[560] Cooper, Statutes of South Carolina, IV, January 16, 1777.
[561] Cooper, Statutes of South Carolina, IV, February 13, 1777, January 26, March 28, 1778. On February 13, 1777, a new act relating to the Court of Admiralty was passed.
[562] Ibid., October 9, 1778.
[563] In 1776 the following vessels were employed as merchantmen: schooners, “Polly,” “Peggy” and “Little Thomas;” the brigantine “Notre Dame,” and the sloop “Margaret.”
[564] South Carolina Archives, Miscellaneous Records, A, 18, 19.
[565] Files of South Carolina and American General Gazette, and Gazette of State of South Carolina.
[566] Gazette of State of South Carolina, July 21, November 4, 1777.
[567] Ibid., April 7, 1779.
[568] Moultrie, Memoirs of American Revolution, I, 193-99; South Carolina and American General Gazette, April 23, May 28, June 4, 1778; Ramsay, Revolution in South Carolina, I, 71; Clowes’s Royal Navy, IV, 10.
[569] Journals of South Carolina House of Representatives, August 31, 1779.