The Navy of the American Revolution

by Charles Oscar Paullin

Tucker, Samuel. Papers, in the Harvard Library, Cambridge. Valuable for the career of Samuel Tucker, a captain in the Continental navy. The best of the papers have been published by J. H. Sheppard in his Life of Samuel Tucker, 1868. (See entry under Sheppard.)

Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Division of Manuscripts, Library of Congress

Of noteworthy importance is a list of commissioned officers in the Continental navy, far more complete than any yet published.

PRINTED SOURCES

Adams, John. Works, 10 vols. Boston, 1856.

Almost the only source for the debates in Congress on naval affairs in the fall of 1775. His Notes on Debates are more reliable than his Autobiography.

Appleton. Cyclopedia of American Biography. 7 vols. New York, 1898-1900.

Contains a little information of interest to students of naval history.

Annual Register for 1775-1783. London.

Of slight value for naval history.