[Williamsburg] Thursday August 8th 1776.
Resolved that Francis Lennis, Master of the Sloop Eagle, belonging to Richard James, be permitted to trade in the sd Sloop, laden with ten hogsheads of Tobacco and two hundred Barrels of Flour at the Island of Saint Croix, or any other port allowed of by Congress, according to the regulations by them prescribed, the said Francis Lennis entered into and acknowledged Bond with Security for that purpose which is ordered to be filed.
1. McIlwaine, ed., Journals of the Virginia Council, I, 113.