The Marine Committee to the American Commissioners
LS: American Philosophical Society; copies: National Archives, Library
of Congress
<York, Pa., June 10, 1778: Twenty-eight twenty-four-pounders
and twenty-eight eighteen-pounders are needed for a ship now
building at Portsmouth; please send them there or to Boston
at the first opportunity. If the Boston and Providence are in
France, they may carry them. In that case please load an equal
number of each size as needed for ballast; we shall have use for
more than the ship requires.>
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