Navy Board 23d April 1778–
To his Excellency the President
Sir/
Immediately after recet. of your Letter1 the Commissioners of the Navy Board sent to Lieut. James Mayberry the first Lieut of the General Moultrie to know if he would Accept the Command of the Galley which he agreed to do,2 the Commissioners therefore beg leave to recommend him to your Excellency as a fit person for that Command
By Order of the Board Edwd Blake first Commissr
Salley, ed., South Carolina Navy Board, p. 150.
1. The letter has not been found, but it presumably announced that Capt. James Doharty had resigned as captain of the South Carolina Navy galley Beaufort.
2. See Journal of the South Carolina Navy Board, this date, above.
