The Navy of the American Revolution

by Charles Oscar Paullin

[32] Works of John Adams, III, 12.

[33] M. I. J. Griffin, Commodore John Barry, 19; Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd, II, 668. In December, 1774, the “Black Prince” belonged to Thomas Willing, Robert Morris, Thomas Morris, John Wharton, and John Nixon.—Pa. Magazine of History and Biography, October, 1904, 495.

[34] Edward Field’s Esek Hopkins, 78-9.

[35] British Marine Encyclopedia, in Hogg’s Naval Magazine for 1801.

[36] Edward Field, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, II, 422.

[37] Edward Field’s Esek Hopkins, 134, quotes from Drake’s Life of Knox.

[38] Sands, Life and Correspondence of John Paul Jones, 32.

[39] Journals of Continental Congress, December 22, 1775.

[40] Force, American Archives, 4th, IV, 360; letter to Earl of Dartmouth, dated Maryland, Dec. 20, 1775.

[41] Journals of Continental Congress, December 2, 1775, January 9 and 16, 1776. The Naval Committee spent $134,333 on the eight vessels which they fitted out.—Journals of Continental Congress, September 19, 1776.