The Navy of the American Revolution

by Charles Oscar Paullin

Deane Papers. Collections of the New York Historical Society. 5 vols. New York, 1886-90.

Valuable for the naval services of Silas Deane in France.

Emmons, Lieutenant G. F. Navy of the United States. Washington, 1853.

Names of the Continental vessels and their prizes arranged in tables. Treatment statistical. Valuable, but far from complete. Privateers of the Revolution similarly treated.

Field, Edward. Esek Hopkins. Providence, 1898.

Valuable. Prints many important Hopkins papers.

Field, Edward. State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. 3 vols. Boston and Syracuse.

Contains some additional information relating to the early life of Esek Hopkins.

Force, Peter. American Archives. 9 vols. Folio. Washington, 1837-53.

A source of very great very great value for naval history during 1775 and 1776. Prints the chief public records for these years, together with important letters and miscellaneous papers.