[608] Statutes of Maryland, April session, 1783, chapter XVI, Votes and Proceedings of Maryland Senate, April session, 1783, 63. For the pay-rolls of the “Flying Fish,” “Defence,” and several Maryland barges, see Maryland Archives, XVIII, 606-15.
[609] North Carolina Colonial Records, X, 352.
[610] Ibid., 637.
[611] Ibid., 584.
[612] North Carolina Colonial Records, X, 831-32, 848-49, 875-77; North Carolina State Records, XI, 356.
[613] North Carolina Colonial Records, X, 834-36.
[614] North Carolina State Records, XII, 173, 244, 623, 796.
[615] Force, American Archives, 4th, V, 1357.
[616] These vessels were at first called galleys.
[617] North Carolina Colonial Records, X, 981.