Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

Communication.—A number of gentlemen from this city, visited the United States' ship Washington, com. Chauncey, off Annapolis on Saturday last, and were received by the commodore with great politeness; and as far as their short stay permitted, they examined the ship, and were highly gratified with this noble specimen of American naval architecture, combining force with elegance and strength with neatness—a crew of about six hundred healthy young men, and apparently in a state of perfect happiness, content and discipline, who worked the guns with the facility of a company maneuvering their muskets.—The decks were clean, and the mess kids, cans, and tin cups were placed in rows with two bibles upon them for each mess, and the whole together formed a subject of the highest gratification to the patriot, the man of science and the curious citizens who made the excursion in one of our Steam Boats.

Ibid.