[Annapolis] Friday 1st March 1776.
Ordered That Messrs Samuel Purviance Junior, William Smith and David Stewart pay to Messrs William Lux and Daniel Bowly twelve hundred and two Pounds eighteen Shillings and nine pence, being the Ballance of their Account with the province in Consequence of an Adventure by the Schooner Seaflower.
Permit was granted to Messrs Samuel Purviance Junr William Smith and David Stewart and others concerned in the Adventure P the Schooner Seaflower, to export the Produce of this Province to the Amount of four hundred and eighty nine Pounds and five pence agreeable to a Resolution of the [Continental] Congress.
Doctr George Budd was appointed Surgeon of the Ship Defence, and Doctr Nathan Dorsey junr Mate.
1. Council of Safety Journal, 29 August 1775 to 20 March 1777, Md. Arch.