[254] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 37, pp. 277, 281, Reports of Board of Admiralty, July 24, July 26, 1780.
[255] Journals of Continental Congress, January 30, 1777; January 15, January 22, 1780; Jameson, Essays in the Constitutional History of the United States, Chapter I, Predecessor of the Supreme Court; Carson, Supreme Court of the United States, Part I, 50-57.
[256] Marine Committee Letter Book, Board of Admiralty to Board of Treasury, January 7, 1780.
[257] Ibid., Board of Admiralty, to Commissary-General of Issues, August 21, 1780.
[258] Ibid., Board of Admiralty to Holker, August 29, 1780.
[259] Records and Papers of New London Country Historical Society, part IV, I, 47-56; Boston Gazette, July 24, 1780; Gomer Williams, Liverpool Privateers, 272-75.
[260] List of Officers in Revolutionary Navy, miscellaneous manuscripts in the Library of Congress.
[261] See Chapter VIII, Secretary of Marine and Agent of Marine.
[262] Journals of Continental Congress, July 9, 1781.
[263] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 78, XIV, 445-47.