[Extract]
Upon the request of the Marine Comtee we have affixed Norwich as the place of Building a 36 Gun Frigate, and Chatham as the place of Building a 28 Gun Frigate in this State, agreable to a Resolve of Congress of the 23d Janry and a request of the Marine Comtee of the 28th Janry, and have appointed upon like request Capt Joshua Huntington to superintend Building the Frigate at Norwich, and Capt John Cotton to superintend the Building the other at Chatham.2
1. Papers CC (Connecticut State Papers, 1775-89), 66, I, 293-94, NA.
2. Norwich-built frigate was the Confederacy, and that at Chatham the Bourbon.
