[598] Statutes of Maryland, October session, 1780, chapter XXXIV.
[599] Statutes of Maryland, May session, 1781, chapter XXXIV.
[600] Scharf, History of Maryland, II, 439-40, 456, 461.
[601] Statutes of Maryland, April session, 1782, Chapter III.
[602] Statutes of Maryland, November session, 1782, Chapter XXVI.
[603] Maryland Archives, XII, 500.
[604] Ridgely, Annals of Annapolis, 175-77.
[605] Scharf, History of Maryland, II, 481-82.
[606] Southern Literary Messenger, XXIV, (1857), 218, Colonel John Cropper to Colonel Williams Davies, his superior in command in the Continental line.
[607] Scharf enumerates the following barges: “Revenge,” “Terrible,” “Intrepid,” “Protector,” “Experiment,” “Venus,” “Defence,” “Reformation,” “Dolphin,” and “Fearnaught.” These barges were about forty-two feet long, eight feet wide, and three deep. Each carried about twenty-four oars, from sixteen to thirteen feet long, and mounted two large guns.—Scharf, History of Maryland, II, 204.