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Messrs James Craig, James Wharton
Nathaniel Falkner & William Davis } Philadelphia 9 Janury 1776
Gentlemen The Honourable Continental Congress have thought proper to Order Four Frigates to be built in this Port, and Authorized us to Act as Commissioners for executing this Business with powers to do every thing necessary for Compleating it ー We find this will be a work of such Magnitude &...
Date: 9 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
As you have most Cheerfully undertaken the Building of a Frigate of War for the Service of the United Colonies we cannot too much commend Your Zeal nor be too warm in our Exhortations for the Continuance of it ー The Dimensions of the ship you are to Build are fixed, and a draft made, we doubt not you will conform as Strictly as Possible to both, and produce as Compleat and good a Ship as those...
Date: 9 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Cash
Dr To Carpenters Yard
Received by John Warton of William West by the hands of
Joshua Humphreys junr for the Stock remaining in the
Yard this day which we sold to David Thomson Francis
Grice Saml Penrose & William Pollard,2 for the use & Accot
of the Continental Congress ー viz ー
2 Poplar Logs a 10/ & 15/
1.. 5..ー
1 Cut water...
Date: 29 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3