FOOTNOTES:
[634] Acts and Resolves of Rhode Island, June, 1775.
[635] Staples, Annals of Providence, 265.
[636] Force, American Archives, 4th, III, 69.
[637] Ibid., 36-37, 461, 653; Collections of Rhode Island Historical Society, VI, 134-35; see Chapter I, page 55.
[638] Acts and Resolves of Rhode Island, August, 1775.
[639] Providence Gazette, April 20, April 27, 1776; Acts and Resolves of Rhode Island, November, December, 1776; Arnold, History of Rhode Island, II, 397.
[640] Rhode Island Colonial Records, VII, 582.
[641] Acts and Resolves of Rhode Island, December, 1776, May, 1778.
[642] Acts and Resolves of Rhode Island, March, May, 1776.
[643] W. P. Sheffield, Rhode Island Privateers and Privateersmen.
[644] Acts and Resolves of Rhode Island, June, 1777.
[645] Publications of Rhode Island Historical Society, VIII, papers of William Vernon and Navy Board, 249, 250.
[646] Journals of Rhode Island Council of War, July 17, August 24, November 11, 1781; Acts and Resolves of Rhode Island, February, 1779.
[647] Providence Gazette, August 14, September 25, 1779; Connecticut Gazette, June 24, 1779; Pennsylvania Packet, September 9, 1779.
[648] Acts and Resolves of Rhode Island, May and October, 1781.
[649] Journals of New York Provincial Congress, December 20, 1775, March 9, 1776.
[650] Journals of New York Provincial Congress, March 11, 1776.
[651] Journals of New York Committee of Safety, April 25, 1776.
[652] Journals of New York Committee of Safety, April 19, 1776; Fernow, New York in Revolution, 530-33.
[653] Journals of New York Provincial Congress, January 22, 1776.
[654] Journals of New York Committee of Safety, April 24, May 10, 1776.
[655] Ibid., September 21, September 24, October 7, 1776.
[656] Ibid., April 19, 1776.
[657] Journals of New York Committee of Safety, February 13, 1777; Journals of New York Provincial Congress, April 1, 1777.
[658] Journals of New York Provincial Congress, August 16, 1776.
[659] Journals of New York Committee of Safety, January 15, 1777.
[660] New York Constitution of 1777. See Carson, Supreme Court of United States, p. 45, for further references to the admiralty legislation of New York.
[661] New Hampshire Archives, VIII, 106, 186, 195. In March, 1776, the New Hampshire House of Representatives appointed a committee of three to look out for an armed vessel to guard the coast. It is believed that no vessel was procured.
[662] Force, American Archives, 5th, I, 90-96.
[663] Minutes of Provincial Congress and Council of Safety of New Jersey, 1775-1776, 510, 520, 525, 528.
[664] Minutes of Provincial Congress and Council of Safety of New Jersey, 1775-1776, 370-71, 396, 479.