The Navy of the American Revolution

by Charles Oscar Paullin

[244] Journals of Continental Congress, July 11, 1780; Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 37, pp. 261-63, Report of Board of Admiralty, July 10, 1780.

[245] Journals of Continental Congress, August 7, 1780.

[246] Ibid., February 8, 1780.

[247] See Chapter X, pages 298-300.

[248] Journals of Continental Congress, May 4, 1780.

[249] Ibid., April 20, 1780.

[250] Journals of Continental Congress, May 2, November 27, 1780, April 7, 1781; Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 37, pp. 225-41.

[251] Journals of Continental Congress, October 5, 1780; Wharton’s Diplomatic Correspondence, III, 860, 867.

[252] Journals of Continental Congress, March 27, 1781.

[253] Force Transcripts, Library of Congress, 37, pp. 241-44. The Board of Admiralty probably had in mind the sixth as well as the ninth article of the Articles of Confederation.