Pennsylvania’s Revolutionary Governments, Pennsylvania Navy Board Minute Books, February 13-September 24, 1777., This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education., Arranged chronologically by date of each meeting. A record of meetings of the Navy Board. Information found within this record pertains to the Navy Board’s responsibility to care for the vessels of war, armed boats, ships and fire rafts, to defend on water, to follow up on an enemy attack and to repel the enemy, to control stores of the state to make this possible as well as to keep and defend fortifications on Fort Island, to examine the Delaware River channel and to sink ships of the enemy. Minutes mention date and locations of meetings, and issues debated and resolved by the Board in meetings, such as payment of wages or reimbursement for service and materials, resolves made concerning boats and fire rafts used in defense of rivers, petitions brought before the Board and care provided for injured men. For more details, please see the published Guide to the microfilm of Pennsylvania’s revolutionary governments, 1775-1790 (record group 27) in the Pennsylvania State Archives: https://archive.org/details/guidetoofrecords00penn/page/n3/mode/2up
