[376] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 50, pp. 1-13, Pollock to President of Congress, a résumé of Pollock’s services as commercial agent at New Orleans.
[377] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 50, p. 66.
[378] Ibid., 50, pp. 77-81.
[379] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 50, p. 97.
[380] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 50, p. 120, Copy of Capitulation of Inhabitants of the Settlements on Lake Pontchartrain, dated October 16, 1779, with signatures of nineteen men.
[381] Records and Papers of Continental Congress, 50, pp. 123-25, Pollock to Pickles, January 20, 1780.
[382] Force Transcripts, Library of Congress, 137, 2, p. 281; 37, p. 95.
PART II
THE STATE NAVIES
CHAPTER XI
THE NAVY OF MASSACHUSETTS
With the exception of New Jersey and Delaware, each of the thirteen original states during the Revolution owned one or more armed vessels. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina had the largest fleets. New Hampshire with its one ship and Georgia with its four galleys just escaped from being in the same class with New Jersey and Delaware. The navies of Rhode Island, New York, and North Carolina were small. The navy of no one state was so large as that of Congress. The total number of state craft, however, greatly exceeded the number of vessels in the Continental navy. The state vessels on the average were smaller and not so well armed as the Continental vessels. The states generally had less means for naval purposes at their disposal than had Congress, and were therefore not so well able to build large vessels. Then, too, the chief need of each state for a navy was to defend its seaports, coasts, and trade. For such service small craft, adapted for running in and out of shallow harbors, rivers, and bays, was demanded. The states therefore provided themselves with armed boats of various sizes, galleys with and without sails, half-galleys, floating batteries, barges, and fire-ships. Besides such vessels as these, most of the states had a few larger and stouter sailing craft, mounting generally from ten to twenty guns, and fairly well fitted for deep-sea navigation. The one state whose deep-sea exceeded its inshore craft was Massachusetts.