[Lebanon] Saturday, 23 March,
Voted, That Capt. Theophilus Stanton of Stonington be and he is appointed Captain of the row-galley building at Norwich. Voted, That Elij. Backus, Esqr, be employed and desired as soon as may [be] to work and manufacture two ship anchors of twelve hundred weight each, for the use of the Colony. Voted, That the row-galley building at N. Haven be called the Whiting.
1. Hoadly, ed., Connecticut Records, XV, 255.