Note 10 — Chapter I · THE NAVAL COMMITTEE
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Ibid., October 30, 1775. John Adams, in his Notes on Debates for October 30, 1775, reports George Ross of Pennsylvania as saying: “We can’t get seamen to man four vessels. We could not get seamen to man our boats, our galleys.” Adams also tells us that three of the Virginia members, Wythe, Nelson, and Lee, were “for fitting out four ships.”—Works of John Adams, II, 484.