Delegates to Congress . Letters of delegates to Congress, 1774-1789, Volume 6, January 1 1777-April 30 1777
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Marine Committee to To: Samuel Purviance, Jr.

In Marine Committee 15th January 1777

   Ordered that Messrs. Purveyance & Stewart the Continental Marine Agents in the State of Maryland be directed to proceed immediately to provide Timber for building the two thirty six gun Frigates ordered to be built in the said State, and to proceed in other respects to provide materials for the completion of said Frigates.(1)John Hancock

   Richard Henry Lee

   Wm. Whipple

   [P.S.] The particular Dimensions shall be deliver'd you.


Note: RC (NN). Written by Lee and signed by Lee, Hancock, and Whipple, with postscript by Hancock.

1 Congress had authorized construction of these frigates on November 20, 1776. JCC, 6:970.