Order’d, That Wm. Fleets Bill for Dockage & Appraisement of the Snow Swift1 . . . be paid . . Prize Accots . . £7..16..--
Order’d, That Capt Phillips2 be a Committee to get made for the Hazard,3 a new Main-Topsail—a Mainsail—a new Jibb—a New Main-Topmast Steering-Sail, & that for ye above purpose Capt Hopkins4 deliver Capt Phillips from the Store 9 p’s Russia Duck, & 80 y’ds Osnabrigs—
Capt John Foster Williams waited on the Board, & produced a Commission appointing him to the Command of the Brigt. Hazard—5
D, M-Ar, Mass. Archives Collection, vol. 149 (Board of War Minutes, 1777–1778), pp. 348–49.
1. Prize snow Swift, William Pearce, master.
2. Capt. Isaac Phillips.
3. Massachusetts Navy brigantine Hazard, Capt. John Foster Williams, commander.
4. Capt. Caleb Hopkins.
5. The General Court approved Williams’ appointment on 23 June. M-Ar, Mass. Archives Collection, vol. 38 (Massachusetts General Court Records, 1777–1778), pp. 608–9.
