Lebanon the 4th Day of July AD 1777
Voted & resolved, that no Board wages when suitable Provision was made on board shall be allowed to the Officers and Men on board the ship Oliver Cromwel in the settlement of their Accounts antecedent to the fourteenth day of April 1777 except such Officer, Marine or Mariner, was so sick as that his Continuance on board would have endangered his Life or the Health of others on board sd Ship.
1. Council of Safety Journal, vol. I, ConnSL.