[Maryland Navy galley Chester, Chestertown, 1778]
Sir
I apply to Counsel for arms for the Use of the States on bord of the Galley Chester forty Muskets with Bayonets And Catredg Boxses and Likewise forty prickers and Brushes and thirty Cutt Lashes and seven paire of pistells and two houndred flints and twenty worms and One Box of Muskett Catredges.—From yours
John Chever Lt on bor'd Chester
L, MdAA, Maryland State Papers (Executive Papers), S 1004, 663G12-78. Docketed: "Sundries for/the Chester Galley." Chever was lieutenant of marines on board Chester.
