The Navy of the American Revolution

by Charles Oscar Paullin

[493] Scharf and Westcott, History of Philadelphia, I, 300.

[494] Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, XI, Minutes of Supreme Executive Council, August 14, August 16, December 9, 1778. The capture of the sloop “Active” by the “Convention” in the fall of 1778, gave rise to the most celebrated prize case of the Revolution.—Jameson, Essays in Constitutional History of United States, 17-21.

[495] Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd, I, 255.

[496] Pennsylvania Archives, 1st, VII, 320, 476; Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, XI, 724, 750; XII, 150; Scharf and Westcott, History of Philadelphia, I, 403.

[497] J. F. Jameson, Essays in Constitutional History of United States, 9.

[498] Laws of Pennsylvania, September 9, 1778, March 8, 1780.

[499] Ibid., September 17, 1777; March 1, 1780.

[500] Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd, I, 388-402.

[501] Scharf and Westcott, History of Philadelphia, I, 421-22.

[502] Laws of Pennsylvania, April 9, April 15, 1782; Mary Barney, Memoirs of Commodore Barney, 303-04. Pennsylvania Archives, 1st, IX, 531-32. The three Commissioners were John Patton, Francis Gurney, and William Allibone.