The Navy of the American Revolution

by Charles Oscar Paullin

[234] Marine Committee Letter Book, Board of Admiralty to Navy Board at Boston, December 10, 1779.

[235] Journals of Continental Congress, January 22, 1780.

[236] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 78, XIV, 309, Lewis to President of Congress, March 21, 1780.

[237] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 78, XIV, 337-43, 349, Lewis to President of Congress, June 6, June 12, 1780.

[238] Journals of Continental Congress, June 23, 1780.

[239] Force Transcripts, Library of Congress, 37, pp. 291, 294, Lewis to President of Congress, November 4, 6, 1780.

[240] Force Transcripts, Library of Congress, 37, p. 125, Board of Admiralty to President of Congress, August 14, 1780; Journals of Continental Congress, August 18, 1780.

[241] Journals of Continental Congress, December 5, 1780; January 11, 1781.

[242] Ibid., May 7, 1781.

[243] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 37, pp. 175-77, Report of Board of Admiralty, January 24, 1780; Journals of Continental Congress, January 22, January 25, 1780.