[Williamsburg] Friday September 20th 1776.
The Brigantine Adventure now lying at York, with Tobacco, designed by order of the Committee of Safety for Dunkirk, being in an unfit condition to proceed on such a Voyage. It is Ordered that she proceed to Portsmouth, there to unload and refit, and after relading, that she proceed to Cape Nichola Mola, instead of Dunkirk, as a more desirable mart in the present circumstances of things. And the Commissioners of the Navy are di- rected to carry the design of these Orders into Execution.
A Permit was issued to the Schooner Polly Captain Earle to go to Martinico, a Manifest of her Cargo being filed, and ordered to be registered.
1. McIlwaine, ed., Journals of the Virginia Council, I, 168, 169.