[612] North Carolina Colonial Records, X, 831-32, 848-49, 875-77; North Carolina State Records, XI, 356. [613] North Carolina Colonial Records, X, 834-36. [614] North Carolina State Records, XII, 173, 244, 623, 796. [615] Force, American Archives, 4th, V, 1357. [616] These vessels were at first called galleys. [617] North Carolina Colonial Records, X, 981. [618] North Carolina State Records, XIV, 19, 126. [619] Ibid., XIII, iii-iv. [620] Ibid., 354. [621] North Carolina State Records, XIV, 154-55. [622] Ibid., XII, 574-75, 742, 746; XIII, 138-39, 171-72. In June, 1779, Governor Jefferson of Virginia wrote to Governor Caswell offering to sell both the “Caswell” and “Washington.” Virginia had found the trade through Ocracoke inconvenient.—North Carolina State Records, XIV, 126, 136. [623] Ibid., XIII, 132, 171. [624] North Carolina State Records, XIII, 138-39, 174-75. [625] Ibid., XIV, 136. [626] Force, American Archives, 4th, V, 1339. [627] Jones, History of Georgia, II, 181. [628] Journals of Continental Congress, July 5, 1776. [629] Collections of Georgia Historical Society, V, part I; Proceedings of Georgia Council of Safety, 96, 101-02, 113. [630] Jones, History of Georgia, II, 269. [631] McCall, History of Georgia, II, 137-38; Moultrie, Memoirs of American Revolution, II, 375. [632] McCall, History of Georgia, II, 179, 224-25. [633] Jameson, Essays in Constitutional History of United States, 10. CHAPTER XVII THE MINOR NAVIES OF THE NORTHERN STATES Rhode Island was the first colony to undertake a defence by means of armed vessels. Her initial legislation preceded that of the Continental Congress by almost four months. During 1775 her coasts and trade were annoyed by the vessels of the enemy. In the early summer the conduct of Captain James Wallace, the commander of His Majesty’s frigate “Rose,” was especially vexatious and insulting. On June 13 Nicholas Cooke, Deputy-Governor of Rhode Island, in accordance with a resolution of the General Assembly, wrote to Wallace demanding the immediate restoration of certain captured vessels, and especially of two packets belonging to citizens of Providence. The acts of Wallace were obviously in the minds of the members of the General Assembly, when, on June 15, it ordered the Committee of Safety to charter and fit out two suitable vessels for the defence of the trade of Rhode Island.