[550] Journals of South Carolina General Assembly, April 10, April 11, 1776.
[551] Journals of South Carolina General Assembly, April 11, 1776; Cooper, Statutes of South Carolina, IV, April 9, April 11, 1776.
[552] Journals of South Carolina General Assembly, September 21, 1776; Cooper, Statutes of South Carolina, IV, October 8, 1776.
[553] Force, American Archives, 5th, II, Journals of South Carolina Navy Board, October 25, 1776.
[554] Ibid., Journals of South Carolina Navy Board, October 9, 12, 1776.
[555] Cooper, Statutes of South Carolina, IV, August 23, 1777.
[556] Journals of South Carolina House of Representatives, February 8, 1780.
[557] Force, American Archives, 5th, II, Journals of South Carolina Navy Board, October 17, 1776.
[558] Journals of South Carolina House of Representatives, September 10, 1779. The contract with Cochran was being dissolved.
[559] Notes of Mr. A. S. Salley, Jr., Secretary of the Historical Commission of South Carolina.