[169] Journals of Continental Congress, September 25, 1778.
[170] Harvard Historical Studies, X, L. C. Hatch, Administration of American Revolutionary Army, Chapter V, Pay and Half-pay.
[171] See Chapter I, page 45.
[172] Journals of Continental Congress, May 6, 1778.
[173] Journals of Continental Congress, August 19, 1778.
[174] Journals of Continental Congress, July 11, 1776.
[175] Edward Field’s Esek Hopkins, 154-56, quotes words of Hopkins in his own defence. Washington feared the plan of the Naval Committee would fail as the enemy must know it, so long had the fleet been fitting for sea.—Ford, Writings of Washington, III, 319.
[176] Journals of Continental Congress, August 12, 15, and 16, 1776.
[177] Quoted in Field’s Esek Hopkins, 158.
[178] Edward Field’s Esek Hopkins, Chapter VI, Conspiracy and Dismissal, contains many original documents.