Navy Board [Charleston] Fryday 1st. November 1776—
The Board Met According to Adjournment
Present. —Edward Blake Esqr first. Commissioner Thomas Corbett Geo A Hall Roger Smith Esqrs —
Read the Minutes of last meeting —
Agreed; that application be _made to the President for Eight Hundred Bushells of Salt; to be delivered to the Commissioners of the Navy for salting provisions for the use of the Navy.
Agreed. That the first Commissioner do write to James Black, Stone & Russel, Paul Pritchard & Clement Lempriere, to know on what terms they will undertake to Build, the Row Gallies, by what time they will have them finished, and what quantity of Iron will be requisite for Each Galley.
1. A. S. Salley, Jr., ed., Journal of the Commissioners of the Navy of South Carolina, October 9, 1776-March 1, 1779 (Columbia, S.C., 1912), 16. Hereafter cited as Salley, ed., South Carolina Navy Board.
