[Williamsburg] Thursday 3d April 1777.
Ordered that a Warrant issue to Philip Johnson, James Bray Johnson and William Johnson for five hundred and ninety five pounds, being the consideration Money for a tract of land containing one hundred and Nineteen Acres, lying in Charles City County, purchased by this Board, on behalf of the Commonwealth, for the use of a Ship Yard on Chickahominy river, as will more fully appear by a Deed Executed and acknowledged for the same before several Witnesses, which is ordered to be presented to the County Court of James City for proof and record.
Ordered that Captain Robert Tompkins proceed with the Henry Galley to Mobjack Bay, there to cruize for the protection of the trade and Inhabic tants, and that he use his utmost to comply with this order and prevent any depredations from the Enemy's Ships or Vessels of War.