[384] Journals of Massachusetts House of Representatives, August 21, 1775. O’Brian’s name is found spelled in various ways. [385] Ibid., September 29, October 2, October 4,. 1775; Records of General Court of Massachusetts, October 4, 1775. [386] Journals of Massachusetts House of Representatives, September 28, October 6, 9, 14 17, 18, 19, 27, November 1, 1775. [387] Austin’s Gerry, I, 94-95; Works of John Adams, X, 37. [388] Amory’s Sullivan, II, 378-79, James Sullivan to Gerry, December 25, 1779. [389] Records of Massachusetts Council, November 14, December 9, December 12, 1775; Pickering’s Pickering, I, 79-80; Amory’s Sullivan, I, 63. [390] Records of General Court of Massachusetts, December 29, 1775. [391] Journals of Massachusetts House of Representatives, January 12, 1776. On January 11 the Council resolved that two ships, one of 36, and the other of 32 guns, should be built. On the same day both House and Council voted to recommit the resolution in order that the committee which prepared it might report on the expense to be incurred in building and fitting the two ships. It does not appear that further action was taken.—Records of Massachusetts Council, January 11, 1776. [392] Journals of Massachusetts House of Representatives, February 6, 1776; Records of Massachusetts Council, February 7, 1776. [393] Journals of Massachusetts House of Representatives, February 16, 1776. [394] Journals of Massachusetts House of Representatives, February 7, 1776; Records of Massachusetts Council, February 8, 1776. [395] Journals of Massachusetts House of Representatives, April 12, 1776. [396] Ibid., April 27, 1776. [397] Journals of Massachusetts House of Representatives, April 29, 1776; Records of Massachusetts Council, April 29, 1776. [398] Ibid. (Records), July 26, 1776. [399] Goodell, Laws of Massachusetts, February 14, April 13, May 8, 1776. [400] Records of Massachusetts Council, October 29, 1776. The naval documents introduced in the narrative on the Massachusetts navy are typical of similar ones in other states. [401] Resolves of Massachusetts, October 26, 1776. [402] Winsor’s Memorial History of Boston, II, 543.