[53] Moylan had been for some months a member of Washington’s official household before he was appointed aide-de-camp in March, 1776.
[54] Ford, Writings of Washington, III, 382-83.
[55] Ibid., 231-32, Washington to Joseph Reed, November 20, 1775.
[56] Ford, Writings of Washington, III, 261-62, Washington to President of Congress, December 4, 1775.
[57] This calculation is made chiefly from accounts of the vessels found in Force’s American Archives and Ford’s Writings of Washington.
[58] Ford, Writings of Washington, III, 252 and note; Letters of John Adams, Massachusetts Historical Society, William Tudor to John Adams, December 3, 1775.
[59] Boston Gazette, July 6, 1776.
[60] Force, American Archives, 4th, IV, 451-52, Memorial of Philip Callbeck and Thomas Wright; Ford, Writings of Washington, III, 175 and note, 261-62 and note. H. E. Waite, Origin of American Navy, 26-28. Report on Canadian Archives, 1895, Prince Edward Island, 15-16. The number of vessels captured by Broughton and Selman on this cruise has been given by Elbridge Gerry as ten and by Selman as seven. Both figures are probably too high.
[61] Ford, Writings of Washington, III, 165, 203-04, 213-214, 251-58, 274.
[62] Journals of Continental Congress, December 20, 1775.