The Navy of the American Revolution

by Charles Oscar Paullin

[73] Ibid., 11, 14.

[74] Journals of Continental Congress, March 26, 1776; Journals of New York Committee of Safety, March 18, 1776.

[75] Journals of New York Committee of Safety, April 24, 1776.

[76] Force, American Archives, 5th, I, 1186, 1277; Journals of New York Provincial Congress, March 16, 1776; Journals of Continental Congress, May 2, 1776.

[77] Journals of Continental Congress, May 22, May 25, June 17, 1776; Ford, Writings of Washington, IV, 101.

[78] Force, American Archives, 4th, VI, 1107-08.

[79] Ibid., 5th, I, 1186-87.

[80] Colonial Records of Connecticut, XV, 500, 503. The rolls of these three Connecticut companies, containing eighty-five names, will be found in the Connecticut Historical Society Collections, VIII, 235-37.

[81] Force, American Archives, 5th, II, 186.

[82] Ibid., I, 563.