FOOTNOTES:
[506] Hening, Statutes of Virginia, IX, 83.
[507] Calendar of Virginia State Papers, VIII, 75-240, Journal of Committee of Safety of Virginia, February 7 to July 5, 1776. Virginia had a class of vessels which she referred to as “armed boats.” They were smart craft, and appear to have been schooner-rigged.
[508] Miss Rowland’s George Mason, I, 214, 218.
[509] Hening, Statutes of Virginia, IX, 149-51. The Provincial Convention which met May 6, 1776, adopted a Constitution which provided for a Legislature of two houses, and an Executive consisting of a Governor and a Privy Council of eight members.
[510] Hening, Statutes of Virginia, IX, 521-22, October session of General Assembly in 1778.
[511] Southern Literary Messenger, 1857, 14. The references to this magazine refer to a series of valuable articles entitled “The Virginia Navy of the Revolution.”
[512] E. P. Lull, History of U. S. Navy Yard, at Gosport, Virginia, 8-11; Hening, Statutes of Virginia, XI, 407.
[513] Journals of Virginia Navy Board, Virginia State Archives, June 25, June 26, 1776.
[514] Hening, Statutes of Virginia, IX, 235-36.