[523] These vessels were the brig “Adventure;” the schooners “Hornet,” “Peace and Plenty,” “Revenge,” and “Speedwell;” the sloop “Agatha;” and the armed boat “Molly.” The lists of vessels here given were compiled from the Virginia naval archives. [524] These vessels were the galleys “Henry,” “Hero,” “Lewis,” “Manly,” “Norfolk Revenge,” “Page,” and “Safeguard;” the brigs “Liberty,” “Mosquito,” “Northampton,” and “Raleigh;” the schooners “Liberty” and “Adventure;” the sloop “Scorpion;” and the armed boats “Liberty” and “Patriot.” The schooner “Liberty” was taken into the trading fleet as the “Hornet.” It is believed that this list does not contain the vessels in Mason’s Potomac fleet. [525] The names of the vessels not mentioned in the text, which were added during 1777, 1778, and 1779 were the brigs “Greyhound” and “Hampton” and the armed boats “Nicholson,” “Experiment,” “Fly,” and “Dolphin.” The names of several other vessels which were probably used in trade, occur during this period. Some of the ships are at times referred to as galleys. [526] Files of Virginia Gazette; Journals of Virginia Convention, May 8, 1776; Virginia Historical Register I, 77; Calendar of Virginia State Papers, III, 365. [527] Almon’s Remembrancer, 1779, 289-95, account given by British officers; Records of State of North Carolina, XIV, 85-86, 94-95. Some of the vessels destroyed at Gosport probably belonged to Congress. [528] Hening, Statutes of Virginia, X, 15-18, 123. [529] Ibid., 278, 291-92. [530] Hening, IX, 537; X, 23-24, 217. [531] Hening, X, 296-99. [532] Hening, X, 379-86. [533] Ford, Writings of Jefferson, II, 392. [534] Ibid., 443-44. [535] Virginia Calendar of State Papers, I, 588; II, 74. [536] Almon’s Remembrancer, 1781, II, 62-63, Arnold to Clinton, Petersburg, May 12, 1781. [537] Hening, Statutes of Virginia, X, 450; Virginia Navy Papers, I, and II. [538] Hening, Statutes of Virginia, XI, 42-44. In March, 1783, the three commissioners were Paul Loyall, Thomas Brown, and Thomas Newton, jr.—Virginia Calendar of State Papers, III, 456. [539] Virginia Navy Papers, II. [540] Journals of Continental Congress, October 3, 1783. CHAPTER XV THE NAVY OF SOUTH CAROLINA[541] South Carolina employed her first armed vessels in obtaining a supply of gunpowder, the need of which article was so keenly felt throughout the colonies during the first years of the Revolution. In July, 1775, the South Carolina Council of Safety sent Captains John Barnwell and John Joyner of Beaufort with forty men in two large and well-armed barges to assist the Georgians in taking an English supply-ship, which was daily expected at Savannah. The enterprise was wholly successful. The ship with its cargo of sixteen thousand pounds of gunpowder was captured by the combined forces of the two colonies. South Carolina sent four thousand pounds of her share of the powder to the Continental Congress at Philadelphia.[542]