Minutes of the Massachusetts Board of War, April 23, 1778

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	Board of War,
Present—		Boston April 23^d 1778
Sam^l Ph'ps Savage Esq^r Geo: Williams Esq^r	Jn^o Brown Esq^r Isaac Phillips Esq^r Sam^l Ph'ps Savage President—	Thomas Walker Esq^r Eleaz^r Johnson Esq^r

Order'd, That M^r Stephen Cross & C^o.1of Newbury-Port be paid in Continental Money £1000—& in State Notes £500..—..— to pay for Timber, Plank, &c. purchas'd by them for building a twenty Gun Ship.—²

LB, M-Ar, Mass. Archives Collection, vol. 149 (Board of War Minutes, 1777–1778), p. 287.

1. The other members of the company were Ralph Gross and Jonathan Greenleaf.

2. This frigate was named Protector in 1779. For more on its construction, see NDAR 11: 627; Acts and Resolves of the Massachusetts General Court, 21 Apr., above; and Messrs. Greenleaf, Cross & Cross to Massachusetts Board of War, 4 May, below.

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1778 April 23

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American Theatre from April 1, 1778 to May 31, 1778

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