[Halifax] Saturday July 27th, 1776
Resolved That Captain James Anderson who Commands the Independant Company stationed at Occacock do as soon as possible send an Officer with a sufficient Number of Men under his Command to Cape Hatteras Banks and to remove three peices of Iron Ordnance over the said Banks to Pamplico Sound and to Transport the Cannon from thence to South Key on Black Water and then deliver the same to the Virginia Commissioners appointed by the Convention of that Colony to build and fit out two Gallies for the protection of the Trade to Occacock and that all the Expence attending the hiring of Carriages &ca will be paid by this Colony
1. Secretary of State Papers (Provincial Conventions and Congresses/Councils 1774-1776), NCDAH.