The Navy of the American Revolution

by Charles Oscar Paullin

[483] Ibid., XI, Minutes of Council of Safety, February 13, February 19, 1777.

[484] Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, XI, Minutes of Supreme Executive Council, March 13, 1777. The members of the Navy Board as constituted by the Supreme Executive Council were as follows: Andrew Caldwell, Joseph Blewer, Joseph Marsh, Emanuel Eyre, Robert Ritchie, Paul Cox, Samuel Massey, William Bradford, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Samuel Morris, jr., and Thomas Barclay.

[485] Captains Nicholas Biddle, Thomas Read and Charles Alexander, and Lieutenant James Josiah resigned from the Pennsylvania navy to enter the Continental navy.

[486] Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd, I, 416-24.

[487] Wallace’s William Bradford, 252-53, 366-67; Pennsylvania Archives, 1st, VI, 21, 47-50.

[488] Pennsylvania Archives, 1st, V, 663, 721; VI, 235; VII, 165.

[489] Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd, I, 425-31.

[490] Pennsylvania Archives, 1st, VI, 204.

[491] Ibid., 332-33.

[492] Almon’s Remembrancer, 1778, 148-50.