defence of the Inhabitants there.
1. McIlwaine, ed., Journals of the Virginia Council, I, 368. Galleys Protector and Safeguard.
