Board of War Boston Feby. 16th 1778
Order'd That materials be immediately provided for building equipping & arming a Frigate to carry 20 nine pounders. Also for a Briga. to carry 16. six pounders with a long quarter Deck1
LB, M-Ar, Mass. Archives Collection, vol. 149 (Board of War Minutes, 1777-1778), 212-14.
1. See Acts and Resolves of the Massachusetts General Court, 17 Jan., above.