Volume V contains the legislation of Massachusetts with reference to prize courts. The notes to the laws are a valuable guide to the sources of the events which led to the passage of the laws.
Maclay, E. S. History of American Privateering. New York, 1899.
Of value for the Revolutionary privateers of Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Historical Society Collections. 67 vols. Boston, 1792-1894.
Contains references to the Penobscot expedition.
Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings. 30 vols. Boston, 1859-94.
Contains information upon the Penobscot expedition.
Massachusetts, Journals of the House of Representatives for 1775-1783.
Contemporaneous print. Incomplete. The journals found in the state library may be supplemented by those found in the library of the Boston Athenaeum.
Massachusetts, Records of the Council for 1775-1776.