Sherburne, J. H. Life of John Paul Jones. New York, 1825, 1851.
A fair account.
Sparks, Jared. American Biography, 2nd Ser. Vol. IX. Gammell’s Life of Samuel Ward. Boston, 1846.
Contains a bit of important information with reference to the founding of the navy.
Sparks, Jared. Gouverneur Morris. 3 vols. Boston, 1832.
Volume I contains Morris’s description of an ideal secretary of the navy.
Spears, J. R. History of Our Navy. 5 vols. New York, 1897-99.
The account of the Continental navy is somewhat popular.
Staples, W. R. Annals of Providence. Providence, 1843.
Of some value for 1775 and 1776.