The Navy of the American Revolution

by Charles Oscar Paullin

[280] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 28, p. 147, Report of Committee on July 18; Journals of Continental Congress, July 18, 1781.

[281] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 28, p. 157; Journals of Continental Congress, August 29, 1781.

[282] Journals of Continental Congress, September 7, 1781.

[283] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 137, I, 133, Morris to President of Congress, September 8, 1781.

[284] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 137, II, 183.

[285] M. I. J. Griffin, Commodore John Barry, 169.

[286] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 137, I, 233, Morris to President of Congress, November 17, 1781; Journals of Continental Congress, November 20, 1781.

[287] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 137, I, 543, Report of Morris, June 3, 1782; Journals of Continental Congress, June 12, 1782.

[288] The 29th article of Adams’s rules as adopted by Congress in 1775 fixed penalties for desertion and cowardice. It is not likely that the numbering was changed. I know of no earlier instance of the sentencing of a seaman in the American navy to be hanged.

[289] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 137, I, 367, Finding of Court Martial, dated June 28, 1781; 365, Morris to President of Congress, March 25, 1782, containing extract from Brown’s letter.