The Navy of the American Revolution

by Charles Oscar Paullin

A valuable source of information for the work of the Navy Board at Boston. A number of important letters and documents are printed.

Root, M. P. Chapter Sketches of Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution. New Haven, 1901.

Contains the best account of the life of Nathaniel Shaw, jr., naval agent at New London.

Royal Navy, List of. New York, 1782.

Sands, R. Life and Correspondence of John Paul Jones. New York, 1830.

Valuable reprints.

Scribner’s Magazine for 1898. New York. John Paul Jones in the American Revolution, by Captain A. T. Mahan.

Contains a technical account of the fight between the “Bon Homme Richard” and the “Serapis.”

Sheppard, J. H. Commodore Samuel Tucker. Boston, 1868.

A good account of Tucker’s life. Reprints the best of the Tucker papers found in the Harvard Library.