[570] Ibid., September 6, 1779. The Senate was not willing to make so large a naval increase.
[571] Ibid., February 14, 1780.
[572] South Carolina Archives, Miscellaneous Records, A. Among the vessels to which the Governor gave commissions were the following: galleys “Congress,” “South Edisto,” “Revenge,” “Beaufort,” “Lee,” “Marquis de Bretigny,” and “Carolina;” sloop “Count de Kersaint,” brigantines “General Lincoln” and “Beaufort,” schooner “Eshe,” and the vessel “Lovely Julia.” The following vessels, a number of which were impressed, were in the service of the state in 1779 or 1780: galley “Rutledge,” schooners “Polly,” “Rattlesnake,” “Sally,” “Anthony,” “General Moultrie,” “Nancy,” “Three Friends,” brig “Wasp” and brigantine “Ballony.”
[573] Almon’s Remembrancer, 1780, II, 44-47.
[574] Previous to the siege of Charles Town, His Majesty’s navy had captured the following vessels: February, 1777, “Defence” taken by the “Roebuck” and “Perseus;” December, 1777, “Comet,” taken by the “Daphne;” April, 1779, “Hornet,” taken by the same.
[575] Gibbes, Documentary History of American Revolution, 1776-1782, 181, 183.
[576] Journals of South Carolina House of Representatives, February 12, 1780.
[577] Journals of South Carolina House of Representatives, March 5, 1783.
[578] South Carolina Archives, Miscellaneous Records, A, 66, 67; Journals of South Carolina House of Representatives, March 10, 1783, report of a committee on certain papers of Commodore Gillon.
[579] South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, I, 28-32, 136-47, two letters of Gillon.