[Providence] Monday Evening 30th April 1776
Meeting in being According to Adjournment
Voted. That twelve Eighteen pounders be Made for the Large Ship and only Six Eighteen pounders for the Small Ship and the Quarter Deck & forecassell Guns be six pounders and the Whole six, twelve & Eighteen pounders be all fifteen Diameters of the Ball
Voted. That Richard Marvin be appointed third Leutenant of One of the Continental Ships Building here, he is assigned to the largest Shipć¼
1. Journal R.I. Frigates, RIHS.