[90] Journals of Continental Congress, October 3, 1775; Force, American Archives 4th, III, 1888-91; Works of John Adams, II, 462.
[91] Works of John Adams, II, 463-4.
[92] Journals of Continental Congress, October 16, November 16, 1775.
[93] Gammell, Life of Samuel Ward, in Sparks’s American Biography, 2nd, IX, 316.
[94] Journals of Continental Congress, December 9, 1775.
[95] Ibid., December 11, 1775.
[96] Ibid., December 13, 1775.
[97] Journals of Continental Congress, December 14, 1775.
[98] Journals of Continental Congress. January 25, September 19, 1776. See Ford’s new edition of the Journals.
[99] The Secretary of the Marine Committee was John Brown.