[515] Journals of Virginia Navy Board, January 7, 1777.
[516] Maryland Archives, XI, 293-94.
[517] Journals of Virginia Navy Board; State Navy Papers, I; Southern Literary Messenger, 1857, 3.
[518] Journal of Virginia Navy Board, September, October, 1776.
[519] Hening, Statutes of Virginia, IX, 196-97. In August, 1776, the Navy Board drew up a list of naval rules which were endorsed by the Governor and Council.—Journals of Virginia Navy Board, August 2, 1776.
[520] Hening, Statutes of Virginia, IX, 103, 131-32, 202-06.
[521] Ford, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, II, 241-43.
[522] Journals of Virginia Navy Board, April 8, 1777.
[523] These vessels were the brig “Adventure;” the schooners “Hornet,” “Peace and Plenty,” “Revenge,” and “Speedwell;” the sloop “Agatha;” and the armed boat “Molly.” The lists of vessels here given were compiled from the Virginia naval archives.
[524] These vessels were the galleys “Henry,” “Hero,” “Lewis,” “Manly,” “Norfolk Revenge,” “Page,” and “Safeguard;” the brigs “Liberty,” “Mosquito,” “Northampton,” and “Raleigh;” the schooners “Liberty” and “Adventure;” the sloop “Scorpion;” and the armed boats “Liberty” and “Patriot.” The schooner “Liberty” was taken into the trading fleet as the “Hornet.” It is believed that this list does not contain the vessels in Mason’s Potomac fleet.