The Navy of the American Revolution

by Charles Oscar Paullin

Boston Gazette for 1775-1783. Boston.

Of great value for a history of the movements of the Continental vessels. In its advertisements of libeled prizes, one of the very best sources for the work of the Massachusetts privateers.

British Marine Encyclopedia, in Hogg’s Naval Magazine for 1801. London.

Excellent for definitions of naval terms used in the British navy.

Buell, A. C. Paul Jones, Founder of the American Navy. 2 vols. New York, 1900.

Very interesting; attractive style. Contains many inaccuracies. Chapter II, Volume I, entitled, Founding of the American Navy, is in no small part fiction.

Canadian Archives, report on, for 1895. Ottawa.

Under the subject Prince Edward Island, will be found references to Broughton and Selman’s expedition in 1775.

Carson, H. L. Supreme Court of the United States. Philadelphia, 1902.

Contains a brief account of the prize courts of the Revolution.