At a meeting of the Council of Safety, [Savannah] the 15th day of May, 1776.
Ordered, that a rowingboat, cockswain and six men be forthwith procured for the service of the public.
1. Allen D. Candler, comp., The Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia (Atlanta, 1908), I, 125, 126. Hereafter cited as Candler, comp., Georgia Records.