[588] Force, American Archives, 4th, IV, 744-45; 5th, III, 94.

[589] Force, American Archives, 4th, VI, 1487, 1496.

[590] The following vessels were employed as trading craft: Sloop “Molly;” schooners “Ninety-Six,” “General Smallwood,” and “Friendship;” brigs “Sam” and “Friendship,” and ship “Lydia.”

[591] Maryland Archives, XI, XII, XVI, XXI.

[592] Force, American Archives, 5th, III, 128.

[593] Ibid., 1025.

[594] Maryland Archives, XXI, 125.

[595] Force, American Archives, 4th, V, 1596, 1597-98.

[596] Scharf, History of Maryland, II, 205.

[597] Maryland Archives, XXI, 399.