The Navy of the American Revolution

by Charles Oscar Paullin

[356] Stevens’s Facsimiles, 1562, Lord Weymouth to Lord Stormont, July 4, 1777.

[357] Stevens’s Facsimiles, 1677; Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, II, 364-66, Vergennes to Commissioners at Paris, July 16, 1777, and Franklin and Deane to Vergennes, July 17, 1777.

[358] C. H. Jones, Captain Gustavus Conyngham, 15-17; Outlook for January 3, 1903, 71-83, James Barnes, Tragedy of the Lost Commission; Hale’s Franklin in France, I, 139; Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, II, 375, 377, 406.

[359] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, II, 471-72.

[360] Sherburne’s John Paul Jones, 43-53, Jones to Commissioners, May 27, 1778; Clowes, Royal Navy, IV, 11-13.

[361] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, III, 242.

[362] Sherburne’s John Paul Jones, 111-125, Jones to Franklin, October 3, 1779, giving an account of cruise; Clowes, Royal Navy, IV, 33-39.

[363] Wharton, Diplomatic Correspondence, III, 375-77, 378-79, 535, 547-49, 562-63; IV, 293; Bigelow’s Franklin, VII, 108-09.

[364] Hale, Franklin in France, I, 327-28; Chapter XVII, Captain Landais, prints many original letters connected with the dispute.

[365] Hale, Franklin in France, I, 330-31.