Navy Board

	The Board Met According to Adjournment
Present	Edward Blake Esqr. first Commissioner—
	Geo Abbot Hall, Josiah Smith, Thos Corbett,		Esqrs—
	Edward Darrell, John Edwards . . .
		In the Privy Council
			March 13th 1778—

The Board advised his Excellency that a Cartel be proposed to the Governor of S^t. Augustine and that the Commissioners of the Navy Board do prepare and fit out the Rattlesnake for a Voyage there with provissions Sufficient for the prisoners of Warr intended to be sent in her, of whose Number his Excellency will inform the Board

By his Excellency the President¹
(Signed) Ordered Accordingly John Colcock Sec^y P.C.²

Ordered that the Schooner Rattle Snake be immediately unloaded and fitted Out as a Cartel, toproceed to S^t..Augustine with prisoners of war—

Navy Board March 16^th 1778

To Elisha Sawyer Commissary

Sir/

The Commissioners of the Navy request that you [will] with all possible Dispatch furnish the Necessary Stores and provissions for Fifty Men for One Month for the Schooner Rattlesnake

Edward Blake first Commissioner

Adjourned to next Thursday Evening 6 oClock—