[Williamsburg] Saturday November 2nd 1776
On the Recommendation of the Navy Board It is Ordered that Commissions issue to Captain Edward Travis appointing him Captain of the Brig Raleigh lately commanded by Captain James Cocke. And to Robert Gray appointing him second Leiutenant of the said Brigg. And upon the Information of Champion Travis Esquire that James Davis had returned to the Navy Board a Certificate of the review of his Quota of Marines. It is also Ordered that a Commission issue appointing him to be third Leiutenant of the Company under Captain James Foster. And Commissions were accordingly issued bearing Date this day.
1. H. R. Mcllwaine, ed., Journals of the Council of the State of Virginia (Richmond, 1932), I, 223-24. Hereafter cited as Mcilwaine, ed., Journals of the Virginia Council.
