Order’d, That Capt Hopkins1 deliver Capt Bartlett for the Brigt. Tyranicide2 one Barrel N England Rum qt 33 Glls. @ 25/.—
Order’d, That John Decker for Masts, Spars, &c. deliver’d Joseph Walker as pr his Receit . . be paid . . £140..--..-- which is to be charg’d said Walker—
Order’d, That Wm. Williams for repairing four Compasses for the Brigt Freedom3 . .
D, M-Ar, Mass. Archives Collection, vol. 149 (Board of War Minutes, 1777–1778), pp. 345–46.
1. Capt. Caleb Hopkins.
2. Massachusetts Navy brigantine Tyrannicide.
3. Massachusetts Navy brigantine Freedom, Capt. John Clouston, commanding.
4. Massachusetts State trading brigantine Penet, John Harris, master.
5. Massachusetts State trading ship Versailles (formerly Venus), Joseph Chapman, master. NDAR 7: 605– 6; 10: 615.
6. Massachusetts State trading brigantine Isabella, later renamed Count D’Estaing. NDAR 7: 606.
7. Thomas Ivers.