[Charleston] Saturday the 19th Day of October 1776
Message to the President May it please Your Excellency
This House being informed That the Trade of this Place is subject to many Inconveniences by the Delay attending Vessels being obliged to call at Fort Johnson and Fort Moultrie both in going out and coming in request your Excellency will give Orders that in future Vessels coming in may only be obliged to call at Fort Moultrie and going out at Fort Johnson and may be allowed to pass by some proper signal from the Fort they first pass
It appearing to the House that the late Commander and mariners of the Armed Vessel called the Revenge had received no more than Two Sixth Parts of the nett Amount of Sales of the Cargo taken by them on board the Transport Brigantine Glasgow Packet and that the other Four Sixth Parts had been paid into the Treasury as the share of the State
Resolved That the Commissioners of the Treasury do advance and pay to Captain [Thomas] Pickering late Commander and the mariners late belonging to the said armed Vessel One Sixth Part of the Four Sixths of the net amount of the said Sales so paid into the Treasury as a further Encouragement for their Gallant Behaviour in the taking the said Brigantine Glasgow Packet.2
1. Salley, ed., South Carolina General Assembly Journals, 145, 152.
2. Pickering had arrived in South Carolina on board the sloop General Washington from Providence, Rhode Island. He was active in the defense of Charleston, and took the Glasgow Packet. See Volumes 4 and 5.