At a Meeting of the Committee Thursday 8 March 1776ー
Resolved, that the Schooner Resolution be fitted out as a Tender for the Ship Defence on the present Emergency, and that Capt William Waud be Captain, Capt Thomas Moore 1st Lieutenant, Capt George Wise 2d Lieutenant, & Capt William Paddison Master ー Messrs Robert Purviance, George Woolsey, & David Stewart be directed to carry this Resolve into immediate Execution—2
1. Baltimore Committee, LC.
2. In the Maryland State Archives is a "full estimate of the Defences Tender." It tabulates the estimate as follows:
