[Williamsburg] Wednesday December 11th 1776
On a Recommendation from the Navy Board It is Ordered that a Com, mission issue to John Crew Gentleman appointing him first Leiutenant on board the Sloop Defiance Captain [William] Green
Ordered that the Navy Board be requested to Charter the Brig purchased of Captain Thomas to Mr Germain for a Voyage to the Island of Saint Domingo and that the Termes of the said Charter be as low as the Interest of the Commonwealth can possibly admit of
1. McIlwaine, ed., Journals of the Virginia Council, I, 275, 276.
