[Williamsburg] Wednesday the 15th day of April 1778.—
Present.
Mr Hutchings, Mr Travis and Mr Archer.—
Ordered that William Mullock and Robert Hamilton sailors on Board the Safeguard Galley be discharged, having served the time of their Enlistment. —
Ordered that the Keeper of the publick store deliver to William Plume as many necessaries not exceeding thirty pounds in value for the use of Amelia, the daughter of Captain John Harris late of the Musquetto who is now a prisoner, on his paying for the same.—1
DS, Vi, Navy Board Journal, p. 383.
1. As worded, this order is confusing. What it meant was that Amelia Harris was to receive £30 worth of supplies and that amount was to be deducted from the wages owed to Capt. John Harris, who was captured in the brig Musquetto off Bermuda on 4 June 1777 and was then in Forton Prison, Portsmouth, England. John Harris to Benjamin Franklin, 14 July, in Benjamin Franklin Papers 27: 92–94.
